Top 5 metal countries?

Metal is in my blood Number of posts : 4272 Age : 65

In your opinion who would you say are the top 5 metal countries?

For me it would be these 5 in no order!

Sweden
Germany
Brazil
Norway
Australia, yes they have a ton of them out now!

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For me it would be

Germany
Sweden
UK
Finland
USA

Metal master Number of posts : 688 Age : 35

USA
Germany
Norway
Sweden
Brazil

Metal is my Life Number of posts : 28649 Age : 39

USA
England
Germany
Canada

Not sure what would occupy the fifth position...Brazil, perhaps?

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Japan

Japan

Japan

Japan

Japan

Heart of Metal Number of posts : 1786 Age : 37

USA back in the day

Germany

UK

Denmark

Canada

Metal is in my blood Number of posts : 3908 Age : 52

Germany
USA
Poland
UK
Brazil

Metal student Number of posts : 204 Age : 52

Germany
Finland
Sweden
USA
Greece

Master Sailboat Number of posts : 9301 Age : 45

for me, i'd say...
Germany
Sweden
USA
UK
Norway

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Sweden *
Finland *
Brazil
Germany
USA

* Probably the two biggest right now.

Metal is my Life Number of posts : 13862 Age : 49

USA used to be the best, but now they are almost just a footnote. Still like bands such as Nevermore and Iced Earth, and some of the obscure bands like Attacker. There also seems to be a big thrash wave hitting hard in the US again soon. Then they might return as a vital metal nation again, if that happens.

Today I think Norway is on it's way to something. Unfortuneatly we don't have enough people here to really have a big scene. There is room for way more classic metal and power metal. We are huge on Black metal and gothic death/doom though.

Sweden had both the return of the classic metal, like Hammerfall, Steel Attack, Nostradameus etc, and they had the Gothenburg scene with In Flames, Soilwork, Dark Tranquility etc. But nowadays? Nothing new really, just the same band releasing new stuff.

Finland sort of followed in Sweden's trails, and specializing in two genres: Folk metal, with Korpiiklani and Finntrolll etc. And the all the followers of Stratovarius and Nightwish. Again, not much new stuff seems to be happening.

Germany has always been a mighty metal nation, and they probably always will be.

England seems to be in a rut, with only DragonForce and Cradle of Filth making some headway, and even they are giving the scene a bad rep, imo.

Denmark is actually presenting some good stuff in Pyramaze and Mercenary, and the older stuff, like Pretty Miads, stil going strong.

Brazil seemed to be going somewhere, especially in the Christian metal scene. But it sort of fell apart there also.

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Germany
USA
Poland

Metal is in my blood Number of posts : 2546 Age : 35

kmorg wrote:: England seems to be in a rut, with only DragonForce and Cradle of Filth making some headway, and even they are giving the scene a bad rep, imo.

I'd say that the UK have more than just those two. I mean several classic bands are still going strong - for instance Maiden, Priest and Saxon. Dragonforce I think are doing good things for metal here, just bringing the whole fun element back into the scene and helping to rid metal of it's "devil music" image whilst CoF are just a joke - I'd like to think they're intentionally hilarious, but sometimes I doubt that.

Anyway, my countries in no order would be
Germany
Finland
UK
USA
Brazil

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AchrisK wrote:: Germany
USA
Poland

oops, I forgot to add Canada.

Germany
USA
Poland
Canada

ack

Metal graduate Number of posts : 450 Age : 43

Germany
Sweden
Brazil
Norway
UK (Maiden, Priest, Motorhead. All still goin' strong!)

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What the hell..... am I missing something here ?

why is everyone saying Brazil ?

Why ?????

Roo Jockey Number of posts : 4609 Age : 46

Germany
USA
Brazil
Japan
Canada

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Subject: Re: Top 5 metal countries? Mon Mar 05, 2007 1:33 pm

Germany
USA
UK
Sweden
Canada

Metal master Number of posts : 688 Age : 35

Locky wrote:: What the hell..... am I missing something here ?

why is everyone saying Brazil ?

Why ?????

Those brazilian stadiums fill up with a shitload of people Top 5 metal countries? 927150

Subject: Re: Top 5 metal countries? Mon Mar 05, 2007 2:05 pm

Quote :: Today I think Norway is on it's way to something. Unfortuneatly we don't have enough people here to really have a big scene. There is room for way more classic metal and power metal. We are huge on Black metal and gothic death/doom though.

This reminds me that I was looking up Norway on the web for travel purposes a few weeks ago and on Norway's main travel-sightseeing website one of the highlighted things was a Black Metal festival!! How absolutely cool is it that one of a country's official Tourist attractions/highlights is Heavy Metal (Black Metal, no less)?! Coupling the fact that Norway is geographically beautiful, super-rich (second wealthiest, per-capita, in the World) and surrounded and etched with so much water and then adding the Metal Scene they have.....I need to think about moving there! ALAS, my wife is from the the Caribean and can't stand weather below about 70 degrees F/ 20-21 degrees C.!!!

Metal is in my blood Number of posts : 4238 Age : 48

HOLLAND
SPAIN
ENGLAND
USA
JAPAN
Specialy in the 80s they had many increible bands.

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United Steel of A/ canada
germany
hungary
(and some olde bands from italy)

my favorite band, though, is from sweden(heavy load and i consider yngwie american, i guess he feels the same)

Baron Von 40oz. Number of posts : 4386 Age : 34

not in any order:
United States
Brazil
Germany
Netherlands
Japan

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I can tell you 3!

-USA
-UK
-Canada

Subject: Re: Top 5 metal countries? Wed Dec 12, 2007 9:13 pm

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