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Map of countries by metal bands per capita (i.imgur.com)

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[–]erick_discordia 143 points144 points ago

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The bright red in Northern Europe makes my Scandinavian heart swell with pride.

[–]depo_[S] 61 points62 points ago

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I made another version following some suggestions in this thread. It is clearer, and Scandinavia swells even more.

[–]anderssi 28 points29 points ago*

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a bit of triva: Finland is not actually part of Scandinavia. Scandinavia consists of Sweden, Norway and Denmark. To include Finland and Iceland you should refer to the region as the Nordic countries, or Fenno scandinavia (scandinavia + Finland, kola peninsula and karelia)

Finland is often included in Scandinavia on account of its historical association with Sweden and its Scandinavian minority. How ever the strict definition of Scandinavia is only the 3 monarchies; Sweden, Norway and Denmark

Edit: as it was pointed out, Denmark is indeed attached to the continental Europe. </off topic> </geography>

[–]ztherion 7 points8 points ago

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Less clear for teh color blind, though.

[–]mycodenameisnotmilo 5 points6 points ago

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Red and throbbing...

[–]dontspillme 3 points4 points ago

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There's only one way to play metal: long and hard!

[–]mamjjasond 0 points1 point ago

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First time I've ever considered that there are such things as Bhutanese metal bands.

[–][deleted] -1 points0 points ago

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Can you make a nice wallpaper of this?

[–]depo_[S] 2 points3 points ago

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What does it need to be a wallpaper?

[–]deraffeDer_Affe 1 point2 points ago

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It needs to be in a vector format. Or you need to provide it in different resolutions.

[–][deleted] 1 point2 points ago

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Higher resolution at a bigger size. It looks good as is, but when it gets resized in any way shape or form it gets a bit blurry. No sweat if you do or not. It's just one of the cooler demographic maps i've seen.

[–]MetaphexMetamyr 16 points17 points ago

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Which raises the question, is there something in our blood that makes us love metal?

[–]MsgGodzilla 35 points36 points ago

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Viking fury?

[–]tonberry 14 points15 points ago

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Mead?

[–]erick_discordia 10 points11 points ago

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All of the above with a touch of war-lust.

[–]Philosotoaster 13 points14 points ago

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Hello...it's friggen cold, dark and you eat rotten fish...of course you're pissed off

[–]Kryten_2X4B-523P 1 point2 points ago

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metal blood

[–]TowelieFromSouthPark 3 points4 points ago

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Mention of Nordic areas? Better plug /r/Norse. More geared toward mythology, however.

[–]FireyFlyFireyFly 6 points7 points ago

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Or /r/Nordiccountries.

[–]tenchimyoHelloween 35 points36 points ago

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now this is a better version of the map that was floating around a few days ago. MUCH easier to digest

[–]anarkyinducer 27 points28 points ago

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I love how most of Africa looks like 'not even a place' in pretty much any statistical charts.

[–]goatpriest 5 points6 points ago

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Same! It's about time we just forget about it.

[–]Riktenkay 2 points3 points ago

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Forget about what?

[–]loulan 2 points3 points ago

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You love it? That's kinda mean.

[–]Kungen- 41 points42 points ago

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As a Finn who has seen a lot of underground metal bands play, I kind of wish our country had a yellower color.
It does get really bad, and I mean really bad.

[–]depo_[S] 23 points24 points ago

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The colours don't do justice to the quantity of bands in Finland. Here's the top 5:

  1. Finland 53,2023
  2. Svalbard 50,7614
  3. Sweden 37,1384
  4. Liechtenstein 27,2383
  5. Norway 26,9583

[–]Blasphemophagher 12 points13 points ago

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Why is Svalbard so high? Don't they only have like 2000 people?

[–]Aeshma-Diva 20 points21 points ago

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Because it counts as Norway.

[–]myrpou -1 points0 points ago

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No then why would Norway also be on the list with less bands? the list is obviously incorrect, im wondering if im missing out on some kind of joke here? Is the joke that it's bizarre to suggest that Liechtenstein has 27,2383 metal bands or what?

