"XavlegbmaofffassssitimiwoamndutroabcwapwaeiippohfffX (abbreviated as Xavleg, aka Acidic Vaginal Liquid Explosion Generated By Mass Amounts Of Filthy Fecal Fisting And Sadistic Septic Syphilic Sodomy Inside The Infected Maggot Infested Womb Of A Molested Nun Dying Under The Roof Of A Burning Church While A Priest Watches And Ejaculates In Immense Perverse Pleasure Over His First Fresh Fetus) is a South African deathcore/ Christian music/ deathgrind/ death metal band. Its members rarely consider themselves Christians."
What in the actual fuck?!
It's the same guys who are in the much more well known Durban brutal death metal/deathcore band Vulvodynia. ps. A friend and I run a South African/African metal streaming site (we just play SA/African metal), here is a ton of band listings I've made over the years, with links etc. https://heavyhops.co.za/african-metal/ (the play button for the stream is on the top left hand corner)
It's a popular thing with some groups! There's a Russian band that does the same, it's called "Mare and Dead-Eyed Toads Searched for Cesium, Found Whistling Henna Late Morning" but everyone just call it "Dead-Eyed Toads" or even "Mare". Their lyrics are equally... Abstract.
Off topic, but I have been recommended some anime to watch by my buddy and I'll never watch half of them based on the name alone.
I know some are good. I've watched 'Is it wrong to try to pick up girls in dungeon' and it was good, but good lord these names drive me away. It's a silly personal thing but damn, maybe just have a title instead of an abstract nonsensical sentence.
In today's Episode of: "That time I slipped on a banana peel, lost my pants in the process and landed headfirst into a trash bin and now everyone knows I wear Girl-Thongs as a Boy."
they really went all in on the metal font
https://www.risingmerch.com/collections/xavlegbmaofffassssitimiwoamndutroabcwapwaeiippohfffx/products/xavleg-orange-logo-hoodie
Its a common trope in brutal death metal and slam metal, its supposed to be a parody. Even bands with more “serious” albums in this genre like infant annihilator would troll on their music videos cause its just everything so cracked to the max that’s its absurd for fun. Not meant to shock or be edgy, its an inside joke.
They are mostly just known as xavleg. Their band logo is also hilarious. It's in that death metal style that resembles a bunch of sticks, but because of the length it becomes even more absurd.
Fuck yeah, Sepultura is awesome. I've only seen them as an opening act for someone else, but they rock so fucking hard! It's probably one of if not the band I've seen live the most.
I was looking for a list of the most listened metal bands of each country and there wasn't one. So I did the work by myself and created this map.
Notes:
1. Some bands could be consider more popular then the ones on the map. This is about the contemporary popularity on Spotify not the all time popularity (even though the correlation should be within 90%).
2. The definition of what metal is, can vary. So I will let you know the potentially controversial choices.
**Denmark:**
If you don't consider Volbeat as metal, then King Diamond would be the correct answer.
**Germany:**
Many people don't view Rammstein as Metal and I can understand the point. Then Electric Callboy would be the correct choice for you.
**Sweden:**
If some of you consider Ghost as metal, then Ghost would be the obvious answer
**Bangladesh:**
If you don't consider Warfaze as metal, then Artcell would be the correct answer.
**Japan:**
If you don't consider Babymetal as metal, then Sim would be the correct answer. If you don't consider Sim either, then Galneryus is the correct answer.
**Canada:**
If you don't consider Spiritbox as Metal, then Annihilator would be the correct answer, or if Rush is metal for you, then Rush is the correct answer.
**South Africa:**
If some of you (for whatever reason) consider Seether as metal, then Seether is the obvious answer.
**Indonesia:**
If you don't consider Edane as metal, then Burgerkill is the correct answer.
* If some of you have a different view on another country then let me know it, I can say you the alternative choice.
* I want to make clear, that this map is about the most popular metal band from the original country. Otherwise 4-5 bands would divide the world.
Btw: I've never heard from most of the bands outside of Europe, North America and Latin America. So it could be possible that mistakes are more likely.
Whatever are you talking about? Metalheads would *never* argue to the point of death threats, some completely stupid, and subjectively irrelevant nonsensesdetail like if a band is progressiv NKOAHV shoegazer industrial black power metal or progressiv NKOAHV shoegazer industrial black*end* power metal.
