Africa’s heaviest music scene 

Wrust looks sick as fuck

I guess you could call the African scene... Black Metal ?

I believe the Antarctican metal scene is grim and frostbitten. Those penguins can shred.

Those Botswana metalheads go full 19 Goddamn 80s with their leathers. I salute them.

The Kenyan metal scene has: - IN OATH -Last Year's Tragedy -Lust of A Dying Breed -Absence of Light -Mortal Soul.

I would like to hear some African Paganism or Voodoo influenced Black Metal with all the rhythmic drumming and chanting of traditional African culture.

Metal is one of the most inclusive scenes I've ever been a part of that's what always gets me people think that heavy metal fans are hyper aggressive maniacs that are bad people when they're really some of the most cool laid-back accepting people you'll ever meet

Through the Metal we unite and prevail.

THIS IS RAAADDD AND I'M GONNA GO CHECK IT OUT RIGHT NOW!!!

I'm extremely glad that Southern Africa is getting recognition, but Botswana isin't the only country that has great metal acts. Check out Megolodon, Wildernessking, A Price On The Kings Head, Fuera, etc. there are so many bands in Africa doing metal proud.

Kenya also has a metal scene

METAL IS UNIVERSAL and will NEVER DIE!!!

Seriously though, I'm still waiting for E.T. H.M. (Extra-Terrestrial Heavy-Metal)

Here in South Africa we have a MASSIVE metal scene. A lot heavier and we have a bigger variety of music. Try bands like Vulvodynia (Slam Metal), Imperial Destruction (Death Metal) and Strident (Power Metal). We have a lot more but those are my Favorite.

Now you really touched a subject that's been bothering me for a year: African Metal Scene. I've musically travelled to the Far East, East Europe, Middle-East, South Europe, South America, North America, Central America, Oceania and, of course, Central and North Europe. But besides Egypt, Africa seems completely forgotten by us. And most don't seem to care. It really bothers me that Metal has become such an "European" genre. We have straight blond hairs spinning all around on live performances and little to no women or black guys in bands. C'mon, FOLKS!!! It's the 21st century! Wake up! I don't want Viking stuff only! And talking about Satan doesn't bother society. We've got to support the underground metal scenes all around the world, from every kind of band. I was listening to Darkestrah the other day. It's an awesome Black Metal band from Kyrgistan. There's also Folkheim, from Chile, and many others. And when I say that, I don't mean women, black guys, asians, arabians etc. should have special treatment; I'm saying they have no treatment or whatsoever. Drop your viking screams a little and go listen to Ch'Aska's Inca language. And favorite foreign band? Vader, from Poland. But it's European, so no news. Outside Europe and the USA? I'd say it's Krisiun.

african metal head here

I just curious can we trade our rappers in the U. S. For this metalheads in Africa.

yay a couple new bands!

I just want some Sub-Saharan folk metal.

I love how different cultures' use of their own traditional instruments in metal has created such a broad range of music under the umbrella of "folk metal". I'd love to see a video on that, like the differences and similarities ranging from Eluveitie to Tenggar Cavalry to Chthonic to Al-Andalus. For the record, my favourite of these is probably Chthonic, ironically I think I love their unplugged acoustic stuff even more.

but those guys are called chthonic right? is the O just a spelling error or am I missing something? btw they are awsome, if you can see them live, do so

my god, i think i found the holy trinity of rock band names we have "overthrust" in africa, and "anal destruction" in sweden. then to top it all off, we have "blood farts" (also sweden). i have found my gods!!!! :P

Man I love metal

Wrust are one of my favourite metal bands from Africa at the minute.

Fave metal band? Gojira, from France.

We have a whole bunch of metal bands in South Africa

When I found Sepultura in high school it blew my mind. Such an amazing metal band from a country without metal roots....bloody roots. This was when Max was still in Sepultura.

Dude Vulvodynia doesn't get any love?

Scarab: Death Metal from Egypt! I knew it existed before you made teh video. HAH! Now I can cross that one from my bucket list.

My favorite African band is Crow Black Sky. I started listening to them when they dropped their first album and I've loved them ever since.

Very nice episode, thanks for mentioning our documentary! Keep up the good work!

Surprised Zambia isn't highlighted on the map. From an outsider's perspective the Zamrock scene from the early 70s is probably the single most prominent example of hard rock/heavy metal in African music.

I started to listen to Dir End Grey, I don't know or understand Japanese but it opened my mind and made me realize how great the worl of metal is.

check out Tengger Cavalry! really cool Mongolian folk metal band with traditional instruments and throat singing!

Thank you for the list of bands I need to listen to now! Love this channel

I've never watched any of your video's before. Looking at all of the posters on the wall in the background made me so happy.

