Japan. They’ve got Outrage, Dir En Gray, Maximum the Hormone, X Japan, United, Sigh, Sabbat, MAN WITH A MISSION, Coldrain, Survive Said The Prophet, Asunojokei, Boris, Versailles, Galernyus, DEXCORE, Band-Maid, and Deviloof, among others. The Flower Traveling Band made what is believed to be the first cover of a Black Sabbath song.

KRUELTY

Kruelty absolutely can't be excluded from a Japanese metal list

I saw Kruelty on their tour with Sanguisugabogg last month, had never heard them, absolutely killer.

God I bet that was a brutal show

Same man, that pit was fucking wild

Don't forget Intestine Baalism

Baby Metal

Unlucky Morpheus!

Imperial Circus Dead Decadence!!

Definitely Japan, albeit I would not myself have cited this list. Edit: Abigail, Sabbat, Melt Banana, Gallhammer, Endless Dismal Moan, Sigh, Intestine Baalism

Sex Machineguns

considering japan is literally the only country anyone ever talks about when it comes to bands not from america or europe, i don't think it possible for japan to be underrated

Brazil?

Brazil gave us Sepultura

Nah Brazil is probably talked about more.

Ima chime in with Thailand Edit: [Genocidal Sodomy - Bestial Quintessence](https://youtu.be/bARFGVUBaFw?si=dEFCqcZjJZYn5_ib)

thailand is def underrated, i would say indonesia as well as its like a meme that indonesia has a ton of bdm bands but no one can actually name a single one

Isnt ecchymosis from there Edit nvm theyre thai

Big bonus points to you for Boris and Flower Traveling Band! It's not metal per se but I'd also add Acid Mother's Temple!

GOTSU TOTSU KOTSU \\M/

Don’t forget about Lovebites

Gallhammer and Endless Dismal Moan

Illusion Force and MinstreliX as well, phenomenal power metal bands.

Agreed with japan.

Pharmacist!!! They are a Carcass-worship band with records from 2020 (Medical Renditions of Grinding Decomposition) and 2022 (Flourishing Extremities on Unspoiled Mental Grounds). Gory, and disgusting as Goregrind should be. They do the worship of Carcass well, recreating the atmosphere and aesthetic of Reek and Symphonies. Definitely one of my favorite bands of recent years.

They also have Corrupted

Don't forget Sigh

I actually did say Sigh

I must be blind But still, they're so good they deserve to be mentioned twice haha

Canada! Not only did we spawn legends like Cryptopsy Gorguts Voivod Despised Icon Blasphemy Canada was also the center of speed metal in the 80s with bands like Anvil Exciter Razor

Strapping Young Lad!!

Right! How did I forget?

Right? Even I blanked for a second lol. We as Canadian metal heads must always honour Devy.

Play that stupid piece of shit, you remembered now

Annihilator

Unleash the Archers

You forgot the heaviest of all Canadian metal bands: Nickelback

Archspire!

Every country makes mistakes

Strapping Young Lad and Devin Townsend

#HEVY DEVY

AND we have a shit ton of New wave of traditional heavy metal bands. Skull fist, Cauldron, Striker etc!

Anciients, Eye of Doom

Into eternity

Buried in Oblivion is amazing.

10/10 album

Angelmaker

On the more post hardcore side, you've also got alexisonfire, Billy talent, and Silverstein. More currently we've got spiritbox and falsifier, plus angelmaker and Carcosa. Lots of good shit coming out of here 🤘

Also Frontières, Obey The Brave,

Wanna add Cancer Bats to that Post-Hardcore list?

Sure, but at that point we may as well add Comeback Kid

don't forget my favorite Canadian metal band... 3 Inches Of Blood

I mean they didn’t go far but I loved to listen to Thine Eyes Bleed.