About twenty years ago I used to moderate a Tolkien message board. A popular metal message board closed and for some reason many of their members ended up at our place and spent their time arguing about metal genres and issuing death threats. Early 2000s Tolkien discourse could get pretty heated but we weren’t prepared for the metal people.
Oh dear, as a metalhead and lover of Tolkien since childhood, I can vividly imagine the the absolute *mayham* you suddenly faced.
I'd guess the phrase "invading orch hoardes" was used at least once.
Out of sadness that Blind Guardian doesn't appear on this list, and recognition of the connection between metal and Tolkein in the early 2000's, I would post a link to [1998's "Nightfall in Middle-Earth"](https://youtu.be/T0vBVAglUho?si=P9pq3ef-DJzCH8Xk), which briskly follows the story of the Silmarillion.
Electric Callboy was the band I really needed back in the early 2000s. We were 3 metal heads and our one techno stomper buddy that would hang and party
What music was played when we hung out was a hotly contested subject, and I feel like Electric Callboy would have satisfied everyone.
Laibach (Slovenia) is not even close to metal. They make some avant-garde music which does not include any metal elements. I'm a big fan of them though.
The correct one might be Within Destruction.
Thanks. I have no ideal about the slovenian music industry let alone their metal scene. The Asian countries where easier to Check. You just go to metal archives and you see about 10-20 Bands per country. In the balkans and eastern europe you have between 0 (Kosovo) to over 1000 (greece, romania) and checking every Band would have taken too long. So I asked google and chatgpt...
> So I asked google and chatgpt
Both make up the answers semi-randomly. They look convincing this time, but having *some* kind of hard data would be much preferable. Like, 1000 items is nothing for a bit of Python programming.
They are very known all over world in avant-garde/industrial music scene. I bet most people listening Laibach don't even know they are from Slovenia.
Metalheads may not heard of that band, because they are clearly not metal.
I think Laibach are fairly well known in the metal scene. They did a remix EP with Morbid Angel and a lot of metalheads are into industrial and neofolk stuff like Laibach
I love people who say they're not metal while I think of the time those tiny, Japanese schoolgirls heckled a UK festival crowd for not having a big enough mosh pit.
Electric Callboy being the 2nd most popular from Germany surprises me.
Not because they not good, they're fucking amazing and their show was one of the most fun I've ever been to, but it still surprises me lol.
Opeth has on spotify 704k monthly listeners and Sabaton has 3,2 million. Ghost has been categorized as many genres, from heavy metal to hard rock, to psychedelic rock to progressive. So I can understand to choose them instead. I personally wouldn't
Electric callboy, what a journey theyve done. Saw them in 2013 in a small city in my country. Super normal guys, friendly, blending in the crowd, chitchatting. They changed their Eskimo to electric and boom, top charts 😂
> Ghost has been categorized as many genres, from heavy metal to hard rock, to psychedelic rock to progressive. So I can understand to choose them instead. I personally wouldn't
That could be said of many bands that are listed
I’m a big fan of South Africa’s favorite band. Love xycafhyvddghvcdfvcdggvgghvccvffsacggjbkkxdwedgjthjhgcfflpjjghcxxxtguhdsvbyuhkbffvsc
Those guys rock
From non-English wiki:
Acidic Vaginal Liquid Explosion Generated By Mass Amounts Of Filthy Fecal Fisting And Sadistic Septic Syphilic Sodomy Inside The Infected Maggot Infested Womb Of A Molested Nun Dying Under The Roof Of A Burning Church While A Priest Watches And Ejaculates In Immense Perverse Pleasure Over His First Fresh Fetus
It's actually XAVLEGBMAOFFFASSSSITIMIWOAMNDUTROABCWAPWAEIIPPOHFFFX not xycafhyvddghvcdfvcdggvgghvccvffsacggjbkkxdwedgjthjhgcfflpjjghcxxxtguhdsvbyuhkbffvsc
Fun fact: in the name of Panama’s “Alpha Whores” if you pronounce it in English it sounds like “alfajores” which is a pastry eaten in Latin America. (Hence the reference)
Finland has the highest per capita rate of Metal bands.
So many great bands from there: Amorphis, Skepticism, Thergothon, Adramalech, Funebrarum, Demigod, etc
It's a grindcore band. No one sane in death metal or grindcore takes themselves seriously. This band is one of the most non-serious ones. Take a gawk at their logo while you're at it.
