Originally Posted by The Batlord

I'd also kinda like to challenge the US as top dog. We have 300 million people. It would be pretty sad if we hadn't produced a lot of great bands. Unfortunately we also tend to produce incredibly bloated sub genres with vast amounts of crap. Melodic metalcore? Hair metal? Nu-metal? How many thrash bands were there? And most of them just sounded like the last fifty? I think the US may have a bigger percentage of crap than any other country.