Im from Tunisia, and i think the metal scene here is going from bad to worse !!! I mean the audience, it's really disturbing to see little kids around with all their problems, fights and every stupid thing !!! They say that it was pretty much better before (im into metal since 04 so i don't know what was going before), so it's really really disturbing !! maybe it's MY problem only. abt bands, there are some pretty good bands growing up, and some other just fucking suck !!! the indie and reggae scene is growing up, the number of fans is getting bigger, loads of people are stopped listening to metal (for some reason !!! ) and getting into those kinda music !!
but the main problem still the PA thing !! we don't have big bands coming over, we had once a metal festival (just one single edition) it was in august 07, we had After Forever,Adagio, Firewind...and back in 06 we had Robert Plant in Guitar Festival (which i missed
) ,Epica, Dream Theater would come in march 08 but they couldn't deal with them for a certain financial problems. I hope they will orgonize another metal fest and bring some cool bands too !!! and stop bringing some "symphonic metal" bands !!!! OMG! ! BRING FUCKING OPETH !!!!!!!
ah and i forgot about the other scenes, LOADS of people are more interested in techno/rnb/hip hop/electro/arabic music !!! we have a a Jazz festival in summer, i wanna go there next summer coz it's interesting i think !! i red some good reviews ! and that's it :] I hope we will get some cool bands next march in Guitar Festival, like Comus and Opeth playing !! omg ! that would be dream came true.