[–]guyw2legs 1 point2 points ago

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Liechtenstein has 27.2382 metal bands per 100,000 people.

[–]depo_[S] 10 points11 points ago

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It's high because they have a very few people so, even if they have only a band, they rank high in terms of bands per person.

[–]Vikingrage 9 points10 points ago

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Even so, it isn't a country by it self. It's a part of Norway.

And props on the maps, great work!

[–]depo_[S] 10 points11 points ago

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Yeah I know. It was in the data because Encyclopaedia Metallum lists it as a country (I don't know why). But the tool I used to make the map (Gunnmap) does not consider it and so it's a part of Norway in the map.

[–]Vikingrage 2 points3 points ago

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Cheers on the explanation as well

[–]zackisazombie 2 points3 points ago

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I thought you were kidding, but they have about 2,400.

[–]Dotura 3 points4 points ago

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Svalbard isn't a country though, its a part of Norway

[–]DeadDougDeadDoug666 19 points20 points ago

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you think that Somalia would have at least 1 metal band...famine is metal as fuck

[–]Philosotoaster 8 points9 points ago

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Pirate metal is more like it

[–]onelasttime 15 points16 points ago

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The map is outdated - how am I supposed to know how many metal bands are in South Sudan?

[–]Ueichen 11 points12 points ago

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as allways, scandinavia kicks ass

[–]depo_[S] 27 points28 points ago*

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Data dump:

