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I'd say Sweden of course. If the discussion was about Black Metal only there would be heavy competition. But most of the other subgenres, We have more bands it seems. Cant name a single good Heavy or Doom metal band from Norway without doing research first. And not to forget, It's not unusual here to laugh at the entire music industry in Norway. (With BM left out of that)

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I was comparing different sounds. You are chosing anyway one swedish (DF) and one norwegian (CF). So you can't make a choise as well

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I'd say Sweden of course. If the discussion was about Black Metal only there would be heavy competition. But most of the other subgenres, We have more bands it seems. Cant name a single good Heavy or Doom metal band from Norway without doing research first. And not to forget, It's not unusual here to laugh at the entire music industry in Norway. (With BM left out of that)
Well you have twice as many people in Sweden for one thing and second:ABBA. You lose it all right there. ;p No one laughs at Sweden in Norway but maybe we should start...hehe.
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Needless? Off time? Sorry' date=' but this is bullshit. No one before used intensive and heavy downtuning this way in the large-scale. There's a big difference between playing in B and F#, despite it seems to be "nearly the same". What hardcore influences can you see in called "djent" bands?[/quote'] I'm talking about Meshuggah worship bands, not Meshuggah themselves. With Meshuggah, it flows as a consequence of their songwriting, but the downtuning and needless off-time passages are just a gimmick thrown in because Meshuggah is popular right now. The addition of those elements to most of these modern bands really adds nothing, except that it maybe makes them sound even more soulless and dull.
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I'd say Sweden of course. If the discussion was about Black Metal only there would be heavy competition. But most of the other subgenres, We have more bands it seems. Cant name a single good Heavy or Doom metal band from Norway without doing research first. And not to forget, It's not unusual here to laugh at the entire music industry in Norway. (With BM left out of that)
Two words.....O, Peth:Dhehe. It does not matter if Norway beats Sweden in quantity of good bands, Sweden has Opeth, which alone beats out approximately 2,227+ great bands from Norway combined.......heh
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Two words.....O' date=' Peth:Dhehe. It does not matter if Norway beats Sweden in quantity of good bands, Sweden has Opeth, which alone beats out approximately 2,227+ great bands from Norway combined.......heh[/quote'] Motorpsycho, currently, kicks Opeth's ass. Norge 1, Sverige 0. Heh...
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Two words.....O' date=' Peth:Dhehe. It does not matter if Norway beats Sweden in quantity of good bands, Sweden has Opeth, which alone beats out approximately 2,227+ great bands from Norway combined.......heh[/quote'] You know, I used to love Opeth. Now... Well My Arms Your Hearse is still one of my favorite albums, but I think a lot of their stuff is monumentally overrated.
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Hyperbole and competitive fervor aside' date=' I pretty much agree with Mindy. Opeth up through Ghost Reveries is phenomenal. I've been a fan for seventeen years, and I've recently gotten back into Orchid in a big way.[/quote'] I do really enjoy Ghost Reveries. I used to love Blackwater Park, but revisiting it it feels boring to me. Basically Orchid, My Arms Your Hearse and Ghost Reveries are the only ones I listen to much now. Although I've been meaning to revisit Still Life as I never gave it much thought for some reason. I still haven't listened to Pale Communion all the way through.
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I'm kind of in agreement with you on Blackwater Park, but honestly, I've gone through periods where I couldn't listen to them at all and periods where each of their first, say, eight albums was my favorite. I haven't made it all the way through either Heritage or Pale Communion, despite starting a few times, and I thought Watershed sucked. I think they're a band I'll always be going back to.

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I'm kind of in agreement with you on Blackwater Park' date=' but honestly, I've gone through periods where I couldn't listen to them at all and periods where each of their first, say, eight albums was my favorite. I haven't made it all the way through either Heritage or Pale Communion, despite starting a few times, and I thought Watershed sucked. I think they're a band I'll always be going back to.[/quote'] Watershed had some decent tracks but feels tired (which makes since as Åkerfeldt was getting bored with death metal). I didn't hate Heritage - there were actually a couple of tracks I enjoyed a good bit - but it definitely was not a favorite, and I sort of lost interest after that.
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Watershed had some decent tracks but feels tired (which makes since as Åkerfeldt was getting bored with death metal). I didn't hate Heritage - there were actually a couple of tracks I enjoyed a good bit - but it definitely was not a favorite' date=' and I sort of lost interest after that.[/quote'] Sense* Tapatalk won't let me edit my post for some reason.
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I do really enjoy Ghost Reveries. I used to love Blackwater Park' date=' but revisiting it it feels boring to me. Basically Orchid, My Arms Your Hearse and Ghost Reveries are the only ones I listen to much now. Although I've been meaning to revisit Still Life as I never gave it much thought for some reason. I still haven't listened to Pale Communion all the way through.[/quote'] Still Life is wonderful, I like it second to MAYH. Specifically the tracks serenity painted death and moonlapse vertigo.
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Well you have twice as many people in Sweden for one thing and second:ABBA. You lose it all right there. ;p No one laughs at Sweden in Norway but maybe we should start...hehe.
Its a sad thing we are more or less indoctrinated joking about Norway. Abba is a name I rather dont speak loud about.......:D
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Well you have twice as many people in Sweden for one thing and second:ABBA. You lose it all right there. ;p No one laughs at Sweden in Norway but maybe we should start...hehe.
Its a sad thing we are more or less indoctrinated joking about Norway. Abba is a name I rather dont speak loud about.......:D
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I myself like Melodic Death Metal very much and so a place like Sweden with the city of Gothenburg in it that spawned bands such as In Flames, and a lot more that are big in the Melodeth area, as well as bands that aren't Melodeth like Hammerfall that are also very awesome indeed. Norway however has the city of Oslo in it, which has thrown many fantastic Black Metal bands into the world such as Mayhem which I also like very much. The sheer diversity of Metal that comes from Sweden though, does mean for me that it is the better place for Metal, although Scandinavia is a brilliant place in terms of Metal bands

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