Everybody so there's gonna be a special filler week video
Now one thing that transcends all cultures and boundaries in this world is music and one genre that has been surprisingly successful
Globally is metal now growing up
I always kind of thought that metal was like dark scary evil music and although some metal bands do get kind of dark
Not all of it is and there are so many different types of metal
But the one thing that unites them is the music style highly amplified distortion extended guitar solos and Phatak beats and overall loudness now
I personally like Mesa metal, but I am by no means a metalhead or a metal expert
However, I do know what guy and I think you know him my music go-to guy Keith. Hey
Sup, y'all. It's now Keith. You like all different types of music. Not just metal, right? Yeah. I do, you know anything from jazz blues?
classical music bit of my musical background history
I started playing bass when I was
14 years old and I started immediately started studying with a guy named Dave LaRue
So would you consider yourself a metal expert or at least a metal connoisseur? I?
Have been listening to metal bands since I was in eighth grade
So I think I had know a thing or two about it. You can you can hold room
I can hold my own ground Keith. Just kind of explain what is metal. Music. How did it start late 60s early 70s
it started off like from bands from like the UK like
You know deep purple Black
Sabbath bang called UFO with Michael Schenker and stuff like that Tony Iommi the guitar player of Black Sabbath
he was working on some machine and his hand got caught imagine losing these two in order for him to
Continue to play he tuned down his guitar, which also helped develop the the heavy heavier sound
He was kind of a pioneer in a way. Yeah, definitely and Keith
Why do you think so many people across the world just like metal music?
It's basically an escape from reality, you know for some people and it's a great way to you know
Feel a sense of community. Alright cool. So we're gonna get into this talking about metal around the world
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Alright, so little disclaimer
There are some bands that we will talk about that are not necessarily metal bands
And also there is a lot of bands in the great big planet Earth. So we
can't cover all of them and if you want to mention any other
Bands write them in the comments
And also another thing is to if you can and if you like the band's record buy it right support the artists
That's my own little disclaimer
Pirating is bad. Alright, let's start off with the first continent our home continent North America, right?
so obviously North America the USA and Canada lead the charts with the most metal bands and metal per capita surprisingly though Mexico also holds
Their ground with metal bands as well. It's actually kind of a growing Latin metal movement going on right now
Definitely some very prominent metal bands that have come out of North America have been bands such as Metallica
Megadeth Pantera didn't like hair metal start in the west coast like California or some like that. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah
I mean van Halen and Motley Crue and yeah, I mean bands like rat in
Poison and all that stuff that all started right here on the Sunset Strip
So by the way, such prominent Canadian bands would be 3 inches of blood gore guts
Nickelback is
One of the greatest metal pants who have ever existed
I didn't say that now South America. So as far as South America is concerned
Brazil and Argentina or the powerhouses that they lead the charts, right?
Well considering you know got a great grandmother that was born in Rio de Janeiro proud Portuguese family history
Starting off with Christian Christians awesome. Definitely should check him out. Also Sepultura is a
Massive band from Brazil now Argentina is a little interesting from my research. This guy poeple from the band RIF
He was kind of like the predecessor to what would later become Argentine middle
Chile has door so and then crackin is also probably one of the most well known bands out of Colombia
There's a really very very very very popular music festival in
Brazil it's called rock and Rio and hundreds of thousands of Brazilians show up
There's always great bands Iron Maiden played it one year, you know
It's funny because it's like yeah Brasilia you think it's just like Samba and like a little bossa nova
but no they got a huge metal movement going on and now we go across the sea to
Europe Keith, if you could describe the difference between European metal versus American metal, what would you say?
They actually have Viking blood so they're not faking at all
So Germany actually has the most metal bands. Come on. Everybody knows Rammstein a
Rammstein Rammstein nonetheless nordic countries also top having the most
Metal bands per capita. Hence my very first episode which I was in fun story
Yeah, when I first met Keith, I didn't know how he was gonna be on the show
but then I realized there was a part in the script where I said all the other Nordic countries are like
well, Finland is like
My Keith can you do a metal growl?