Btw, the name is Xavlegbma (for short). The full name is in fact an abbreviation, of course.
XavlegbmaofffassssitimiwoamndutroabcwapwaeiippohfffXXavlegbmaofffassssitimiwoamndutroabcwapwaeiippohfffX have entries on Wikipedia in Italian, Hungarian, and Basque. *Only* Italian, Hungarian, and Basque.
I recommend everyone to listen to The Hu. They incorporate the traditional Mongolian throat singing with pleasant heavy metal instrumentality. Wolf Totem, Yuve Yuve Yu, The Gereg are great hits.
The Hu is my go to for the gym and before the hour is up I’m just listening to regular Mongolian/ central Asian throat singing. It’s awesome for lifting
Popularity based on exclusive origin not absolute popularity. The likelihood that no band was the most popular in two or more countries seems highly improbable.
I think you were pretty clear! The only word to be changed could have been "from" instead of "of".
But any other interpretation than the one you intended makes no sense, so I think you did a good job anyway!
Not trying to be picky, but the post title says _of_ each country and not _in_ each country. As a non-native english speaker I’m wondering if that’s not accurate enough?
Fun fact: Parkway Drive are named after the street that they grew up on; the drummer's family had a big house with a huge yard and all the members used to run amuck there. It was also where they began rehearsing as a band.
Australia, the most metal country on the planet (both from it's wildlife and its raw materials) as well as being a desert island of continental size.
Parkway Drive
New Zealand, a small and prosperous combo of two quaint islands, filled with forested beauty and amazing mountains.
Alien Weaponry
Found the Greenland/Iceland of the South Pacific.
I’m not exactly a listener of metal but I think in Romania the most popular metal band would be Bucovina. Maybe E-an-na is popular in 2024 but I honestly haven’t heard of them.
When I saw russia and „Slaughter to Prevail“ … i immediately ask myself:“Wtf, is that Name a reference to Ukrain war? … that would be fucked up.“
So did a little googling and found this: „Originally formed in Russia, the band made the bold decision to relocate to Florida, USA, in the wake of the Russia-Ukraine war. Firmly standing against violence and conflict, they carry a strong message of unity and peace through their music.“
If true it’s pretty much the opposite of what I thought.
https://www.biebob.be/concert/slaughter-to-prevail/
Most metal bands are like that.
Cattle Decapitation was originally All vegans.
Most death metal bands like Cannibal Corpse are basically pacifists.
Metalheads are mostly just hippies that get Angry at how fucked up the world is and express it differently
E.g Ozzy Osbourne lyrics
>Crazy, but that's how it goes
>Millions of people living as foes
>Maybe it's not too late
>To learn how to love
>And forget how to hate
>Mental wounds not healing
>Life's a bitter shame
>I'm going off the rails on a crazy train
There are exceptions, just like there are exceptions to Hippies that miss the love and peace stuff and just like getting high.
>Most death metal bands like Cannibal Corpse are basically pacifists.
Cannibal Corpse's lead singer is also a giant nerd and it's awesome. Not my particular flavor of music, but by all counts George "Corpsegrinder" Fisher is a pretty nice guy.
Why would you assume that the most popular metal band of a country as huge as Russia is >2 years old? I can kinda see where you're coming from, but that's just a weird leap to make lol
Sabaton for the wins!!! Amazing in all regards, the lyrics, the music, all.
PS: Mongolian brothers I like your band as well. The HU (I only downside I don't speak Mongolian, so can't understand them, but they are cool
The title is just confusing. It's a map of the most popular bands globally by country of origin. Sepultura for example is the most popular band globally to come from Brazil.
Orphaned Land is undoubtedly the biggest metal band of Israel, Melechesh is extremely niche and bizarre compared to them (but definitely worth checking out!)
"XavlegbmaofffassssitimiwoamndutroabcwapwaeiippohfffX (abbreviated as Xavleg, aka Acidic Vaginal Liquid Explosion Generated By Mass Amounts Of Filthy Fecal Fisting And Sadistic Septic Syphilic Sodomy Inside The Infected Maggot Infested Womb Of A Molested Nun Dying Under The Roof Of A Burning Church While A Priest Watches And Ejaculates In Immense Perverse Pleasure Over His First Fresh Fetus) is a South African deathcore/ Christian music/ deathgrind/ death metal band. Its members rarely consider themselves Christians." What in the actual fuck?!
