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Re:The Weird Global Appeal of Heavy Metal by vidarh on Tuesday February 23, 2016 @07:03AM (#11158261)
It has a level of appeal globally, but not enough to be mainstream most places.

E.g. the top Norwegian death metal bands are amongst the most successful Norwegian musicians ever, yet they don't sell much at home. Yet they do extremely well by Norwegian standards because they sell ok all over the world.

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Re:The Weird Global Appeal of Heavy Metal by vezzy-fnord on Tuesday February 23, 2016 @07:41AM (#11158464)
I presume you're referring to Norwegian black metal. Norway doesn't have a lot of DM, in fact the only band that comes to mind is Vomit from the 80s.
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Re:The Weird Global Appeal of Heavy Metal by roryrjb on Tuesday February 23, 2016 @08:28AM (#11158670)
Darkthrone's Soulside Journey is great Norwegian death metal, not that they obviously stuck to that for very long.
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Re:The Weird Global Appeal of Heavy Metal by werid on Tuesday February 23, 2016 @08:02AM (#11158551)
We are definitely more known for our "true norwegian" black metal, but we got some other stuff too...

http://www.last.fm/tag/norwegian+death+metal/artists

http://www.last.fm/tag/norwegian+thrash+metal/artists

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Re:The Weird Global Appeal of Heavy Metal by vidarh on Saturday February 27, 2016 @10:40AM (#11187347)
Quite possible - I don't listen to any of it, just going by memory of mass media articles.
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Re:The Weird Global Appeal of Heavy Metal by cholantesh on Tuesday February 23, 2016 @09:39AM (#11159058)
Wasn't even aware of them. My favourite is probably Chton, though their work after Chtonian Lifecode has been spotty at best.
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Re:The Weird Global Appeal of Heavy Metal by r721 on Tuesday February 23, 2016 @07:56AM (#11158529)
Speaking of Norwegian DM from 90s I think Cadaver and Fester are quite great.
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