Yeah, that was his first line. And since then I was like this guy has to be on the show
Yeah, Finland has over
630 per million inhabitants
Which is more than anywhere else in the world for metal band everywhere you go cafes shops
Stores restaurants metal is playing
There was even a metal band from Finland that won Eurovision
Lordi
Children of Bodom one of my most listened to metal bands of 9th grade
And our Finland is also home to my favorite metal band of all time
Apocalyptica, they use electric cellos. I think that's awesome apocalyptic
all day they are talent Meshugga is also very
prominent
Scandinavian metal band o path and surprisingly greece has quite a growing metal scene
They are the largest market in the Balkans and South Europe
Europeans take metal pretty seriously. It's it's very strong in Europe. Definitely and now we go to East and South Asia
so in Asia, Japan is the
Number one metal country when you leave North America and Europe they bring they tend to bring in more traditional
Instruments into metal and it sounds really cool
Yeah, and there's a bunch of cool bands that do that stuff one that I know of
They're not completely metal, but they do some metal songs is what gawky band
They use the Japanese shamisen and a lot of their music maximum the hormone from Japan you introduced me today. Yeah, either way
It's a great band check out their music videos. They got some trippy stuff going on
I might not be the biggest fan of babymetal, but the backing band for babymetal is full of
extremely talented
Musicians Malaysia and Indonesia have been embracing metal for a long time now and it gets really cool the Indonesian president
He's actually a huge fan of metal
And also I know metal bands such as Lamb of God and Megadeth whenever they tour Indonesia
They personally invite him to come to all the shows. That's kind of a cool thing
I think president of Indonesia
although it's still kind of frowned upon to play metal in Indonesia that has not stopped a bunch of bands and you can't forget about
VOB who's led by three school girls and they wear hijabs. Hijab' metal. Go figure
Anybody's allowed India also has a very massive metal scene
So you have bands like Sky Harbor which are very popular bloody wood and even though she's not a metal musician
She does a lot of metal covers. I'm a huge fan of rtj. She's the first female
Professional bagpiper in all of India any of those not as prevalent. I really want to mention a Mongolian metal
It's really cool because sometimes they mix their traditional overtone
throat-singing with metal and it fuses so well for example here is the who
And now the Middle East because many of the countries adhere to a stricter form of Islamic law many metal bands have trouble kind of
Performing. It's kind of hard to be a metal musician and many times they have to perform underground
So there's also been metal bands in the Middle East who have been arrested and punished
For playing this particular style of music in Saudi Arabia. There's actually a band called Al Nam ruled
They have to go completely
undercover and anonymous and that's just kind of how they
Perpetuate their music through an amenity so that the government doesn't know who they are
In fact, there was a very popular band called rasa cava from Iraq
They actually had to flee Iraq during all the crazy stuff that happened recently and now they are refugees in the US and today
Israel and Lebanon are the lead metal scene countries in the Middle East
It's a lot easier to play in these two countries and the Emirates and Bahrain have their own bands that play freely as well
There's a band from Dubai called Aramaic. They mix like a cereal Babylonian sound to their songs as well. And what's really cool
There's another band called Crescent
They actually made a song with some lyrics that are actually in real spoken ancient Egyptian hieroglyphs first band to ever do that
I
Hope at some point it can be there can be a slight
shined on it and people can go out and perform their music that they want to play and now
Africa Africa is kind of like the last frontier. There's a lot of metal bands that are now sprouting up specifically in South Africa
There's a huge black metal scene in the southern part South Africa is the largest market in northern Africa
Morocco and Tunisia and Egypt are the largest markets
Ok, such bands from South Africa would include juggernaut Seether, which is actually a popular band here in the States
Yeah, funny thing is there is a fast growing community in Botswana as well bands
like skinflint over thrust crack dust and it's funny because the fans also they have this weird like
Cowboy metal look to them they wear like that the hats and everything now
There's a cool one at teen are UN from Mali and Algeria. They play metal with traditional Berber instruments. Alright, and
We have Oceana
basically, Australia in New Zealand
So basically because they have close ties to Europe and the Americas
No, it's no surprise that middle kind of grew here as well
As far far as Australia goes you have bands like ac/dc if you want to consider them a metal band
They're more of like a rock band. But hey, whatever it all be one of the biggest things to come out of Australia, right?
Parkway Drive, twelve foot Ninja plenty who's an amazing instrumental guitarist and you're drew Smith room
He's yeah talented now
I asked a lot of you guys the Kiwi subscribers to mention some qe bands from New Zealand some of you guys mentioned things like
ulcer
It died occlusion and almost every single one of you mentioned
Alien weaponry and how they're very unique because they actually speak the Moldy language in their songs is in the world
Awesome for my eyes green, you know you have like hazel eyes
So that was all the inhabited continents before we end this video Keith's top bands go
Okay, so my favorite bands of all time
They're not all metal bands, by the way. Hi. Well, I wouldn't say all of all time
I would say for basically today the top bands that I listen to that. I'm listening that's on rotation right now the police Pink Floyd
Led Zeppelin Opeth plenty
monuments return forever the Mahavishnu Orchestra
Iron Maiden and then we're gonna just do 10 because I can go on forever, right but my all-time all-time
favorite band ever in the existence of mankind this huge
amazing
band
Would be rush rush. Yeah rush is my all-time favorite band
Oh, if you listen through their whole entire discography, they've always been evolving as a band. They've always used brought in new technologies
into their music
but to be a band also for 40 years be able to go out on tour sell out arenas all across the planet and
Stadiums for that matter. I think they're a great band any last things you want to say
What do you think the world needs to know about metal? It's just not even just beyond metal
I would say it's just this just goes for listen to music in general all music, you know always keep your ears open
You know, don't be afraid to listen to new things
Because your friends thinks a certain style of music might be dumb or whatever develop your own personal taste
Don't let other people tell you what and what not to listen to
There is validity in all forms of music in all forms of self-expression great works
Thanks guys, hope you have a good one stay cool stay tuned