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After all that research into world metal yesterday I had to go back to check out a few bands in particular. Most of what I found falls into one of the extreme metal categories -- such as death metal or black metal -- and because bands all over the world hope to become world-famous, they usually want to write songs in English (the language of rock and roll, and especially metal). But strangely enough, a death metal band that sings in English sounds pretty much the same regardless if they come from Eastern Europe, South America, or Singapore. Even if they don't sing in English, who's to know? It's death metal. You can't possibly understand them anyway.

So when all is said and done, just because I tracked down doznes of obscure groups in obscure corners of the globe yesterday doesn't mean I'm interested in owning all of that stuff. Frankly, I like music that's different, and I'm not a huge fan of standard death or black metal. It wold be pretty cool to own a metal cd from Central Africa, for example, but if it were just standard death metal then I probably wouldn't bother, because I wouldn't listen to it.

( More info on the few of the bands that I decided to check into further )

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( Today's Song: The Sun by Tang Dynasty )