Country;Metal bands per 100.000 people;Bands;Population

Albania;0,2664;8;3.002.859

Algeria;0,0621;22;35.406.303

Andorra;3,5260;3;85.082

Angola;0,0111;2;18.056.072

Argentina;3,1072;1.311;42.192.494

Armenia;0,4040;12;2.970.495

Australia;6,9178;1.523;22.015.576

Austria;9,9395;817;8.219.743

Azerbaijan;0,0421;4;9.493.600

Bahrain;0,8011;10;1.248.348

Bangladesh;0,0155;25;161.083.804

Barbados;0,3475;1;287.733

Belarus;2,3054;220;9.542.883

Belgium;9,0723;947;10.438.353

Belize;0,3051;1;327.719

Bolivia;1,3411;138;10.290.003

Bosnia and Herzegovina;1,7740;82;4.622.292

Botswana;0,3336;7;2.098.018

Brazil;1,8696;3.846;205.716.890

Brunei;4,1587;17;408.786

Bulgaria;3,3390;235;7.037.935

Burma;0,0037;2;54.584.650

Canada;7,3003;2.504;34.300.083

Chile;6,6618;1.137;17.067.369

China;0,0118;159;1.343.239.923

Colombia;1,9452;880;45.239.079

Costa Rica;2,3726;110;4.636.348

Croatia;6,5401;293;4.480.043

Cuba;0,6411;71;11.075.244

Cyprus;3,8662;44;1.138.071

Czech Republic;10,8575;1.105;10.177.300

Democratic Republic of Congo;0,0014;1;73.599.190

Denmark;12,6455;701;5.543.453

Dominican Republic;0,2082;21;10.088.598

Ecuador;1,3006;198;15.223.680

Egypt;0,0155;13;83.688.164

El Salvador;1,3792;84;6.090.646

Estonia;12,3165;157;1.274.709

Faroe Islands;16,1672;8;49.483

Finland;53,2023;2.800;5.262.930

France;5,7306;3.761;65.630.692

Georgia;0,2188;10;4.570.934

Germany;10,0313;8.156;81.305.856

Gibraltar;13,7770;4;29.034

Greece;13,2710;1.429;10.767.827

Greenland;1,7333;1;57.695

Guam;3,2315;6;185.674

Guatemala;0,5249;74;14.099.032

Guyana;0,2696;2;741.908

Honduras;0,3375;28;8.296.693

Hungary;9,2283;919;9.958.453

Iceland;22,6705;71;313.183

India;0,0093;112;1.205.073.612

Indonesia;0,2325;577;248.216.193

Iran;0,0520;41;78.868.711

Iraq;0,0193;6;31.129.225

Ireland;5,6967;269;4.722.028

Israel;2,5162;191;7.590.758

Italy;7,7618;4.755;61.261.254

Jamaica;0,0346;1;2.889.187

Japan;1,1007;1.402;127.368.088

Jordan;0,3995;26;6.508.887

Kazakhstan;0,1541;27;17.522.010

Kenya;0,0023;1;43.013.341

Kuwait;0,0756;2;2.646.314

Kyrgyzstan;0,0728;4;5.496.737

Laos;0,0304;2;6.586.266

Latvia;3,0115;66;2.191.580

Lebanon;0,8212;34;4.140.289

Libya;0,0297;2;6.733.620

Liechtenstein;27,2383;10;36.713

Lithuania;3,5170;124;3.525.761

Luxembourg;12,5718;64;509.074

Macedonia;3,5056;73;2.082.370

Madagascar;0,0266;6;22.585.517

Malaysia;1,3263;387;29.179.952

Maldives;1,5211;6;394.451

Malta;11,7120;48;409.836

Mexico;1,2603;1.449;114.975.406

Moldova;0,6563;24;3.656.843

Monaco;19,6657;6;30.510

Mongolia;0,1887;6;3.179.997

Montenegro;0,9127;6;657.394

Morocco;0,0371;12;32.309.239

Mozambique;0,0043;1;23.515.934

Namibia;0,0923;2;2.165.828

Nepal;0,0401;12;29.890.686

Netherlands;10,4240;1.744;16.730.632

New Caledonia;1,1531;3;260.166

New Zealand;5,5454;240;4.327.944

Nicaragua;0,3143;18;5.727.707

Norway;26,9583;1.269;4.707.270

Oman;0,0324;1;3.090.150

Pakistan;0,0258;49;190.291.129

Panama;1,5669;55;3.510.045

Paraguay;1,2688;83;6.541.591

Peru;0,9882;292;29.549.517

Philippines;0,1571;163;103.775.002

Poland;6,5391;2.512;38.415.284

Portugal;9,1082;982;10.781.459

Puerto Rico;3,0508;122;3.998.905

Qatar;0,0512;1;1.951.591

Romania;1,2907;282;21.848.504

Russia;1,4100;1.947;138.082.178

San Marino;6,2228;2;32.140

Saudi Arabia;0,0452;12;26.534.504

Serbia;3,6006;262;7.276.604

Singapore;3,6238;194;5.353.494

Slovakia;7,7329;424;5.483.088

Slovenia;9,0152;180;1.996.617

South Africa;0,2438;119;48.810.427

South Korea;0,3623;177;48.860.500

Spain;4,7318;2.226;47.042.984

Sri Lanka;0,0884;19;21.481.334

Suriname;0,1785;1;560.157

Svalbard;50,7614;1;1.970

Sweden;37,1384;3.381;9.103.788

Switzerland;9,4310;722;7.655.628

Syria;0,0755;17;22.530.746

Taiwan;0,1860;43;23.113.901

Tajikistan;0,0386;3;7.768.385

Thailand;0,1938;130;67.091.089

Trinidad and Tobago;0,4077;5;1.226.383

Tunisia;0,1211;13;10.732.900

Turkey;0,5041;402;79.749.461

Turkmenistan;0,0396;2;5.054.828

Uganda;0,0056;2;35.873.253

Ukraine;1,0902;489;44.854.065

United Arab Emirates;0,3575;19;5.314.317

United Kingdom;5,1327;3.236;63.047.162

United States;5,4950;17.246;313.847.465

Uruguay;3,1963;106;3.316.328

Uzbekistan;0,0176;5;28.394.180

Venezuela;0,9555;268;28.047.938

Vietnam;0,0426;39;91.519.289

[–]dotsaudotsau 27 points28 points ago

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So we (Russia) are just 53 bands short of being dark red on the previous map. I will inform KGB to address this issue immediately.

