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Jimbo

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Posted: February 24 2009 at 02:55

I may be biased, but Finland it is.

Each country has its good bands though...

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Posted: February 24 2009 at 19:26

They're all amazing.

Dim

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Posted: February 24 2009 at 21:16

The T wrote:

^Oh come on! It's unfair to bring the most ridiculous photo shoot ever to the conversation!

I don't know what they were thinking. They don't ;look evil but extremely ridiculous. many norwegian black metal albums have covers and pics that are quite scary or freakish... But Immortal.. they just never could do it...

Their music, though, is brilliant, the great Pure Holocaust and At the Heart of Winter and the great last album with one of the best riffs ever, the one in Tyrants.

I've always wanted to try listening to them, but have been too afraid... Do you think I would like them?

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Posted: February 25 2009 at 01:41

Dim wrote:

The T wrote:

^Oh come on! It's unfair to bring the most ridiculous photo shoot ever to the conversation!

Their music, though, is brilliant, the great Pure Holocaust and At the Heart of Winter and the great last album with one of the best riffs ever, the one in Tyrants.

I've always wanted to try listening to them, but have been too afraid... Do you think I would like them?

If you have any soft spot for black metal, Immortal is one of the best of them

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Posted: February 25 2009 at 04:24

Immortal is by far the most melodic of the classic BM bands, and as such pretty approachable, with Emperor coming second. But unlike those Immortal are also good, not just approachable.

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Posted: February 25 2009 at 10:09

Sweden

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Posted: February 27 2009 at 12:58

Sweden, easily!

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Posted: March 02 2009 at 08:14

Now that the thread is moved from prog-to general music discussions, my nordic top three changes from:

Sweden
Finland
Norway

to

Sweden
Norway
Finland

Over land and under ashes
In the sunlight, see - it flashes
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But don't believe in me
Don't believe in me
Don't believe in me

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Posted: March 05 2009 at 05:26

Keppa4v wrote:

I'm biased Embarrassed

I don't think I listen to anything Norvegian, but all those other countries produced some of my favorites like Mew (Denmark), SIgur Rós and Sólstafir (Iceland) and Opeth and many others (Sweden). Wait, was White Willow from Norway? Ermm

edit: I think strictly speaking Scandinavia only means Sweden, Norway and Denmark as you thought, but at least we in Finland sometimes tend to think of Scandinavia and Nordic Countries as synonyms. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nordic_countries

Oh finland and island is scandinavia. So is greenland tho since thats a danish settlement even tho its in northamerica.

I vote sweden... And its not just cause im swedish. I cant see why anyone would vote anything else unless they're into metal, but we have that here aswell.

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Posted: March 05 2009 at 13:21

First, Iceland and Denmark are not from Scandinavia

. Scandinavia is a peninsula with 3 countries :Norway, Sweden and Finland. Second I'm going with Sweden, one of the piles of prog music. The rest of the countries has good music too, some of them even excelent.

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Posted: March 05 2009 at 14:01

b_olariu wrote:

First, Iceland and Denmark are not from Scandinavia

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scandinavia

Scandinavia is a historical and geographical region in northern Europe that includes the Scandinavian Peninsula. It consists of the kingdoms of Norway, Sweden, and Denmark; some authorities also include Finland and some might even include Iceland.

It's on PA!

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Posted: March 07 2009 at 06:10

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I don't actually like Swedish (prog) metal so much. Many Swedish music (though being great many ways) sounds artificial (especially those neo- post- and math- things.. the popular ones) or boring for me. But there's of course folk-oriented avant-prog etc. My favourites like Änglagård, Myrbein, Pan.Thy.Monium.

And I don't like Norwegian (true) black metal - there's nice avant-garde metal bands, but in the end, they aren't so loveable for me. There's some kind of hype in me, too, but maybe they just aren't pushing the lines enough and not prog enough. Of course Wobbler etc but actually think it's quite similar to black metal :D

Sigur Rós, is it prog? Denmark... Hmm, I like Mew but actually I don't know many bands there :S Recommendations?

Actually I'll go with Finland, though I'm Finnish and I thought I would choose Sweden for the amount of artists. Those avant-prog/folk bands are more like.. tinkering.

There’s much jazz and metal in Finland, and maybe it makes some good, too. But there’s prog bands like Haikara, Höyry-kone (actually beats eg Swedish Myrbein), Pekka Pohjola, Wigwam, Tabula Rasa that I like.

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Posted: March 31 2009 at 15:49

Whereas Norway has an excellent prog/folk/black/etc scene I think Finland can compete sucessfully these days: Moonsorrow and Swallow the Sun alone knocks out most of the competition.

But seriously folks; we´re talking about the country that produced Opeth, PoS. Änglagård, Burst, Memfis, Anekdoten, Bo Hansson, T,G&S, Trettioåriga Kriget, Kebenekaise and about a thousand other great prog/folk/etc bands. If you overturn a fallen tree in a Swedish forest there´s probably a world class prog band hibernating underneath. No contest at all.

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Posted: March 31 2009 at 19:52

Sveden!

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Posted: April 01 2009 at 08:08

sweden for me , i like Opeth too much, also Anekdoten, the Flower Kings, Kaipa, Anglagard .. Pg.Lost .. i love sweden Heart

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Posted: April 19 2009 at 06:12

Sweden has the best prog (Opeth, Meshuggah), but Finland has many good metal bands (Swallow the Sun, Profane Omen, Nightwish, Children of Bodom, Moonsorrow, Callisto). And in Finland metal is just as mainstream as any other genre.

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Posted: May 11 2009 at 07:04

Finland gets my vote, for Alamaailman Vasarat, Amorphis, Circle and Höyry-kone, plus (arguably) some of the best musicians in the demo music scene (see www.scene.org).

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Posted: May 12 2009 at 19:38

Sweden and Norway come close but I've got to say Sweden

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Posted: May 24 2009 at 18:23

The country that produced Soundtrack of Our Lives....

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Posted: May 26 2009 at 10:49

Länge leve Sverige!

well coming from swe and all the vote wasent that hard...

Poll Question: Quick! Best music! (Including prog, of course)
Poll Choice	Votes	Poll Statistics
Norway	9	[10.00%]
Sweden	64	[71.11%]
Denmark	1	[1.11%]
Finland	14	[15.56%]
Iceland	2	[2.22%]
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