What a strange article. It obviously has appeal because it&#x27;s amazing and it&#x27;s far from weird because the metal scene has always been very international.
&quot;I like Metal&quot; is also similar to saying &quot;I work in AI&quot;. There&#x27;s tons of sub genres. I enjoy the more &quot;melodic&quot; stuff (Savatage, best band of all times).<p>What I thought was interesting: back in roughly 2000 the word &quot;Metal&quot; had a different vibe to it in the U.S. compared to Europe. I think the popular use of the term in the U.S. tended to include stuff I&#x27;d call Rock. My guess would be that the common mainstream answer to &quot;name a metal band&quot; would probably have been something like Iron Maiden in Europe and maybe Led Zeppelin in the U.S.
+it seems like Black and Death Metal were much more common&#x2F;represented in the European scene. Once again strange because most of the DM bands I liked at the time (still do of course) are from the U.S.
I feel like my view could be highly distorted so I&#x27;d love some feedback on this.<p>I think it&#x27;s also interesting that some U.S. bands are superstars in the European Metal scene or parts of it but seem to be fairly unrecognized in the U.S. (Savatage, Iced Earth).<p>South America has a huge Metal scene, too. I think it&#x27;s mostly similar to the European one.
Don&#x27;t know much about Asia other than the fact that some German bands are really popular in Japan (Blind Guardian etc.)