carnut said:
Yeah, it's nice to see Metal is everywhere, like you are from Costa Rica, Zep from South Africa, not countries we directly link to Metal ....
Is awsome how music, metal in particular has been growing worldwide moreover after the development of the WWW.
I remember when I started back in 83 it was only vinyls and tapes made in Guatemala under license from Europe. So most bands came out really late, and I had my Black Sabbath from Vertigo and my Iron Maiden from EMI. As an example "Live Evil" came out here as a single vinyl (half the recording).
As for info only mags from USA, or late issues of Metal Hammer translated in Spain.
Little by little some stores begin to brought stuff from USA and even Europe.
In the old days I maybe got 5-6 albums a year. Nowdays I'm getting 3-4 albums a month (now I had slowed down due to lack of funding
)
Also recently some well known bands finally toured across here. Since my childhood I remember three concerts before the recent events: Jethro Tull, Deep Purple, Rick Wakeman (also Bon Jovi and Aerosmith, but I don't count those ones
).
Rata Blanca, Helloween, Gamma Ray/Masterplan, Kreator, Cannibal Corpse, Sepultura all have played here (sadly I missed all because I was in USA
)
Nowdays with online purchasing, websites, MP3s etc, is pretty easy to know what's going on in metal and to get it.