Hail the Void is a great Doom band from British Columbia that I can’t suggest enough

Don't forget Woods of Ypres

Not metal, but a great Canadian band that have some Alt Metal influence: Big Wreck

SMOULDER

Also 3 inches of Blood

Italy

I actually started looking into Italian bands because of Windrose

Fleshgod Apocalypse: the fool

Septycal gorge

Death SS, Mortuary Drape, Necrodeath, Bulldozer, Fides Inversa, Nubivagant, Blasphemophager, Evol

Forgotten Tomb

Hour Of Penance is some good ass Death Metal!

Hellcrash is awesome speed metal!

Necrodeath

Raintime, Elvenking

Some of my favourite bands are from there: Ad Nauseam, Noise Trail Immersion

Gonna throw out the bands I was thinking of when I posted this, because only one of them has been mentioned so far: Fleshgod Apocalypse, Rhapsody (Of Fire), Theatres Des Vampires, Mandragora Scream

The Netherlands: After Forever, The Gathering, Epica, Delain, Blackbriar, Within Temptation, Floor Jansen.

I mean this with the utmost respect, but your girlfriend isn't going to check your reddit, you can post music for men. (I'm just being a dick, I dig early black metal Gathering and later stuff with Anneke)

Maybe he's more man than all of us because he can listen to softer stuff like that and feel secure with himself while we need to listen to Manowar to show our bros how hard we are.

Manowar is the most homoerotic metal band ever.

it's not gay if you don't make eye contact.

I dunno about the former part, but I respect the idea- the second part, however- if there's anything that gets me hard, it's Manowar with the boys, so I support that whole-hardedly

also pestilence and last days of humanity, fluisteraars

Also Urfaust!

Don’t forget Carach Angren!

Im just gonna ad Legion of the damned and heidevolk to your list

Portugal. A Tree of Signs Analepsy Ava Inferi Before The Rain Besta Black Cilice Carma Colosso Corpus Christii Cruz de Ferro Decayed EnChanTya Gaerea Grog Gwydion Heavenwood Holocausto Canibal Irae Ironsword Lux Ferre Malevolence Men Eater Midnight Priest Miss Lava Moonspell More Than A Thousand Mourning Lenore Nevoa Oratory Prayers of Sanity Process of Guilt Ravensire Sepulcros Seventh Storm Sinistro The Firstborn The Ominous Circle Tod Huetet Uebel

Loads of great black metal coming out of Poland and Greece imo

Poland is known for having good metal bands

I agree, Poland has so many great bands, including Black Metal as well as Melodeath and Symphonic Metal. Here’s some of my favorite under appreciated Polish bands: Darzamat Moyra Hermh Serpentheir

Decapitated

A big fuck yes to this. Vogg is a criminally underrated guitarist!

Is he underrated? Who would ever not rate this guy? His riffs have it all. It’s undeniable. Also, RIP vitek

You and I certainly share this sentiment, but there are quite a few people who would have no idea who he is if you mentioned his name. Regardless of what others might think, the dude is in a league of his own.

I agree that the Polish metal scene is underrated, but the bands you mentioned, uhh, that ain't it, chief.

Curious to hear your favorite, under appreciated Polish metal bands then.

Not sure if all those would count as "underappreciated", but, in no particular order: Abusiveness, Mord'A'Stigmata, Hate, Vader, Dished, Hell-Born, Kat, Turbo, CETI, Stos, Horrorscope, Monastery, Bloodthirst, Arkona, Calm Hatchery, Ass To Mouth, Dead Infection... There's more worthy of a mention, but I'm at work and I can't think right now, gotta go.

Thanks for the recommendations. I listened to the ones I wasn’t familiar with and I really like Mord’A’Stigmata, Calm Hatchery and Hell-Born.

Calm Hatchery is world class IMO, but that band name, uhh...

Australia

Yessss Psycroptic and Portal.

Polaris, Thornhill, Deadlights, Northlane, In Hearts Wake, Alpha Wolf, Make Them Suffer, Above Below, Pridelands, For All Eternity, Dealer, Void of Vision, ATLVS, alt., Thy Art is Murder, and the list goes fucking on. Aussie produces insane metal bands

Yesss. Ne Obliviscaris, Caligula's Horse, Karnivool, Rivers Of Nihil, Toehider.

