{"id":4025,"date":"2012-04-03T17:18:01","date_gmt":"2012-04-03T23:18:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=4025"},"modified":"2012-04-03T18:13:37","modified_gmt":"2012-04-04T00:13:37","slug":"the-geography-of-metal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=4025","title":{"rendered":"The Geography of Metal"},"content":{"rendered":"

Metal bands expressed in terms of population,<\/a> from Steve Sailer.<\/p>\n

Related: the article in Witches & Pagans<\/em> on “Viking Chick Kaboom,” <\/a>in\u00a0 which Madder Mortem<\/a>\u00a0 and Nightwish<\/a>, among others, figure prominently.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Metal bands expressed in terms of population, from Steve Sailer. Related: the article in Witches & Pagans on “Viking Chick Kaboom,” in\u00a0 which Madder Mortem\u00a0 and Nightwish, among others, figure prominently.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[138,34,175,176],"class_list":["post-4025","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-finland","tag-music","tag-norway","tag-sweden"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6xQTg-12V","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":2324,"url":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=2324","url_meta":{"origin":4025,"position":0},"title":"Quick Review: ‘Pagan Metal’","author":"Chas S. 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