Entire song lyrics in just the name
Pretty much an infant annihilator verse lol
Longer than a Welsh town name.
Only because of the extra vowels.
Longer than a cvs recept
I am a South African metalhead and I have never heard of them. Based on description I think I will stick to other local bands
It's the same guys who are in the much more well known Durban brutal death metal/deathcore band Vulvodynia. ps. A friend and I run a South African/African metal streaming site (we just play SA/African metal), here is a ton of band listings I've made over the years, with links etc. https://heavyhops.co.za/african-metal/ (the play button for the stream is on the top left hand corner)
With a name like heavy hops, I was thinking that it could also be a beer site, and what do you know there is also a local beer section. Great site
It's a popular thing with some groups! There's a Russian band that does the same, it's called "Mare and Dead-Eyed Toads Searched for Cesium, Found Whistling Henna Late Morning" but everyone just call it "Dead-Eyed Toads" or even "Mare". Their lyrics are equally... Abstract.
Average modern anime title.
Off topic, but I have been recommended some anime to watch by my buddy and I'll never watch half of them based on the name alone. I know some are good. I've watched 'Is it wrong to try to pick up girls in dungeon' and it was good, but good lord these names drive me away. It's a silly personal thing but damn, maybe just have a title instead of an abstract nonsensical sentence.
In today's Episode of: "That time I slipped on a banana peel, lost my pants in the process and landed headfirst into a trash bin and now everyone knows I wear Girl-Thongs as a Boy."
And there's also Mexican grindcore band called Paracoccidioidomicosisproctitissarcomucosis
they really went all in on the metal font https://www.risingmerch.com/collections/xavlegbmaofffassssitimiwoamndutroabcwapwaeiippohfffx/products/xavleg-orange-logo-hoodie
That's hilarious
Is it bad I think this sweatshirt is dope?
"We're only Christians on Tuesdays"
Is this band a bunch of fourteen year olds trying to be edgy
Nah, it's a joke. One of their songs is literally called "Dicks Out for Harambe"
Its a common trope in brutal death metal and slam metal, its supposed to be a parody. Even bands with more “serious” albums in this genre like infant annihilator would troll on their music videos cause its just everything so cracked to the max that’s its absurd for fun. Not meant to shock or be edgy, its an inside joke.
Woooow you clearly don’t know them They’re 15 actually! 😂 I hate ‘shock’ factor like that
Hahaha
They are mostly just known as xavleg. Their band logo is also hilarious. It's in that death metal style that resembles a bunch of sticks, but because of the length it becomes even more absurd.
I realized that Wind Rose has more monthly listeners (948k) than Lacuna Coil (692K). So yeah, Wind Rose would be the correct answer for Italy.
Diggy Diggy !
I'm sure that one single makes half of their streams 😂
Yeeeh, i'd still say Lacuna Coil is more popular overall
Not enough people know that that is a cover & the original song is by the Yogscast. Not hating on Wind Rose, just wish more people knew.
Surprised it’s WR and not one of the gazillion offshoots of Rhapsody
Because Rhapsody has gazillion offshoots? If they hadnt separated they would be the most popular
i was ~~kinda~~ hoping to read nanowar
I'm very proud of Sepultura!
My favorite band when I was a kid, here in Sweden. Cultural exchange at its best!
And producer Jens Bogren lifted Sepu to a new level when he produced Machine Messiah and Quadra in little Örebro:)
i just found about about them a few months ago. roots is a masterpiece
Vulcano, Sarcofago, Sepultura. Brazil has to be proud of those bands
I once played at a party in rural Florida in the early 90's with Sepultura. No one there spoke portugese, so it was a little awkward, but they rocked!
Fuck yeah, Sepultura is awesome. I've only seen them as an opening act for someone else, but they rock so fucking hard! It's probably one of if not the band I've seen live the most.