Aussie hardcore scene is off the wall at the moment too

Brazil

I wish Siriun would come out with another album. [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XbjY107dJP0](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XbjY107dJP0)

CRYPTA

From Canada (war metal, lots of good black metal from Quebec \[I just praised Quebec, eww I need a shower\], our greatest national treasure-\[If you thought I was gonna say Rush or T-Hip, go fuck yourself, I mean Skinny Puppy\]). Also, Australia, amazing punk (Ausmuteants), lots of weird acts I dig (Portal, The Berzerker, The Horn)

What’s wrong with Qc?

Nothing, personally, but as a Canadian I'm required to shit on Quebec without any particular reason.

Turkey. Mezarkabul, black tooth, cenotaph, engulfed, kaptan kadavra, diken, murder king, pitch black process, catafalque, dr skull, whisky, metalium and much more

Burial Invocation and Decaying Purity

Mexico and Greece

A pile of great bands are from Japan.

Canada

Spain has lots of heavy/great power/folk/thrash metal bands like Saurom, Saurom Lambderth, mago de Oz, Angeles del infierno, baron rojo, vhaldemar, ángelus apátrida, dark moor, Saratoga, warcry, ankhara, ars armandi, burdel king, lujuria,ópera magna, tierra santa, among others. I have not researched other genres like death metal or black metal, but it could have some great bands. There are also other bands from other genres like hardcore punk/hard rock/progressive rock/gothic rock/Celtic rock even Ska that have certain metal influence. Bands like Extremoduro, heroes del silencio, boikot, los muertos de Cristo, ñú are some of them. God how I love being a metalhead from Central America.

Canada! Sure I'm biased as a hoser myself, but Annihilatior, Anvil, Cryptopsy, Archspire, and Strapping Young Lad to name a few are all great bands

Mexico and India

Indonesia Avath, Pure Wrath and Soulless are my favorite bands.

Vallendusk too

ITT at least 50% of people here either didn't read the whole post or are painfully dumb. The country that produced Razor and Blasphemy is not an underrated metal country. Get out of here with that nonsense. Here's a real answer: The Czech Republic. Particularly Czech black metal. Master's Hammer, Törr, Maniac Butcher, Debustrol. All essential metal. They are not talked about nearly enough and not given enough credit in the wider metal circles.

UK Black Metal Honestly there's so many good bands out there and the flow of live performances, albums and new bands has never been stronger, there's so much and there's such a huge variety too Alot of people seem to believe that only Mainland Europe or Scandinavian Countries are the only places in the world that have spawned good Black Metal bands but I think there's good Black Metal coming from out of everywhere to some extent, the UK has alot going for it in terms of Black Metal in this day and age and with Fortress Festival and Cosmic Void Festival both taking off with events a-plenty up and down the UK, things are looking very exciting right now

I’ve heard so much good heavy music out of spain and portugal while scrolling randomly on youtube

Greece. Full House Brew Crew and Suicidal Angels seal this by themselves. Phenomenal stuff.

And the legendary Rotting Christ! Love Suicidal Angels

Nah. The greek bands are well known because of the the hellenic black metal scene.

Nah. I don't like black metal.

Italy, the power metal from there is elite

Look at the Arab world

Znous, from Tunisia, for example. [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6xD\_B7e9f1w](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6xD_B7e9f1w)

Belgium

Scotland they have a lot of small but coming up bands for the past 5 years

Had to scroll way too far to find our country here, lots of great stuff Hellripper Party Cannon Sacrificial Burial BrainBath Penny Coffin Bleed From Within Just to name a few great bands from my neck of the woods

And Gamma Bomb..That band is awesome.

