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Everyone will mention their niche obscure metal band from Indonesia, Japan and Nepal, but you realize as you think for 2 seconds it's off topic. The topic isn't whether there are any metal bands at all in those areas but why as a general phenomenon it's a genre that hasn't at all inspired and generated good/to great metal bands.
Japan (or S.Korea) for e.g. is very similar to the West socio-economically: they've had a society that welcomes individualism and iconoclast artists, no theocratic religious govnmt police, they've had a comfortable middle class, which is wealthy enough where a kid can ask his parents for a guitar and studio records growing up...
And although it's been a limited window, other developing countries like India, or the Philippines, Nepal, Thailand, Middle-East, Iran... have now received the influences of globalization for a while, so the internet, YouTube, Facebook, major concerts played in their cities, vast amounts of expats for many decades now... but still globally SUCK tbh and haven't produced a slue of world class metal bands as may've been reasonably anticipated.
WHY IS THAT ????????????!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Everyone will mention their niche obscure metal band from Indonesia, Japan and Nepal, but you realize as you think for 2 seconds it's off topic. The topic isn't whether there are any metal bands at all in those areas but why as a general phenomenon it's a genre that hasn't at all inspired and generated good/to great metal bands.
Japan (or S.Korea) for e.g. is very similar to the West socio-economically: they've had a society that welcomes individualism and iconoclast artists, no theocratic religious govnmt police, they've had a comfortable middle class, which is wealthy enough where a kid can ask his parents for a guitar and studio records growing up...
And although it's been a limited window, other developing countries like India, or the Philippines, Nepal, Thailand, Middle-East, Iran... have now received the influences of globalization for a while, so the internet, YouTube, Facebook, major concerts played in their cities, vast amounts of expats for many decades now... but still globally SUCK tbh and haven't produced a slue of world class metal bands as may've been reasonably anticipated.
WHY IS THAT ????????????!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!