Metal bands expressed in terms of population, from Steve Sailer.
Related: the article in Witches & Pagans on “Viking Chick Kaboom,” in which Madder Mortem and Nightwish, among others, figure prominently.
Metal bands expressed in terms of population, from Steve Sailer.
Related: the article in Witches & Pagans on “Viking Chick Kaboom,” in which Madder Mortem and Nightwish, among others, figure prominently.
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Poverty is apparently not conducive to metal. A little surprised not to see Japan higher up there: weren’t they the only nation to purchase Lou Reed’s stick-it-to-the-record-company-contract project Metal Machine Music? And what’s up with Bhutan?
The Bhutan color may be an artifact of the mapping process.
Yeah, that’s my guess too. But isn’t it more fun to assume that Bhutanese metal is off the charts?
Strange Maps picked this one up, with commentary:
http://bigthink.com/strange-maps/560-a-world-map-of-heavy-metal-density
Someone once described the distribution of HM to me as
“Everywhere east of Prague but west of China, and everywhere north of Stoke-on-Trent. Oh, and Pittsburgh”
Unfortunately, the map doesn’t really match that.
I guess the idea of *east of Prague and north of Stoke-on-Trent* is supposed to indicate sort of European-but-unsophisticated.