[–]beaver991 5 points6 points ago

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I had a productive Lunch

[–]FireyFlyFireyFly 2 points3 points ago

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So... how informative is this when we don't know which country each of the dots represent?

[–]beaver991 1 point2 points ago

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It's to show the correlation between population size and number of bands per capita

[–]kylotan 2 points3 points ago

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Did you get the band data from my post on the other thread or did you get it a different way?

[–]depo_[S] 2 points3 points ago

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It's from your post!

[–]wildcard1992TimOzcelik 4 points5 points ago

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Are you swapping the periods and commas? I got really confused trying to read this. Very interesting map though.

[–]depo_[S] 45 points46 points ago

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I'm continental European. You are swapping periods and commas :)

[–]wildcard1992TimOzcelik 2 points3 points ago

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Makes sense. Thanks!

[–]galexanderj 2 points3 points ago

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i think he is using commas where we would use a decimal, and then a decimal where we would use a comma, space or nothing at all(my personal preference)

I am not sure on this though. All the numbers being mashed up so close together with semicolons in between and decimals&commas all over the place. Would work so much better as a chart or if he tabbed instead of using semicolons.

[–]zesty_mordant 0 points1 point ago

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We are coming for your place in this list Australia. You have been warned.

- Canada

[–]Bladechaser 9 points10 points ago

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Good to see Santa rocking out.

[–]the_cunning_stunts 10 points11 points ago

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Now I am definitely moving to Finland

[–]jimminy 5 points6 points ago

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Welcome!

[–]executex 6 points7 points ago

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I'd like to make the correlation that modernized nations with better education tend to have more metal---except in Asia.

[–]brettaburger 2 points3 points ago

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I bet that's true about a lot of music though. Nations that are not modernized wont have access to the same music we listen to.

[–]the_raging_fist 0 points1 point ago

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I don't think the communist like metal in China...

[–]Zombies_Rock_Boobs 0 points1 point ago

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Dude, Japan is modernized AND it's Asian. Those guys love metal, in fact a lot of extra content goes to them when a band or a solo artist like Jeff Loomis drops an album, when he dropped Zero Order Phase we didn't get Omega's Influence.

[–]Riktenkay -1 points0 points ago

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To be fair, metal is very popular in Japan. I expected it to be redder on this map. I guess there's just so many people there it cancels out...

[–]iamhusband 6 points7 points ago

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BRB starting the best metal band in Africa.

[–]HandsomeDynamite 12 points13 points ago

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This is awesome, except I'm ashamed Canada is more metal than the US.

[–][deleted] 38 points39 points ago

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Devin Townsend alone is responsible for half of Canada's metal bands, skewing the statistics slightly.

[–]dana87 0 points1 point ago

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http://www.metalunderground.com/bands/country/Canada/

[–]ENKCENKC 2 points3 points ago

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Can't take a joke, eh?

[–]dana87 5 points6 points ago

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Im happy about it. Go Canada \m/

[–]GiveBlood88http://www.last.fm/user/CRSEvan -2 points-1 points ago

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Im Canadian but to be fair the US invented Country, Rock, Soul, Jazz, Punk, RnB, Hip Hop and of course Metal. As the founders and world leaders of pop music (yes metal is pop as opposed to traditional or classical) its fair that their musical acts are spread thinner across many genres

[–]zesty_mordant 11 points12 points ago

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I thought the UK was more responsible for Punk and Metal

[–]GiveBlood88http://www.last.fm/user/CRSEvan -2 points-1 points ago

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i think the uk had some major acts early on that helped drive the genre forward but everything ive read points to americans as the actual originators of certain characteristic sounds from both genres. its pretty muddy though and in both cases more likely sounds from both sides of the pond influenced each other

[–]ENKCENKC 8 points9 points ago

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Dude, no. Just no.

Black Sabbath. Deep Purple Judas Priest. Motorhead. NWOBHM.

