Since when is pop music considered metal? Oh, you mean Ride the Lightning and such…
Tbf they aren’t the poppy-est band on the list either.
(Btw I love this song.)
Definitely confused by some names. Looking at you South Africa. Also, Rata Blanca? Really? Parkway Drive? Baby Metal? 😂
all these bands suck lol but thats what id expect from the most popular. half of them are barely even metal.
Have you ever left your house
Why the downvotes? These are funny names.
I’m downvoting for specifically picking out Parkway Drive as if it’s not clearly Australia’s best metal band.
(this comment surely won’t end up being controversial either lol)
Ne Obliviscaris is Australia’s best metal band, hands down.
Oh, are you interpreting their comment as saying that these bands don’t deserve to be popular?
I think, they’re rather saying that the names themselves are humorous, like I don’t speak any South African language, but I have to assume that band intentionally stringed together tons of letters.
Similarly, a drive on a parkway is rather mundane, whereas a metal band’s music is usually quite the opposite…It’s all relative to popularity. If it was about Rock and said AC/DC for Australia who would go hahahah AC/DC what a stupid name lololol are they making music about rectifiers? Parkway Drive is just one example that I was personally rolling my eyes over hard, but how is White Rat not a suitable name for a metal band?! To me it’s just being deliberately ignorant, that’s the whole joke, I don’t know these bands, such stupid names.
like I don’t speak any South African language, but I have to assume that band intentionally stringed together tons of letters.
Its even worse than that, as the OP posted above, its an acronym made to be as disgusting as they could come up with. Its honestly a bit impressive, but not that surprising considering the genre.
Thank you for actually reading my comment
Ok but Gojira are actually men and not Monsters, these are band names not descriptors of the band.
That’s a weird way to spell Caligula’s Horse. Jkjk, I’ve never listened to parkway drive, they probably kick ass, I just have a soft spot for chorse.
Caligulas Horse is dope and I’m happy to see another person spreading their gospel in the wild.
It’s a pretty common thing to say certain bands aren’t metal, as an elitist gatekeeping thing. Baby Metal is one that often, people will say “isn’t metal” because they’re cute girls in Gothic Lolita fashion. It’s a pretty common assumption that anyone laughing at baby Metal is just being an elitist.
I don’t care for baby metal but it’s because of their fans primarily.
Look, I love Nekrogoblikon so I am not one to hold my nose in derision over a shtick.
Babymetal are super talented, The music is pretty good too it’s just not for me.
It’s not MY type of metal but if I have that opinion around one of their fans I get the “oh you’re an elitist” speech when in reality every fan I’ve known of Baby Metal has been kinda icky and shitty about them not being in my top 5.
I mean, they’re not my top choice either, but there’s a HIGE difference in your approach, “not my cup of tea”, and the gatekeeper approach of “it’s not real reeee”. Everyone has taste, but there’s some kind of weird pride over something being metal, or not metal, and it’s just super shitty to attack something someone loves, just because it’s not your thing.
Heard.
My point was their fandom swings the other direction too.
I mean, that’s fair. I don’t think that’s a valid reason to go gatekeeper, just live and let live, but I get it.
Oh shit I’m not gatekeeping or trying to, I was just conversing with ya. I say listen to whatever gets you off
I’ve seen what you’re saying for sure though but I argue it’s anyone who is passionate about something likes to walk their garden off and throw up a gate.
While I accept that Baby metal is metal, it’s also manufactured corpo rock.
Metallica is on the map too, so they’re in good company with a like group.
Baby Metal is an idol group which … yeah, that’s the genre
I’m not a fan of Metallica, but they did emerge from a grassroots music scene.
I’m not into metal. It’s just interesting how 150 of them fit expectations and a handful don’t. I’m not gate keeping.
Rata Blanca is p good tho 🔥
Babymetal is a Japanese heavy metal idol group, and they’re awesome.
We got a gatekeeper here folks!
gatekeepers are good they protect that scenes culture from dumb ass “normies” who want to repurpose it.
No, gatekeepers suck. Let people enjoy their things, them enjoying it doesn’t somehow rob your ability to enjoy it. Look at it this way, everyone was a new fan who didn’t know but the band’s 3 most popular songs. Maybe instead of shitting on them, recommend some cool songs based on what they already like? Explain some of the meaning in their music? Do literally anything but “NOT METAL!” or “NOT A REAL FAN!”
agree to disagree. good things half these bands arent even metal. People who know nothing about a something speaking on it with authority sucks.
Glad I’ve never met anyone like you at a show rofl. You lot are miserable.
Do you feel better now? If you are going to shows for these bands you’ll never see me, im at the metal and punk shows. Enjoy the butt rock I’m happy for u
Are you fine with cultural appropriation in general? Should the dominant culture get to redefine minority cultures without their input? Why is it any different with music subcultures?
You can enjoy all the hard rock and -core bands you want, just don’t try to steal the term metal from the metalheads.
Cultures assimilate, grab ideas from each other, and split off into their own new things. It’s how humans have always worked. There’s no problem with it, if it’s not done with malice or ignorance. This is how we get fun, new sounds, fun, new ideas, and it doesn’t kill anything you love.
