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One of the many things I love about metal is how much a band's location has to do with their sound. My roommate and I were just talking a few weeks ago about that, how when you hear a song from a band new to you one of the first things you ask is where they are from, which is a train of thought I find quite unique to metal (a little with rap as well, to a certain extent). I don't know if I have much of a convicted stance on which scene is "better" but I think I find myself listening to the Florida bands more, newer and classics. I'm big into the local scenes in Florida particularly Miami and Tampa/St Petersberg. A LOT of great bands are making noise down there like Orbweaver, Shroud Eater, Cosm, Set & Setting, Holly Hunt, and Maruta to name just a few

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Nice to hear a voice from down there' date=' I'm acquainted with bands up here but the only one I've heard off your list is Maruta.[/quote'] Many of them are doom type acts, Set & Setting is instrumental post rock a'la Pelican, but from the little bit I know of your tastes I think you may enjoy Orbweaver a bit. Kinda avant-garde death-ish stuff with slightly black elements Plus the guitarist Sally Gates is a goddamned fox
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One of the many things I love about metal is how much a band's location has to do with their sound. My roommate and I were just talking a few weeks ago about that, how when you hear a song from a band new to you one of the first things you ask is where they are from, which is a train of thought I find quite unique to metal (a little with rap as well, to a certain extent). I don't know if I have much of a convicted stance on which scene is "better" but I think I find myself listening to the Florida bands more, newer and classics. I'm big into the local scenes in Florida particularly Miami and Tampa/St Petersberg. A LOT of great bands are making noise down there like Orbweaver, Shroud Eater, Cosm, Set & Setting, Holly Hunt, and Maruta to name just a few
I don't think that location just applies to metal at all. I hear terms all the time like "Chicago blues", "southern rock", "east coast hip-hop", etc... It seems to be a pretty big deal in the hardcore punk community as well, as NYHC, west coast hardcore, Japanese hardcore, Swedish d-beat, west coast crust, Italian hardcore, etc... all seem to have very different sounds that are tied together by region.
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I've seen some great shows there, Enslaved, Immolation with Belphegor, Katatonia (not their best live appearance but I was excited to see them). It's also where I discovered I don't like Insomnium or Swallow The Sun, and that new Rotting Christ is pretty lame.
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Morbid Angel > Suffocation > Most of the other bands. In terms of sheer influence Morbid Angel more or less was the most influential dm band, most bands owe their existence to them, but Suffo is likely the most relevant bands having more or less inspired brutal death metal, deathcore, and technical death metal (along with latter-era Death). Morbid Angel were Homo Erectus, and Suffocation became the modern hominid that them music would later become

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