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Old 03-25-2015, 11:53 AM   #51 (permalink)
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Lord! Obviously I can't get an overall idea of a country's scene in six-odd bands, I know that. But it would be more of a balanced look than just taking one subgenre. It just shows the different types of metal each country has to offer. Anyway, it's not meant to be totally representative of the country, just an idea, the same as I don't expect to fill someone in totally on Star Trek in just one month. I do what I can, being limited by time.
But if a country's metal community is dominated by a thriving black metal scene, and you cover a bunch of other metal bands that are really only outliers -- basically ignoring the main scene -- then are you really doing the country justice?
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