Where Metal Music Rules: A World Map Of Heavy Metal Bands Per Capita
Take data from Encyclopedia Metallum of active and inactive metal bands, compare how many come from each country with the CIA's population numbers and you can create a map of where metal rules. Though metal music was born in the U.S. and UK, Finland is most the metallic country with 53.5 metal bands per 100,000 people, followed by Sweden and Norway tied at 27.2. The U.S. and UK has spawned just 5.5 and 5.2 metal bands prer 100K respectively.
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Nice and useful post . Thank you !
I find it intriguing that vikings came from basically the same area. There’s probably no real connection, but it does make me wonder if the same underlying cultural stuff that motivate metalheads, were what motivated the Scandinavians to go viking.
How many of the Finnish bands feature a Hietala brother
Sad that metal’s popularity is dying in America. 8(