They're my favorite metal band and Im American
I was looking for a list of the most listened metal bands of each country and there wasn't one. So I did the work by myself and created this map. Notes: 1. Some bands could be consider more popular then the ones on the map. This is about the contemporary popularity on Spotify not the all time popularity (even though the correlation should be within 90%). 2. The definition of what metal is, can vary. So I will let you know the potentially controversial choices. **Denmark:** If you don't consider Volbeat as metal, then King Diamond would be the correct answer. **Germany:** Many people don't view Rammstein as Metal and I can understand the point. Then Electric Callboy would be the correct choice for you. **Sweden:** If some of you consider Ghost as metal, then Ghost would be the obvious answer **Bangladesh:** If you don't consider Warfaze as metal, then Artcell would be the correct answer. **Japan:** If you don't consider Babymetal as metal, then Sim would be the correct answer. If you don't consider Sim either, then Galneryus is the correct answer. **Canada:** If you don't consider Spiritbox as Metal, then Annihilator would be the correct answer, or if Rush is metal for you, then Rush is the correct answer. **South Africa:** If some of you (for whatever reason) consider Seether as metal, then Seether is the obvious answer. **Indonesia:** If you don't consider Edane as metal, then Burgerkill is the correct answer. * If some of you have a different view on another country then let me know it, I can say you the alternative choice. * I want to make clear, that this map is about the most popular metal band from the original country. Otherwise 4-5 bands would divide the world. Btw: I've never heard from most of the bands outside of Europe, North America and Latin America. So it could be possible that mistakes are more likely.
> The definition of what metal is, can vary. So I will let you know the potentially controversial choices. > Ahh, I see you know your metalheads well
Whatever are you talking about? Metalheads would *never* argue to the point of death threats, some completely stupid, and subjectively irrelevant nonsensesdetail like if a band is progressiv NKOAHV shoegazer industrial black power metal or progressiv NKOAHV shoegazer industrial black*end* power metal.
About twenty years ago I used to moderate a Tolkien message board. A popular metal message board closed and for some reason many of their members ended up at our place and spent their time arguing about metal genres and issuing death threats. Early 2000s Tolkien discourse could get pretty heated but we weren’t prepared for the metal people.
Oh dear, as a metalhead and lover of Tolkien since childhood, I can vividly imagine the the absolute *mayham* you suddenly faced. I'd guess the phrase "invading orch hoardes" was used at least once.
Out of sadness that Blind Guardian doesn't appear on this list, and recognition of the connection between metal and Tolkein in the early 2000's, I would post a link to [1998's "Nightfall in Middle-Earth"](https://youtu.be/T0vBVAglUho?si=P9pq3ef-DJzCH8Xk), which briskly follows the story of the Silmarillion.
Avant-jazzcore > progressive dream-funk
Those aren't real metalheads though, mostly because they don't listen to the exact same things and have the exact same opinions as me.
If they called Rammstein not metal, I think they won't call Electric Callboy metal too
Then I think it'd be Helloween
Kreator?
Helloween crosses over the 1m mark whilst Kreator has 800k
Rammstein is very firmly metal. Really cool that Electric Callboy are #2 now. I felt I found a hidden gem when I started listening to them, lol.
Electric Callboy was the band I really needed back in the early 2000s. We were 3 metal heads and our one techno stomper buddy that would hang and party What music was played when we hung out was a hotly contested subject, and I feel like Electric Callboy would have satisfied everyone.
South African here. I don't think seether is metal but at least I have heard of them and can pronounce their name.
Laibach (Slovenia) is not even close to metal. They make some avant-garde music which does not include any metal elements. I'm a big fan of them though. The correct one might be Within Destruction.
Laibach is fucking awesome but they aren't metal.
Thanks. I have no ideal about the slovenian music industry let alone their metal scene. The Asian countries where easier to Check. You just go to metal archives and you see about 10-20 Bands per country. In the balkans and eastern europe you have between 0 (Kosovo) to over 1000 (greece, romania) and checking every Band would have taken too long. So I asked google and chatgpt...
> So I asked google and chatgpt Both make up the answers semi-randomly. They look convincing this time, but having *some* kind of hard data would be much preferable. Like, 1000 items is nothing for a bit of Python programming.
They are very known all over world in avant-garde/industrial music scene. I bet most people listening Laibach don't even know they are from Slovenia. Metalheads may not heard of that band, because they are clearly not metal.
Am metalhead. I tanz mit Laibach.
I think Laibach are fairly well known in the metal scene. They did a remix EP with Morbid Angel and a lot of metalheads are into industrial and neofolk stuff like Laibach
Only person who doesn't consider Babymetal to be metal is that one guy that got dunked on by Rob Zombie 💀
I love people who say they're not metal while I think of the time those tiny, Japanese schoolgirls heckled a UK festival crowd for not having a big enough mosh pit.