There’s a pretty big difference between a culture choosing to assimilate and outsiders trying to steal a culture’s identity because they want to appropriate the culture’s history and cachet.
Again, you can have your new ideas and sounds all you want. Just call them something else.
They’re directly spun off from metal often. That’s why they’re called subgenres.
Cultures can’t decide things, they aren’t entities of themselves. They’re collectives of people. By simply existing within the metal culture and literally any other culture, you are effectively assimilating, bringing in new ideas and perspectives. Unless your culture is literally only ever interacting with themselves. Which sounds pretty fucking bland.
What even is just “metal” anyway? It’s kind of a useless term on its own. It’s an umbrella, and all you’re deciding at this point is what that umbrella does and doesn’t include. Is Ozzy metal? Iron maiden? Metallica, slayer, Megadeth, anthrax? They all use metal in their name. They all sound distinctly metal, but they’re also completely different sounds, from completely different subgenres that to say they’re the same is ridiculous. And at the same time you show me one person who doesn’t identify one of them as metal, and I’ll show you someone who’s wrong.
Doesn’t that imply every cultural collision, including the ones that created metal, are bad and should be reversed?
See you at lute practice, bro. I don’t what to hear any of that Bach garbage. It’s not even music.
I’m not a metal fan and I’m not attempting to gate keep. As an outsider, it is interesting how many many many popular metal bands fit the expectation and yet a few do not fit that expectation.
Gotcha. There’s a LOT of gatekeeping in the metal community, from band to band, and from genre to genre. Some of the names are pretty funny, yeah, and that’s part of what some people use as an attempt to gatekeep.
I was not disappointed when I zoomed in on France.
France and Ukraine rocking that home field advantage here.
Ignea too young to get that top 1 in Ukraine
I think you misspelled White Ward.
I’m surprised by the lack of Iron Maiden
Yeah, but Black Sabbath literally created (Heavy) Metal due to Tony Iommi’s accident.
It’s the most popular bands from each country, not the most popular bands in each country. So Maiden could have only been in the UK and Sabbath beat them out.
For some reason I thought they were huge in Brazil and the rest of South America too.
They very well might be, but they’re not from Brazil or the rest of South America, so it’s irrelevant.
Oh shoot, I completely misread the title. I thought it was each country’s favorite metal band, not where they’re from. Whoops!
No worries, looks like op changed the title at some point, so you may have just seen the old one.
Sabbath > Maiden any day of the week.
As someone who loves both, I have to agree.
South Africa wins best bandname.
Best by character count.
It’s not even close.
I don’t know, Bloodywood is a pretty fucking good name for an Indian metal band.
They go so fucking hard live too, absolute blast to watch
Until you find out what it stands for. Lol
ok well now i just have to know…
…oh my god
amerca rocking the dad metal also singapore are bad asses!
Scandanavia and India are the only continents with taste.
Monthly views:
Monthly views of what?
Of each of the bands.
This needs a per capita, otherwise just another map of population or Spotify Accounts
It’s the number of views for each bands (as it is one band per country). It’s not a map population of Spotify accounts, otherwise you would see Mexico in much darker green for instance (and Australia less dark)
All this proves to me is that the global takeover by Metal is nearly finished, soon the whole world will be metal!
Yeah, screw all the other trolls!
Just to be clear, these are the most popular metal bands from each country, according to worldwide listening stats, correct?
Oooooh, that explains why System of a Down didn’t show up in Armenia.
Yeah. I agree it’s fairly confusing. Seems to be the most listened to band from each country according to Spotify.
I edited the title
Vision of Atlantis? Never heard if, and I am Austrian.
Similar…I’m a Canadian never heard of Spiritbox. I thought it’d be Voivoid or Strapping Young Lad, maybe Anvil for the older crowd.
Voivod For The Fucking WIN! Dimension Hatross is (objectively) one of the greatest metal albums of all time.
Never heard of any of those, but I also don’t listen to metal lol
if It is be English language It without a doubt would be bedwetters (in Estonia)
Do you have a higher resolution picture?
Click the HD button in the top right but even that won’t help you spell South Africa’s favourite metal band.
Here we go "“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.”
Fucking THANK YOU! I’ve been wondering what the abbreviation was for since some dude offhandedly mentioned it in a comment above. I didn’t want to have to figure out how to google all that lol.
Side note, however:
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
Christian music
Its members rarely consider themselves Christians
I am now even more confused.
… Ha?
I am almost surprised that that’s actually the band’s name. Almost.
Light novel titles got nothing on South Africa’s favourite band.
Switched to HD and downloaded. It’s clear.
Brazil is as expected
So is Denmark, but as a F Dane, I’m still slightly disappointed.
Should be mercyful fate
I would call Volbeat rock, but are they really metal?
Kinda surprised sabaton beats amon amarth
And in flames… Opeth…
Yeah good point, I’ve been into metal since I’m 14 and sabaton was never a band I cared about for some reason haha, always amazed by their popularity
It’s very palatable metal for people who migrated from Arctic Monkeys and like European history.
I’m not. They fucking rock.
They aren’t very worshipped over here in western canada like the other mentioned bands here
