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corcerex
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PostPosted: Mon Feb 04, 2013 12:05 am 
 

I've been searching for a few weeks to find some good thrash, death bands from Africa. And everytime I find one or two, they've really bad reviews here on MA, so I didn't bother checking them out.
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PostPosted: Mon Feb 04, 2013 12:17 am 
 

There are no good bands from Africa. Sorry to have to break it to you.

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ObservationSlave
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PostPosted: Mon Feb 04, 2013 12:20 pm 
 

I like Myrath who are a prog metal band from Tunisia. They have some folky aspects as well.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G8HJ9rmV4z0

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shouvince
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PostPosted: Mon Feb 04, 2013 12:40 pm 
 

John is somewhat right even though he's being sarcastic :) Egypt has some good bands. Check out Scarab (formerly known as Hate Suffocation, yes lame name). I've seen them live a couple of times at various fests.

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inhumanist
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PostPosted: Mon Feb 04, 2013 1:21 pm 
 

viewtopic.php?f=1&t=93474
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PostPosted: Mon Feb 04, 2013 4:23 pm 
 

corcerex wrote:
I've been searching for a few weeks to find some good thrash, death bands from Africa. And everytime I find one or two, they've really bad reviews here on MA, so I didn't bother checking them out.

http://www.metal-archives.com/bands/Wrust/13544
http://www.metal-archives.com/bands/Crackdust/77955
It is not that bleak.
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PostPosted: Mon Feb 04, 2013 11:56 pm 
 

There are 129 bands listed from South Africa alone. I havent heard of very many of them (so I don't know which specific ones to reccomend) but the odds are there is at least one or two of them from down there that are decent, at least.

Due to the police-state mentality and strict Islamic culture, I would think it would be very hard for a metal scene to thrive in the northern and central African countries. But I give definate props to the bands from there who try to persevere in spite of the odds. Haven't really heard of too many bands from there aside from the occasional name-drop.

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corcerex
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PostPosted: Tue Feb 05, 2013 12:32 pm 
 

inhumanist wrote:
http://www.metal-archives.com/board/viewtopic.php?f=1&t=93474

'Absence of Light' is a gay name for a band, honestly. I find it awkward that he rules out bands playing metalcore/deathcore/melodeath, but calls a melodeath band, with an unoriginal name, unique.
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MrMcThrasher II
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PostPosted: Tue Feb 05, 2013 2:28 pm 
 

Madagascar had a thrash scene apparently. The more you know, right?
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PostPosted: Tue Feb 05, 2013 2:33 pm 
 

Ya'll remember that very popular feature done by several magazines on the Botswana metal scene? If not, here's the link:
http://edition.cnn.com/2012/06/29/world ... etal-heads

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Ceald Hraew
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PostPosted: Tue Feb 05, 2013 9:06 pm 
 

Voice of Destruction (South Africa) is OK.

Not thrash nor death, but Namibia’s Arcana XXII is great.

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elf48687789
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PostPosted: Wed Feb 06, 2013 6:30 am 
 

You might like Threatening from Uganda: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qRuBCntvhvA

But you posted in the wrong subforum, try "Recommendation Central".

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Hircine
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PostPosted: Thu Feb 07, 2013 9:17 am 
 

Metal bands, not so much :P

Some people might be interested in this piece of heavy 70s psychedelia from Nigeria though.
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PostPosted: Sun Feb 10, 2013 6:27 am 
 

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Hehe, that was great!

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Ba Zuulizx Karoth
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PostPosted: Thu Feb 14, 2013 7:28 pm 
 

Check out their Black Metal. Wait...

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elf48687789
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PostPosted: Mon Feb 18, 2013 4:30 pm 
 

693 wrote:
Also if you liked that check out zamrock (music style), psychedelic bands from Zambia from the 1970s.

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Subrick
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PostPosted: Mon Feb 18, 2013 6:25 pm 
 

Crow Black Sky. Quite good death/black metal from South Africa.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K4ra40Pvvy0
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VirginSteele_Helstar
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PostPosted: Wed Feb 20, 2013 6:35 am 
 

Agreed about Crow Black Sky. Myrath and Vielikan from Tunisia are both Progressive bands, the latter being more deathly. They are modern sounding but add a bit of oriental touches to their sound.

Balyios, also South African does a folk metal thing but it is more Euro flavored than I would have preferred.

True African folk metal that I have heard is this song, "Tribes Of The Underground" from Uganda's Vale of Amonition;
http://valeofamonition.bandcamp.com/tra ... nderground

South Africa also has a mildly interesting power metal band called Strident;
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lkEJxKVN11I
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truvelocity
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PostPosted: Tue Mar 05, 2013 6:28 am 
 

That Vale of Amonition song rules. Balyios' album was quite magnificent too!

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Bruce500
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PostPosted: Thu Mar 07, 2013 9:00 pm 
 

Crow Black Sky for sure!

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Celtic Frosted Flakes
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PostPosted: Fri Mar 15, 2013 8:24 pm 
 

If south africa counts, i like Seether. But they have a kind of grung-ey sound, not very metal but still heavy.
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PostPosted: Tue Mar 19, 2013 2:34 pm 
 

Celtic Frosted Flakes wrote:
If south africa counts, i like Seether. But they have a kind of grung-ey sound, not very metal but still heavy.

I highly doubt that most people on this forum would consider them to be any form of heavy metal. However, they're the only African band that I can think of (and I'd prefer not to think of them).

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Celtic Frosted Flakes
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PostPosted: Mon Mar 25, 2013 9:36 am 
 

hagagaga wrote:
Celtic Frosted Flakes wrote:
If south africa counts, i like Seether. But they have a kind of grung-ey sound, not very metal but still heavy.

I highly doubt that most people on this forum would consider them to be any form of heavy metal. However, they're the only African band that I can think of (and I'd prefer not to think of them).

I know, but i kind of like them. Can't think of any other african bands.
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PostPosted: Tue Apr 09, 2013 1:19 pm 
 

Celtic Frosted Flakes wrote:
I know, but i kind of like them. Can't think of any other african bands.


Thank God for the Archives then!
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slayerhatesusall
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PostPosted: Wed Apr 10, 2013 12:07 am 
 

The few metal bands I've heard from Africa were quite generic and mediocre, although I've only heard about 5-10.

There is alot of great non metal stuff from africa though, like funk, afrobeat and others.
Here are a few releases I could easily highly recommend:
http://rateyourmusic.com/release/comp/v ... _togo_70s/

http://rateyourmusic.com/release/comp/v ... es_1970_6/

http://rateyourmusic.com/release/album/ ... sive_shit/

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PostPosted: Sun Apr 28, 2013 11:05 am 
 

I recommend Umtakati. Old school death metal with tribal drum patterns.

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PostPosted: Mon Apr 29, 2013 12:19 am 
 

Wildernessking are...Well okay I guess. I'm not sure how I feel about it.

From South Africa.

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Disinterested Handjob
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PostPosted: Thu May 02, 2013 8:24 am 
 

Groinchurn were a fine South African band.
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PostPosted: Sun May 05, 2013 5:34 pm 
 

Throne Below
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