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?

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

Also wtf South Africa.

South Africa wins best bandname.

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

Do you have a higher resolution picture?

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

South Africa looks like a cat walked across the keyboard

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?"

Visions Of Atlantis in a land locked country.

Monthly views:

Surprised to see New Zealand on the map.

All this proves to me is that the global takeover by Metal is nearly finished, soon the whole world will be metal!

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

Of course Japan has Baby Metal as their top Metal band.

And I'm a huge fan of Within Temptation. If I could only recommend one song for this entire graphic, its A Demons Fate by Within Temptation

I was not disappointed when I zoomed in on France.

Anyone have a playlist with a song from each?

Brazil is as expected

I'm surprised by the lack of Iron Maiden

Thanks for including small countries!

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

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

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

Destiny Potato with the Party Cannon energy.

Kinda surprised sabaton beats amon amarth

Jinjer is amazing. Her voice has such a range

amerca rocking the dad metal also singapore are bad asses!

take a look at persefone, really good band from andorra

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

Cool.

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

Australia knows what’s up.

Signed, an American.

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

Looking at the blank Sahara region:

May the Metalocalypse be upon you!

Wormrot is the best on the list, hands down.

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

if It is be English language It without a doubt would be bedwetters (in Estonia)

Vision of Atlantis? Never heard if, and I am Austrian.

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

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

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.

WTF is Awakening Sun :D

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

Something seems sus here...

No two countries have the same favorites?

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 ^^

Scandanavia and India are the only continents with taste.

Since when is pop music considered metal? Oh, you mean Ride the Lightning and such...

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.