Metal Map

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North American Heavy Metal Music

Texas | United States | Quebec | Canada

Texas

Texas Death Metal

Absu
Acerbus 
Averse Sefira 
dead horse 
Divine Eve 
Fearless Iranians From Hell 
Imprecation 
Rigor Mortis 

United States

Los Angeles Death Metal

Abomination Absu  Acerbus  Angelcorpse  Autopsy  Averse Sefira  Baphomet  Black Goat  Brutal Truth  Capharnaum  Ceremonium  Corrosion of Conformity  dead horse  Death  Death Strike  Deceased  Deeds of Flesh  Deicide  Demoncy  Demonic  Deteriorate  Drogheda  Engrave  Exhumed  Fallen Christ  Fearless Iranians From Hell  Gutted  Havohej  Hemdale  Imprecation  Incantation  Infester  Inquisition

Krieg Lepra  Massacre  Monstrosity  Morbid Angel  Morpheus Descends  Mythic  NME  Nuclear Assault  Nuclear Death  Num Skull  Obituary  Oppressor  Possessed  Powermad  Profanatica  Prong  Pyrexia  Rachel Barton Stringendo  Resurrection  Resuscitator  Revenant  Rigor Mortis  Rise  Sadistic Intent  Sarcophagus  Slayer  Suffocation  Terrorizer  Thanatopsis  Von  Yamatu

Quebec

Gorguts
Mesrine
Sorcier des Glaces
Voivod
Cryptopsy
Kataklysm
Martyr

Canada

Blasphemy

South American Heavy Metal Music

Brazil | Colombia | Peru

Brazil

Sarcofago
Sepultura

Colombia

Inquisition

Peru

Mortem

Central American Heavy Metal Music

Mexico

Mexico

Auzhia
Cenotaph
Monastery
Mortuary
Xibalba

European Heavy Metal Music

Sweden | Finland | Norway | The Netherlands | Austria | Belgium | Germany |Poland | Switzerland | France | Spain | United Kingdom | Italy | Greece

Sweden

Swedish Death Metal

Abyss, the Abruptum  Bathory  Cartilage  Dark Funeral  Dark Tranquility  Dawn  Dismember  Dissection  Entombed  Eucharist  Grotesque  Hetsheads  Hypocrisy  Fleshcrawl  Luciferion

Marduk Merciless  Mortiis  Mysticum  Necrophobic  Niden Div 187  Ophthalamia  Sacramentum  Seance  Setherial  Swordmaster  Therion  Throne of Ahaz  Unanimated  Unleashed

Finland

Adramelech
Amorphis
Belial
Demigod
Demilich
Impaled Nazarene
Sentenced

Norway

Ancient
Arcturus
Burzum
DarkThrone
Dimmu Borgir
Emperor
Enslaved
Gorgoroth
Hades
Ildjarn / Sort Vokter
Immortal
Katatonia
Kvist
Mayhem
Molested
Tartaros
Thorns
Troll
Ulver
Zyklon-B

The Netherlands

Asphyx
Pestilence
Sinister

Austria

Pervertum
Summoning

Belgium

Ancient Rites

Germany

Atrocity
Blood
Torchure

Poland

Behemoth
Betrayer
Graveland
Infernum
Vader

Switzerland

Hellhammer / Celtic Frost
Samael

France

Asgard
Massacra
Supuration

Spain

Blazemth
Necrophiliac

United Kingdom (England, Scotland, Wales, Cornwall, Ireland, Jersey)

Bolt Thrower
Cathedral
Napalm Death

Italy

Maleficarum
Necromass

Greece

Necromantia
Rotting Christ
Septic Flesh
Varathron

Asian Heavy Metal Music

Reviews from bands in this area are planned for the future.

African Heavy Metal Music

Reviews from bands in this area are planned for the future.

Middle Eastern Heavy Metal Music

Reviews from bands in this area are planned for the future.

Australian Heavy Metal Music

Urgrund

Heavy Metal Geography

Metal is a worldwide phenomenon, spanning the globe and every race known to humanity in the pantheon of its originators. From the spread of heavy metal as the cheap jet fuel that represented the only vaguely relevant aspect of colonialism to the emergence of death metal in populations of alienated and critical youngsters immersed in the tradition and anchored in the longstanding lineage of their nations, metal is an outspoken voice of dissent, change, and abstract thinking in countries and continents otherwise enslaved to the current world culture of mass consumption, avoidance of the value of life in order to deny mortality, slavery to subservience in order to escape the burden of personal choice, and destruction of nature to obliterate the traces from which we emerged as a species.

From North America to Australia, from far East Asia to the nearer shores of Europe, from the Norsk northlands and the South African steppes, and even from the Middle East to Central America, death metal and black metal and heavy metal and grindcore and thrash have manifested a presence which is more or less permanent. Furthermore, the civilizations within society have adopted it as a facile and resilient voice in the style of cultures as diverse as the Native Americans of the United States, the Inca in Peru, the Tamil in Sri Lanka, the Montagnard in Laos, the Nordics in Sweden and the native peoples of the Brazillian rainforest. All of this origination goes to show: metal isn't about where you're from, but how you think - a tendency that spreads itself alongside the world intellectual malaise of symbolic denial.