Heavy metal is a British invention. There is no question about it.

[–]GiveBlood88http://www.last.fm/user/CRSEvan 2 points3 points ago

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okay ive read a bit more into this and im gonna have to agree. even most of the proto metal bands like cream, led zeppelin, the kinks, the who, the animals were all british

[–]ENKCENKC -1 points0 points ago

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Good for you. Also, punk rock developed in Australia, Britain and the USA concurrently. Do some research on The Saints.

[–]Riktenkay 0 points1 point ago

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What exactly is it that defines metal as pop music whereas traditional and classical get to be separate? Is it simply the age of the genres?

[–]GiveBlood88http://www.last.fm/user/CRSEvan 0 points1 point ago

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i think thats definitely 1 reason, another might be how the music is performed and distributed, and what its purpose is, which might be more than just entertainment in traditional music's case

[–]aChileanDude 6 points7 points ago

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F-yeah Chile.

also; Chilean thrash metal band NECROSIS on Sabados Gigantes

[–]Thereminz 5 points6 points ago

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Why does chile have more metal bands than the rest of south america?

[–]aChileanDude 7 points8 points ago*

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Long story:

the "mainstream" music genre is the southamerican rock (e.g. rock argentino: GIT, Soda Stereo, etc etc etcn) so most bands in SA choose that way.

But the only "rock" bands in Chile are "Los Prisioneros" (really sheety band IMHO), Los Jaivas (folk-rock-prog) (A MUST VIDEO for the metal fan, check them on ProgArchives), "Los Bunkers" and others.

Most famous bands here are folk/left-wing related so they prefer folk styles and pop-rock influenced because of the events of dictatorships in america around de 70'-80'. (i.e. we the people, the military is evil, blah blah.) So external music not related or not in the same vein of this, i.e. doesn't speak about the suffering of "leftist", not-spanish-language-music, using electrical guitars, and not flutes (... you get it by now...) doesn't have the enough fame to go overground.

After Pinochet's dictatorship (1973-1990) with more "freedom" the metal saw its boom as a rebelion on the authorities.

A LOT of documentaries are made on this issue

-"History of the Chilean Metal"

-"Metal-gate: Monsters in Chile"

TL;DR: mainstream music is sheety and covers every genre, and underground music is mainly metal. In other countries there is a stronger feel of patriotism/"folkism".

PS: Relevant Metal Parody (w/english subs) pretty good song btw.

[–]bo87 9 points10 points ago

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checks username

this guy is legit.

[–]BigTimeOwenOwenOwenOwen 1 point2 points ago

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Chile has a ton of awesome bands.

[–]reduxit 0 points1 point ago

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ese es Don Francisco? jajajajaaa

[–]GeorgePukas 6 points7 points ago

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If you are a swedish citizen, just by existing, you have a ~0.25% chance of being IN a metal band. That's pretty fucking metal.

[–]Ravn000 2 points3 points ago

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That's right. Swedish citizen here. Some of us are just born into it.

[–]Doofdip 0 points1 point ago

För det är över norden vi härskar!

[–]maledictedShaddy 0 points1 point ago

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One of the best comments I've read here, hah.

\m/

[–][deleted] 5 points6 points ago

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Portugal has nice stats, darker than Spain! that's all that matters to us.

[–]KnightEternal 0 points1 point ago

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Quite.

[–]Bronan_the_Brobarian 3 points4 points ago

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Scandi-fuckin-navia

[–]northsider1983 2 points3 points ago

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Much better map. :-]

[–]ZnigmrakTurtlemon 4 points5 points ago

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HEJA NORDEN!

[–]mijazma 2 points3 points ago

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You should have used a bigger piece of the rainbow as gradient, from purple to red. Then the differences and gaps would be far clearer, for inatance the scandinavia being the only purple, and the next highest being merely green, then yellow then orange etc.

[–]Riktenkay 0 points1 point ago

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for inatance the scandinavia being the only purple, and the next highest being merely green

This is not how rainbows work.

