it seems pretty quiet in this metal section

[paulrawnerve]

sooooooo..

okay, don't really know how to liven it up, but maybe the people who post in here can serve up a big list of their favourite bands and maybe give us some common ground...

i'm mostly into the extreme side of things, death/black/grind but like a lot of other things as well..

main bands for me though are

meshuggah, necrophagist, enslaved, emperor, botch, catharsis, gorguts, ion dissonance, behold...the arctopus, psyopus, mincing fury and guttural clammour of queer decay (stupid name, incredible band), devourment, gorgoroth, marduk, belenos, windir...

billions more, but that's a good start.

[DudeAsInCool]

Im told that the European Metal bands are currently at the top of the game...

[paulrawnerve]

more or less..

for death/thrash stuff it's generally the swedish who are the most popular..

for black metal it's norway and sweden

for grind, i'd say the czech republic and the UK have a lot to offer

and france are coming up on the outside as a bit of an underdog too recently.

to be honest though, the country that is doing the most for extreme metal is canada, there are some insanely technical and boundary pushing bands coming out of there at the moment.