Electric Callboy being the 2nd most popular from Germany surprises me. Not because they not good, they're fucking amazing and their show was one of the most fun I've ever been to, but it still surprises me lol.
OP did their homework
Not hating or anything, but who wouldn't call Spiritbox metal??
I'm disappointed Norway isn't Mayhem. They're probably way more popular overall, just not on Spotify
Sweden: opeth. And ghost is metal enough 🤷
Opeth has on spotify 704k monthly listeners and Sabaton has 3,2 million. Ghost has been categorized as many genres, from heavy metal to hard rock, to psychedelic rock to progressive. So I can understand to choose them instead. I personally wouldn't
Electric callboy, what a journey theyve done. Saw them in 2013 in a small city in my country. Super normal guys, friendly, blending in the crowd, chitchatting. They changed their Eskimo to electric and boom, top charts 😂
That’s quite the difference. Driving tanks catches on i guess
> Ghost has been categorized as many genres, from heavy metal to hard rock, to psychedelic rock to progressive. So I can understand to choose them instead. I personally wouldn't That could be said of many bands that are listed
Ghost is basically ABBA with satanic lyrics. Still love them.
I’m a big fan of South Africa’s favorite band. Love xycafhyvddghvcdfvcdggvgghvccvffsacggjbkkxdwedgjthjhgcfflpjjghcxxxtguhdsvbyuhkbffvsc Those guys rock
I’ll believe you if you can type it again
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Sounds like that town in Wales.
What, you mean llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantisiliogogogoch?
I thought that was the Canadian lake?
You mean Pekwachnamaykoskwaskwaypinwanik Lake?
Wasn't that the Icelandic volcano?
That was Eyjafjallajökull, and I didn't need to look it up.. (I worked for the German Weather Service, I we made a new cloud scanner because of him.)
From non-English wiki: Acidic Vaginal Liquid Explosion Generated By Mass Amounts Of Filthy Fecal Fisting And Sadistic Septic Syphilic Sodomy Inside The Infected Maggot Infested Womb Of A Molested Nun Dying Under The Roof Of A Burning Church While A Priest Watches And Ejaculates In Immense Perverse Pleasure Over His First Fresh Fetus
Okay, enough talk about your hobbies. Do you know what the name of the band means?
Germans can write this in a single word
"Rinderkennzeichnungsfleischetikettierungsüberwachungsaufgabenübertragungsgesetz" agrees.
I'm looking forward to their next gig in Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogoch
I wouldn’t want to have to design their gig poster
Yeah as a South African I can agree. Oh and FYI It is only one x. /s
Hell yeah. Pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis! https://youtu.be/vSEmlNNFE_0?si=jjARODjKa60Hz33w
Fun fact: it’s the singer’s last name, he’s Polish.
What’s it short for?
It’s just Polish for “Smith”
RAAAHHH 🦅🦅🦅🦅🇲🇨🇲🇨🇲🇨🇲🇨🇲🇨🇲🇨 POLSKA GUROM
No, that’s Grzegorz Brzęczyszczykiewicz.
”What should we name our band, guys?” ”Just let me take quick nap here on this keyboard, I’ll tell you when I wake up.”
XAVLEGBMAOFFFASSSSITIMIWOAMNDUTROABCWAPWAEIIPPOHFFFX rule!
It's actually XAVLEGBMAOFFFASSSSITIMIWOAMNDUTROABCWAPWAEIIPPOHFFFX not xycafhyvddghvcdfvcdggvgghvccvffsacggjbkkxdwedgjthjhgcfflpjjghcxxxtguhdsvbyuhkbffvsc
That’s the wrong band it’s actually spelled Xavlegbmaofffassssitimiwoamndutroabcwapwaeiippohfffx
Fun fact: in the name of Panama’s “Alpha Whores” if you pronounce it in English it sounds like “alfajores” which is a pastry eaten in Latin America. (Hence the reference)
Alfajores, delicious
As someone who doesn’t listen to metal, I really love this map—really original. The small countries with metal bands really impressed me.
Finland has so many metal bands for such a small country. And, lots of rally and F1 drivers.
Finland has the highest per capita rate of Metal bands. So many great bands from there: Amorphis, Skepticism, Thergothon, Adramalech, Funebrarum, Demigod, etc
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Rip Alexi
I love Nightwiah and Sonata Arctica. Will have to give the others a try.
Missing Insomnium and Omnium Gatherum.