[–]mijazma 0 points1 point ago

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Don't be a smartass

[–]Riktenkay 0 points1 point ago

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I can't help it :(

[–]blgdingerwww.last.fm/user/blgdinger 2 points3 points ago

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I'm not trying to hate, because this is sweet compared to version 1.0, but I think the color key needs a slightly wider range of color because it seems like some of them blend too easily. 2¢

[–]czernobog_36http://www.last.fm/user/graf3m3[!] 2 points3 points ago

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There's nowhere near enough Maasai or Zulu metal. Viking Metal is awesome, I'd love to hear some songs about Shaka's campaigns.

[–]pilotoatomico 2 points3 points ago

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since when did all of Shreddit turn into Anthropologists?

[–]GeorgePukas 2 points3 points ago

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So what constitutes a metal band? A signed one? How did they count all those garage/HS bands that people have?

[–]Tedesc0hhh 2 points3 points ago

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I wonder what African metal bands sound like.

[–]KotevGrinder 2 points3 points ago

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Israel is red?! Hell yeah!!! I am actually a vocalist of a Israeli metal band.

[–]me_me_me_me_me_ 6 points7 points ago

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But I thought the USA was # 1 at everything?

[–]Philosotoaster 2 points3 points ago

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Unfortunately this map says nothing about the quality of the metal

[–]TheBB -1 points0 points ago

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A country that's #1 at everything is not #1 in not being #1 at everything.

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[–]BarfingBear 0 points1 point ago

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Are there any other than Tyr?

[–]Zud 2 points3 points ago

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http://www.youtube.com/user/Reyvarholurin?ob=0&feature=results_main That's my old profile on YouTube which I got locked out from, but the SIC songs are still on there. SIC is probably my favourite metal band from the Faroes, and they're a great bunch of guys, too!

Hamferð. I can't seem to find any proper songs on YouTube, just live ones.

The Apocryphal Order.

Synarchy.

Konqueror.

Earth Divide.

And Incurse, that's all I can remember right now.

Other Faroese metal bands that I can remember off the top of my head are Nátt and Hatespeech, and then two heavy rock bands called MC-hár and Flux, but none of those four are together now.

[–]BarfingBear 0 points1 point ago

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Thanks for the list, and I'm impressed at how well you know the scene, but I'm guessing you're from there or spent a significant amount of time there. I finally got around to listening. Incurse sounds like early Metallica reincarnated, and this is good. Hatespeech sounds interesting, too. I'm not a fan of death vocals, so the others didn't do anything for me. Still need to check out the last two. Thanks!

[–]psyroptus 1 point2 points ago

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I would love to see this map with Quebec as a distinct part from canada.

[–]fetusloofah 1 point2 points ago

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That settles it. I'm moving to French Guiana and dominating the metal scene.

[–]McStraussWiffleBallTony 1 point2 points ago

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I'm surprised that Latin America isn't darker. It seems like they're always going crazy over metal.

[–]armedwithturtles 1 point2 points ago

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i thought north korea was the place to go for metal?

[–]neokoros 1 point2 points ago

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Anyone want to move to Africa and start a metal band? We would dominate.

[–]Mr_J_L_B8 1 point2 points ago

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Someone need to decide whether they are using , or . to mean piont because that makes it look like scandinavia have a metal band for every 2 people

[–]The_Shoe_ 3 points4 points ago

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I liked the other one because America was black. This information is fascinating, but the bright colors I do not like!

[–]depo_[S] 12 points13 points ago

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This is the darkest I can make it while keeping it readable. But now the U.S. are brown...

[–]The_Shoe_ 1 point2 points ago

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OP delivers! very nice... I like the blood red on the black a LOT more than the bright red on white! Thanks a lot!

[–]ilostmyoldaccount 0 points1 point ago

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I know what you mean. All things considered, the former map was more relevant IRL. This map is interesting from a different point of view. Smaller extreme countries "excelling" at certain things and the generally known Scandinavian obsession with metal are highlighted here.

