The most popular metal band (2024) from each country, according to Spotify

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.
I edited the title

Somehow genuinely had no idea Gojira were French so, TIL!

Also wtf South Africa.

I’ve checked them out on Spotify and that is some dirty, filthy grindcore
- So in other words, nothing you'd be able to find on Encyclopaedia Metallum (unless they also got classified as some genre without "core" in it)
  
  Edit: just joking. Mostly. I am still pretty salty about the fact that their gatekeeping is denying Every Time I Die their rightful place among the metal greats
Also wtf South Africa.

Yeah, can someone help me out with a pronunciation guide on that one?
- Xavleg (zav-leg) is the accepted "short" name for when you need to say it out loud or write it and can't be bothered to put the whole thing
  
  The whole thing is an abbreviation for a bunch of gross shit with X's on the front and end.
- It's pronounced just like it's spelled.
There are a few surprises here, tbf. I had no idea that Pentagram was Turkish (although, maybe it's a different Pentagram). I kinda remembered that Sepultra that was Brazilian, but I'm not really a fan, so I had mostly forgotten.
- You're probably thinking of the Pentagram from Virginia.
- I was somehow thinking of Phantogram and wondering "huh, never knew they did heavy stuff."
Check out Alcest. I'm obsessed with them
- Actually will, cheers for the recommendation!
Speaking as a South African, never heard of them.
- You have, it's just that that name fits in nobody's memory. /s
Check out Benighted! The new-ish guitarist is my old high school friend.
- Benighted has always been my favorite franchement band, above Gojira. Living in Lyon, I see Julien (the leader & singer) at nearly every gig that happens in that city.
https://yt.artemislena.eu/watch?v=vSEmlNNFE_0

For anyone curious

South Africa wins best bandname.

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
Best by character count.

It's not even close.

Genuinely surprised to see that Eluveitie beats out Celtic Frost.

Edit: Just looked at the stats, and wow, it's not even close: 872,935 to 120,157. That's a real wtf. Insert Principal Skinner "...it's the children who are wrong."jpg

Eluveitie did a song with Wigald Boning once for German 3sat. They are very well known.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P7gsFtN7XYg

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."
Switched to HD and downloaded. It's clear.

Of course The Hu are the mongolian one. Theyre awesome.

Their cover of enter sandman cracks me up. Super great band!
Not bad but Yat-Kha is my choice that brought metal to Mongolian music first.

South Africa looks like a cat walked across the keyboard

Full name: 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.
- We get it, band. You're edgy.
- Yuck

My friends are metalheads but I'm not. Popped this over to our discord to see what comes up.

First response: "Greenland is a country. What the fuck?"

They are a vassal state of denmark
No one there has spotify though

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)

Visions Of Atlantis in a land locked country.

That's how they're sure it wasn't actually there, just a vision.

Surprised to see New Zealand on the map.

Surprised their band isn't ulcerate
Why? Alien Weaponry is a solid band. Check them out.
- It's a reference to the phenomenon where map makers tend to ommit including New Zealand.

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!

Let's fucking go, so happy to see Spiritbox get the attention they deserve!

Devin Townsend is the true Canadian metal hero tho
One day as a Canadian, Unleash The Archers will get their love too!
- Weird that both spiritbox and unleash the archers come from the same little city
- UTA are awesome. I had never heard of them until their YouTube music put their version of Northwest Passage into my playlist, but I got hooked fast!

Thanks for including small countries!

Best aspect of this!

Anyone have a playlist with a song from each?

https://spotify.link/0EuZREdqoIb

here you go
- Thank you!

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'm surprised by the lack of Iron Maiden

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.
Sabbath > Maiden any day of the week.
- As someone who loves both, I have to agree.
Yeah, but Black Sabbath literally created (Heavy) Metal due to Tony Iommi's accident.

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?
Yeah that one was predictable

Divlje Jagode are not a metal band. They are good, but they don't play metal.

Destiny Potato with the Party Cannon energy.

As a Moroccan, I've never heard of Torpedo until today.

I'm pretty sure barely anyone here actually knows them.

That's not the most popular band in each country, but FROM each country.
- After doing an internet search (it's not Google, I swear), I found out that Torpedo is Australian, not Moroccan.
  
  I remember hearing about a Moroccan metal band before, but I definitely forgot what they're called. Spoiler alert: it's not Torpedo.

Jinjer is amazing. Her voice has such a range

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
I'm not. They fucking rock.
- They aren't very worshipped over here in western canada like the other mentioned bands here

Can't recommend Moldova (Infected Rain) and Georgia (Psychonaut 4) enough! Great bands!

Huh, I didn't expect to see Flesh Juicer on the map...

Cool.

I'd have expected Chthonic, but I'm fine with either.
- Haven't heard of them. Definitely gonna have to check them out.

take a look at persefone, really good band from andorra

amerca rocking the dad metal also singapore are bad asses!

"Who the hell is Black labbath?" - my blind ass

Well, that is the risk of having just one eye.

Wormrot is the best on the list, hands down.

Looking at the blank Sahara region:

May the Metalocalypse be upon you!

Australia knows what’s up.

Signed, an American.

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)

Mexico's top metal band is 'los tucanes del norte'

Wait for real? I love Los Tigres Del Norte and Los Tucanes De Tijuana, that name is hilarious if true.

Something seems sus here...

No two countries have the same favorites?

the title was a little bit confusing. it's the map of popular bands by the country of origin.
That’s not what the map is showing.

You can really see where the Taint Nation boundaries lie. Once you're a Taint fan, you're never the same

"Then, everything changed when the Taint Nation attacked."

WTF is Awakening Sun :D

Kinda interesting to see, since Russia does not have Spotify afaik.

I believe this is the band with the most spotify listeners who originated in each country (not who is listened to most in each country).
- Ah, I see. That makes more sense 😌

Parkway Drive are a fucking great band, Australia can do metal

Yeah they are great if you are a 35 year old girl
- I don't understand your comment

Yo fuckin Elis, I haven't listened to them since... Well, since their original singer's brain went and popped (cerebral hemorrhage). They were pretty kick ass.

And u thought the scorpions were more popular in Germany. At least it's more in the direction of metal than Rammstein. In case of doubt: Kreator or Halloween

None of that fake shit, WWE cuz you know we keep it real like the UFC...

UUHHH...

Nice map, but crazy how few (IMHO) good one are also the most famous.

There is so much good metal from Germany, but of course ramm- we hate women and love violence fkin -stein (who isnt even metal but "deutsche härte" and plays with nationalist pictures) is most famous.

List of ones I (personally) like:

Parkway drive, jinjer, the hu, bloodywood

Also respect for the ancients (metallica, etc.) just not my personal taste.

Edit: haha reddit users migrated to lemmy HM, you now get downvoted for sharing clearly subjektive things like music taste ^^

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? 😂

Edit: I'm not a metal fan and not attempting to gate keep. As an outsider, it's definitely notable that almost all the bands have names that meet expectations and a couple certainly do not.

Babymetal is a Japanese heavy metal idol group, and they're awesome.
Have you ever left your house
- Yes, I've just never listened to metal in South Africa.
We got a gatekeeper here folks!
- 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.
- gatekeepers are good they protect that scenes culture from dumb ass "normies" who want to repurpose it.
Why the downvotes? These are funny names.
- 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'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)
Rata Blanca is p good tho 🔥
all these bands suck lol but thats what id expect from the most popular. half of them are barely even metal.