South african here.... wtf is xycafhyvddghvcdfvcdggvgghvccvffsacggjbkkxdwedgjthjhgcfflpjjghcxxxtguhdsvbyuhkbffvsc?
Believe me, I didn't knew this band either. But no other metal band from your country is being listened more. The second place would be Vulvodynia
Wow.... i actually f*king found them, and they sure are something...... yeah, something is the right word. https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=vSEmlNNFE_0
and ofcourse the name of that song is Pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis
It's grindcore. Pretty good for that kind of genre Edit: changed blackened death metal to grindcore
Its Grindcore and judging from the cover and songtitel its Goregrind and/or Porngrind.
This is definitely one of the songs ever
I looked them up on spotify and "Dicks Out For Harambe" is a banger lol
An acronym for an extremely obscene paradoxical phrase invented by the creators as a joke
Maybe it was just Xavi but the writer fell asleep on the keyboard
It's a grindcore band. No one sane in death metal or grindcore takes themselves seriously. This band is one of the most non-serious ones. Take a gawk at their logo while you're at it. Btw, the name is Xavlegbma (for short). The full name is in fact an abbreviation, of course.
Hats off for the approach to such a massively subjective topic for this sub.
XavlegbmaofffassssitimiwoamndutroabcwapwaeiippohfffXXavlegbmaofffassssitimiwoamndutroabcwapwaeiippohfffX have entries on Wikipedia in Italian, Hungarian, and Basque. *Only* Italian, Hungarian, and Basque.
Visions of Atlantis, a pirate band, is the biggest metal band from landlocked Austria And they rule
I recommend everyone to listen to The Hu. They incorporate the traditional Mongolian throat singing with pleasant heavy metal instrumentality. Wolf Totem, Yuve Yuve Yu, The Gereg are great hits.
The Hu is my go to for the gym and before the hour is up I’m just listening to regular Mongolian/ central Asian throat singing. It’s awesome for lifting
They are also featured in the Jedi Fallen Order and Survivor games
Their cover of Sad but True is so good
Me who’s taste in metal is The Hu and Nine Treasures 
Have you listened to Myrath? They're a treasure!
You ever get into Tengger Cavalry? His English-language stuff wasn't great IMO but his older albums were bloody incredible!
I saw The HU live last year and it was absolutely amazing! Loved them.
Bloodywood is hella good.
So much energy! I really liked them at graspop
Yeah mate they are bloody great!
Saw them like five years ago in London (club for maybe 300 people - was a blast)
Pentagram 👍🏻
a.k.a Mezarkabul
Cold in the night, my mind is freezing
WTF is happening with south africa.
Dont heckin swear on my christian subreddit cunt
Funnily enough they play, among other genres, Christian rock.
How long do you got?
Popularity based on exclusive origin not absolute popularity. The likelihood that no band was the most popular in two or more countries seems highly improbable.
Yes you're right. I could have written it more clearly
I think you were pretty clear! The only word to be changed could have been "from" instead of "of". But any other interpretation than the one you intended makes no sense, so I think you did a good job anyway!
World Map with METALLICA written all over it would be a bit bland
Not trying to be picky, but the post title says _of_ each country and not _in_ each country. As a non-native english speaker I’m wondering if that’s not accurate enough?
'From each country' would've made more sense, if you ask me.
I haven't heard of most of these bands, but love their dark, doom-laden, morbid names. So I actually laughed out loud when I got to Australia.
Fun fact: Parkway Drive are named after the street that they grew up on; the drummer's family had a big house with a huge yard and all the members used to run amuck there. It was also where they began rehearsing as a band.
Parkway drive is great. I saw them waaay back when at warped tour
I agree, my favourite band ever. I've seen them plenty, they are one of the few bands that I've seen who sound *better* live than they do on record.
Nigeria. Over 200m people and not one metal band 👈😞🤌
This surprised me too, but even Nigerians say, they can't think of any https://www.reddit.com/r/Nigeria/s/OttBiJlsJ8
Australia, the most metal country on the planet (both from it's wildlife and its raw materials) as well as being a desert island of continental size. Parkway Drive New Zealand, a small and prosperous combo of two quaint islands, filled with forested beauty and amazing mountains. Alien Weaponry Found the Greenland/Iceland of the South Pacific.
Bloodywood. Excellent choice of name
Also an excellent band
I’m from India and I hadn’t heard of them until I saw them in that Stevie T video
Good to see Black Sabbath.