I used to like per capita more, but then I reconsidered that. Absolute numbers are better because they reflect influence/developments over time. Whenever I see a stat list (econ., crime, etc.), the absolute numbers are what I look at first to understand the general RL situation.

[–]Ravn000 0 points1 point ago*

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No it doesn't. If you have 100,000,000 people and 1,000,000 metal bands, the genre would have less influence on the country than 100,000 metal bands for 1,000,000 people.

The same with crime. 1,000,000 crimes commited in a country with 1,000,000,000 people is not as bad as 10 crimes in a country with 100.

[–]ilostmyoldaccount 0 points1 point ago

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Yes, that's the interesting thing about per capita. I already said that a few days ago ITT with the absolute map.

You still need to know where you're coming from though. And that only works with absolute numbers.

[–]Ravn000 0 points1 point ago

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where you're coming from

Please elaborate.

[–]ilostmyoldaccount 0 points1 point ago*

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To see how much weight something has. Voting also works this way. Per capita is nowhere near as useful as it's made to be by some. It also fails when using it as GDP per capita as an indicator of average wealth. There are better, more realistic, ways to determine the wealth of a nations's average person than that.

For example, GDP per capita ought to be weighted with http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gini_coefficient to compensate for gross inequality (e.g., billionaires skewing the GDP per capita for millions of "normal" people)

Everything on this map http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/c/c5/GINIretouchedcolors.png that is green and higher, I take with a grain of salt. I can instantly tell that the average Australian, for example, is comparatively better off than the average American once I know their GDP per capita is somewhat comparable.

If I want to know the real-world economic impact, I'll look at the absolute GDP and stop there.

[–]Ravn000 0 points1 point ago

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Yes but these maps are answering two different questions...

Comparing them is like comparing baseball bats and sneakers.

Absolute numbers are better

No absolute numbers show completely different data. It all depends on what you're trying to answer.

[–]ilostmyoldaccount -1 points0 points ago*

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I am a troll who invents quotes to make feeble strawman attacks on something the other person didn't say, don't mind me

Oh, you're trolling. Why didn't you say so from the beginning?

[–]Ravn000 0 points1 point ago

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What?

[–]Ravn000 0 points1 point ago

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In your first post you said "I used to like per capita more, but then I reconsidered that. Absolute numbers are better because they reflect influence/developments over time.".

ಠ_ಠ What is wrong with you? I assure you I am not trolling you, I just don't agree with you. Maybe I'm wrong, but I don't understand your point when you're comparing two things that (as far as I know) have nothing to do with eachother.

Any-who. Good day!

[–]ilostmyoldaccount 0 points1 point ago*

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I explained what I meant, you chose to ignore everything and attack an isolated comment. Just for the sake of arguing. I can't believe I wasted time on this.

[–]DarkDecay 0 points1 point ago

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Pretty cool to see.

[–]kkkssskkksss 0 points1 point ago

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Cool

[–]methcamp 0 points1 point ago

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excellent

[–]sebastian_____ 0 points1 point ago

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why arent there any metal bands in africa?

[–]goug 0 points1 point ago

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I've seen a few in Marocco. They have a free festival in Casablanca with a day dedicated to metal. It's called L'Boulevard.

Some local bands play and some international bands come too. i've seen The Exploited when I was there. Extreme moshpit, the kids had some energy to unleash and the police was there to kick the toughest out of there.

Good times. The year before that, Gojira played...

[–]meatsack70 0 points1 point ago

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No information on those countries.

[–]diadem 0 points1 point ago

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I feel like I'm in Doctor Strangelove or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb. We must not lose the Metal race!

[–]zanycaswell 0 points1 point ago

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That's really cool! just crossposted to /r/dataisbeautiful.

[–]anderssi 0 points1 point ago

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i bet you can draw a correlation between, cold harsh winter, high suicide rates, and this chart. Ofc bunch of other things would have to be taken in consideration as well, or we should see russia and props canada up with the nordic countries as well.