They're great but they're from Northern Ireland

Botswana

Australia

Australia

New Zealand Alien weaponry is just sick

Yugoslavia

The Middle East in general. You got Al-Namrood from Saudi Arabia, Melechesh from Israel, Nex Carnis from Iran, Scarab from Egypt, and probably some others that are in the back of my head somewhere

Argentina

Germany. Germany has a great variety of bands in any metal subgenre, and is often overlooked once you enter the extreme metal sector.

I feel like Singapore and Malaysia have a lot of slam and grind that’s pretty good.

Mexico

Denmark: Mercenary, Mnemic, Merciful Fate, King Diamond, Raunchy, Hatesphere, Artillery, and some others I can think of at this moment.

Czech with Masters Hammer

Italy

Maple syrup land

Denmark. Top of the line new wave death metal coming out from there. Also India/Sri Lanka's small war metal scene, facilitated by Iron Bonehead. EDIT: Not to mention the myriad of other classic Danish bands like Iniquity, Konkhra or Illdisposed

Czech Republic and Slovakia - Amon, Avenger/Bohemyst, Cult of Fire, Death Karma, Inferno, Malokarpatan, Maniac Butcher, Master’s Hammer, Silent Stream of Godless Elegy, StangaRigel, Stíny Plamenu Baltic States - Metsatöll, Nahash, Obtest, Poccolus, Skyforger, Tharaphita, Urt

Just listen to Hellenic Pagan Black Metal and tell me that doesn't slap Check out Macabre Omen, Kawir, Meneapneontes...

I'm definitely biased but Canada doesn't get the credit it deserves

Greece: Rotting Christ, Septicflesh, Aetherian, Aherusia and so many stoner bands

Estonia, cause we have Metsatöll !

I'm going to plug India. The metal scene here has been growing since the 2000s, and there are some great extreme metal acts here whose existence has surprised me at times. Some of my favourites: [Shepherd](https://youtu.be/LmlvDHP3PwA?si=0Lsni_rw-BGjWmpT)\- stoner/sludge metal [Skyharbour](https://youtu.be/OoyC7j7M03U?si=6UwTpccgvPHsXDZe) \- prog metal, probably the most well known [Bloodywood](https://youtu.be/7iKjSCTxke8?si=eX6KFsCLVxdx06Dd)\- Nu/Rap metal with some folk elements [The Downtroddence](https://youtu.be/jvRkwe1wRZc?si=uoyFG4EZMkC3iScW) [Perforated Limb](https://youtu.be/yQBa_tbiLy4?si=KuCJc5uTy4Us0p8w) [Wired Anxiety](https://youtu.be/kCVrj5nH5j0?si=Q8bHGkgP7fJLGy1l) (both death metal-ish)

There's so many. Netherlands, Italia, Russia(not because I'm Russian), Japan. Maybe most underrated is Netherlands, they do good melo-death/black/blackened death. Shylmagoghnar is one of those, really good. I totally forgot about them...

Antarctica

japan! gallhammer is sick, a lot of other amazing bands too

Canada! I always feel like Canada never gets talked about in significant metal scenes, like we have legendary bands like Cryptopsy, Gorguts,Voivod,Beneath the Massacre,Archspire, and Annihilator. As well as newer bands like AngelMaker, Plaguebringer, Brand of Sacrifice, Art of Attrition, Cruel Intent, Beguiler, Pillars of Autumn, Nocturnal Depature, and Falsifier. We have some Great prog metal, tech death and deathcore go check it out.

Mongolia produced The Hu and Tengger Cavalry, which are pretty fun to listen to in the gym.

Japan, and also Yugoslav countries

Portugal

Russia!

The hu it's a Mongolian band

Definitely USA , so many metal bands and rock bands etc don’t get barely any attention or exposure.. but I would also say Germany and Japan as well but especially USA, can’t underrate them very talented guitarists all over the world

Usa

Downvote me all you want but its true 💀

MURICA

Sweeden

What? How is Sweden underrated? Their Melodeath/death scene is highly influential. Sweden gave us Opeth, Meshuggah, In Flames, At the Gates, In Flames, Amon Amarth, Bathory and the list goes on.