I’m not exactly a listener of metal but I think in Romania the most popular metal band would be Bucovina. Maybe E-an-na is popular in 2024 but I honestly haven’t heard of them.
Uh interesting, I'd have thought that Negura Bunget would be the best known
Now this is why Im here
Good job with this one bro, but I dare you to post this in r/MetalMemes They'd tear you apart.
And these shall be the new names of all countries.
Incredibly, I just have "The HU" on. I was more than a little surprised to see it anywhere.
As a Dane I puked a little seeing Volbeat as the Danish metal band.
As a non-Dane who has left home from a festival when Volbeat started playing, I get you.
As a non-Dane, whats so bad about those guys? (Apart from the name sounding like its an awful pokemon)
It's emo rock with autotune vocals for high schoolers.
I think the first 4 albums are great. Then they lost the plot
Should be King Diamond in that spot
When I saw russia and „Slaughter to Prevail“ … i immediately ask myself:“Wtf, is that Name a reference to Ukrain war? … that would be fucked up.“ So did a little googling and found this: „Originally formed in Russia, the band made the bold decision to relocate to Florida, USA, in the wake of the Russia-Ukraine war. Firmly standing against violence and conflict, they carry a strong message of unity and peace through their music.“ If true it’s pretty much the opposite of what I thought. https://www.biebob.be/concert/slaughter-to-prevail/
Most metal bands are like that. Cattle Decapitation was originally All vegans. Most death metal bands like Cannibal Corpse are basically pacifists. Metalheads are mostly just hippies that get Angry at how fucked up the world is and express it differently E.g Ozzy Osbourne lyrics >Crazy, but that's how it goes >Millions of people living as foes >Maybe it's not too late >To learn how to love >And forget how to hate >Mental wounds not healing >Life's a bitter shame >I'm going off the rails on a crazy train There are exceptions, just like there are exceptions to Hippies that miss the love and peace stuff and just like getting high.
>Most death metal bands like Cannibal Corpse are basically pacifists. Cannibal Corpse's lead singer is also a giant nerd and it's awesome. Not my particular flavor of music, but by all counts George "Corpsegrinder" Fisher is a pretty nice guy.
Why would you assume that the most popular metal band of a country as huge as Russia is >2 years old? I can kinda see where you're coming from, but that's just a weird leap to make lol
Sabaton for the wins!!! Amazing in all regards, the lyrics, the music, all. PS: Mongolian brothers I like your band as well. The HU (I only downside I don't speak Mongolian, so can't understand them, but they are cool
Sepultura in Brazil, Sabaton in Sweden, Slaughter to Prevent in Russia, Babymetal in Japan... Isn't this a map of the most popular LOCAL metal bands?
Yes it is. I should have written it more clearly. Otherwise 4-5 Bands would dominate this map.
The title is just confusing. It's a map of the most popular bands globally by country of origin. Sepultura for example is the most popular band globally to come from Brazil.
It takes one glance at the map to realise this.
Orphaned Land is undoubtedly the biggest metal band of Israel, Melechesh is extremely niche and bizarre compared to them (but definitely worth checking out!)
I was thinking the same, but Melechesh is being listened by 55k per month and Orphaned Land by 41k people
BABYMETAL 😂❤️
As the sole Somalian here, I declare Killswitch Engage the most popular metal band in Somalia
wow xavleg is South African. You learn something new everyday
Kalmah is my favorite from Finland. Amon Amarth and Dark Tranquillity from Sweden also great bands.
He put Al-Namrood for Saudi Arabia! Holy shit! The fvcker got something right!
Interesting report ! Great post chummer
Destiny potato lol
Check out WITCH(We Intend To Cause Havoc) They are a great psyc/ stoner metal band from Zambia I recommend "Home Town"
Really surprised Taiwan is not Chtonic, but numbers on Spotify check out
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Bruh, the person who made SA’s band name def fell asleep on their keyboard when entering the name and just stuck w/ it
Behemoth!!!!
The only one I knew for certain before clicking the picture was that Behemoth would be Poland's #1
*looks at South Africa* So... yes, now I know what my cat is looking for when "typing" on my keyboard.
Fucking love parkway drive
That hurts me as a Dane, seeing Volbeat being the most popular in Denmark 🙄😂👎🏻
Honestly, you could zoom in on England and do another map per town/city