[–]herpin_the_derp 0 points1 point ago

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does anyone want to start a metal band and creat 100,000 spin off projects to boost America's total metal band capita?

[–]ekzor 0 points1 point ago

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Unfortunately that would only raise your bands per 100,000 people by a whopping 1.

[–]herpin_the_derp 0 points1 point ago

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Actually, America is currently at 5.49 if 100,000 metal bands were added you do the math it would be (117246/313847465)*100000 which would be equal to 37.357 which would put America in the orange red.

[–]ekzor 1 point2 points ago

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oh shit. i totally did the math wrong in my head.

scary thing is i have a career in numbers like this. .... not for much longer apparently!

[–]herpin_the_derp 1 point2 points ago

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I had the okay face on for a second but then I had to double check.

[–]imafish16 0 points1 point ago

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africa dont like metal

[–]AlumiuN 0 points1 point ago

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I can't say I didn't expect those red areas, but New Zealand is surprisingly metallic. Especially given I think I've only heard of about 3 NZ metal bands. :D

[–]ilostmyoldaccount 0 points1 point ago

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I was hoping someone would post this

http://www.reddit.com/r/Metal/comments/pynck/i_present_to_you_a_map_of_the_world_based_on_the/c3tfdjk

As expected =)

[–]cosmic_hypercube 0 points1 point ago

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Now on Wikimedia Commons: http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Metal_bands_per_country.png

[–]ShockedSystem 0 points1 point ago

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Slightly more bands in Canada than the US.

VICTORY.

[–]blackened_sunnBlackened_Sunn -1 points0 points ago

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Cool map bro. I still deserve credit for the map that started it all.

[–]depo_[S] 1 point2 points ago

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You're right, I don't know why they are downvoting you.

[–]John_Valjohn -1 points0 points ago*

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Nice try, but as geography student, I have some comments to do :

  • About the second version : following straight cartography rules, you can't change of color type (hot colors : red, yellow orange ect..., cold colors : blue green ect...) if the variable doesn't change, or go negative/positive. There, you start from 0 to 53.2, you have to keep hot or cold colors. But it's a bit mean, and not really important here, the essential is that your map has to be easily readable, no matter the colors.
  • About the calcul method : why did you choose a band per 100.000 peoples ? I'll be interested to know.
  • About the map in general : I think it should be a better idea to do this map by city. Since i'm listining metal, i've noticied that it's more a question a city than country, metal is more urban and there is some large difference between cities of same population size in one country. This way we could have a map of the "hot point" of worldwide metal. But I know it's harder, that mean digging deep metal archives database and hard boring work.

Also, to people who are asking about why scandinavia is a place where there's a shit load a metal bands, it's also a question of educational system : english and music are teached very very early, more than others european countries (for example: in france, if you don't take in count club or association, you have to wait to be 12 years old to learn flute at school. In sweden they give you a guitar at 6 !). The fact that people have more musical habilities and an easier access to english speaking culture (heavy metal and rock'n'roll culture roots) can be an explaination to metal's vivacity in these places, but not shitty explaination about blood or crap like that.

[–]TheBruno[!] -1 points0 points ago

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Canada has more metal than the US? Interesting.

[–]gibletsandsyrup -5 points-4 points ago

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Haha, cool experiment. I, too, have often wondered how many times in a row the same content could be submitted to Shreddit and still be upvoted. I'll be watching this with interest.

[–]SeraphicRage -4 points-3 points ago

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Hmmm I guess one could say that the concentration of Heavy Metal in these countries removes sunglasses is quite dense. YYYEAAAAAAAAHHH

[–]Picea_germanus -2 points-1 points ago

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Wow, I just wrote out a few long, drawn out equations to disprove this. Turns out I was reading "100.000" as "100". Anyway, OP's source for bands/country is the Encyclopaedia Metallum, which also lists defunct bands.

[–]methcamp 1 point2 points ago

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i think it would be hard to get a list of current bands since there are so many obscure randomly heard of bands, maybe the "defunct" bands balances that out .

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