I've been thinking about this for awhile...
The U.K. had the pioneers: Black Sabbath, Deep Purple, etc.
The USA had the most popular heavy metal and hard rock bands of the next decade like Metallica, Megadeth, Slayer, Anthrax, etc. in the 80s.
The U.K. had many of the pioneers of extreme music during this time - Napalm Death, Carcass, Cathedral, even Iron Maiden was a huge influence on later acts even though they weren't as extreme.
An English speaking Canadian dude started one of the heaviest bands of all time:
I find an Australian band doing the heaviest version of the metalcore shit a lot of the young kids are into:
I realize there are outliers such as -
Norway in the early 1990s, although Venom was a band from the U.K. and they coined the term black metal and influenced much of went on around that second wave.
Brazil - Sarcofago was way ahead of their time with extreme blasphemy and Sepultura outdid Slayer in the late 80s to early 90s at their own style.
Sweden - Meshuggah is on their own page and the melodic death metal scene is interesting, but not as balls to the wall as the heavier genres.
If you include punk and hardcore it really is the English speaking dudes that are fucking pissed off. There are plenty of other brutal non-English speaking bands I can produce as counter-examples, but English speaking countries really seem to dominate and influence others when it comes to this kind of music.
The U.K. had the pioneers: Black Sabbath, Deep Purple, etc.
The USA had the most popular heavy metal and hard rock bands of the next decade like Metallica, Megadeth, Slayer, Anthrax, etc. in the 80s.
The U.K. had many of the pioneers of extreme music during this time - Napalm Death, Carcass, Cathedral, even Iron Maiden was a huge influence on later acts even though they weren't as extreme.
An English speaking Canadian dude started one of the heaviest bands of all time:
I find an Australian band doing the heaviest version of the metalcore shit a lot of the young kids are into:
I realize there are outliers such as -
Norway in the early 1990s, although Venom was a band from the U.K. and they coined the term black metal and influenced much of went on around that second wave.
Brazil - Sarcofago was way ahead of their time with extreme blasphemy and Sepultura outdid Slayer in the late 80s to early 90s at their own style.
Sweden - Meshuggah is on their own page and the melodic death metal scene is interesting, but not as balls to the wall as the heavier genres.
If you include punk and hardcore it really is the English speaking dudes that are fucking pissed off. There are plenty of other brutal non-English speaking bands I can produce as counter-examples, but English speaking countries really seem to dominate and influence others when it comes to this kind of music.