2:29 butteeeeeeeeeeeer butteeeeeeeeeeeer 😂😂

some of the best metal can be found in the most unlikeliest places on earth!!

Anyone know any Basque metal bands? I'm trying to learn the language via immersion and can't find any good ones on youtube.

Thanks dude. I found your channel yesterday and digging every video. I like you music genre videos, thanks for the info, I like finding new types of music. You did mention Anthony, I watch his video too, but I don't think he previews any sounds or songs in his reviews.

I recently found that the Czech Republic has the fucking most hilariously awesome bands. Stuff like !T.O.O.H.! the progressive grindcore/death metal band and Forgotten Silence, Duobetic Homunkulus, that features a guitarist from !T.O.O.H.! and Parasophisma, that has an album titled: A Variable Invariability Varied in Dependency on Variations Caused by the Invariability of Invariability Remains the Same When All the Variations of Fractals of Delight Have Been Done

The best metal band is Alestorm, and they make Scottish pirate metal that involves time travel.

Fantastic video!... I normally can't stomach narrators on some of these types of videos (so cringey) but you're a natural at this. Definitely subscribing!

Subbed and you are awesome! Keep the vibe jumped and the volume cranked!

Looking for Wrust I founded "Conchita Wurst", a beardy girl singing pop. I regret everything.

Vulvodynia yo, South African slam metal. really heavy stuff.

Hey , what is the name of the song played at the end ?

Septicflesh. For the longest time, I was never a fan of Death Metal. Then in 2014, I discovered Titan, and things finally clicked.

Canada is more metal than the US? What the actual fuck?!!

and this is why robb flynn's rant against phil anselmo was so damn awesome

What is that song called at 3:52? Is it still by Chthotic?

Where did you buy that tshirt?

*At the end of video host says Metal is a way to relate us all, at the beginning of the video the song "HATE 'EM ALL" is played by the African band, yeah!, seems legit*

That Skinflint guy is ruining the finish on his guitar with those spikes :D

That Wagakki shoutout though! Most of what I've seen of them (including the one you showed) are Vocaloid covers but their sound is so fucking rad (IIRC, the cover included was Senbonzakura. My favourite from them is Tengaku) I went through a huge doujin metal/j-metal phase from 2 years ago to like. still lowkey ongoing today. My favourite is the metalcore circle Draw the Emotional (whose leader is now producing for Babymetal BTW), but there's a good selection of decent material in the Touhou scene (I hardly even ever played Touhou but the music is so good), from Demetori to Foreground Eclipse to Undead Corporation (who are now signed and doing original stuff, which is fantastic.)

Can somebody please tell where I can get that Quintessental shirt.

Japanese metal (which includes so much more than just Babymetal) has always been so interesting to me that I made two PowerPoints on the metal scene in Japan for my Japanese class. one being about the history/sound and the other being about visual kei which is their take on the visuals of glam but taken to an obscene extreme

Wrust not on Spotify :( I've been buying music outright for a long time, but I've given in to that beast. Now that it is my standard player I miss out on this kind of stuff.

Im a Sri Lankan living in Australia really who is a big fan of Skinflint from botswana ! The power of good music knows no geographical boundaries

Absolutely loved this video. Keep this stuff coming!

Canada really surprised me with how many damn good bands come from there, like I have no trouble believing Canada is more "metal" than the US. As for foreign bands, one of my go-to recommendations is Aspid, a technical thrash band from Russia.

This is my favorite video on this channel so far!! Thank you so much for exposing me to new international metal!! My favorite? ARKONA :) Russian Pagan Folk Metal (I think)

Boris is my personal favorite. They really opened my eyes to music and especially since you were talking about metal in Asia briefly, I was kinda surprised you didn't bring them up.

Hey! Thanks for the cool vid while drinking some good beer and surfing metal related videos. :) Fun stuff!

Dude the fuck.... South Africa in particular has some heavy ass bands.... check out Facing the Gallows... or The Messiah Complex. Chromium isn't as heavy but is pretty dope :)

Under 301 club! HAHAHAHAHAhahahaa....haha.....what am I doing?

As a black dude, I've always been welcomed in metal gigs... sometimes dudes were kinda surprise ( but I thinks it's not a color issue, just because I don't fit the metal dress code)...I listen to rap, french music, congolese music, Haitian music but rock is my real love !

love your work man keep it up.

most universal open minded music ever!!!

Hail the forthcoming Metalocalypse! Metal domination worldwide! Haha

does anyone knows the name of that songs that wagakki perform?

Great shirt bro...where can i get one?

Theres a band from south africa called Vulvodynia....theyre really heavy deathcore!

...Is that Wagakki song Senbonzakura?

I love seeing this kind of thing, the boundaries that it breaks down, and the fact that pretty much no matter where you go as a metal fan you'll probably run into someone wearing a maiden shirt and have that instant connection (I've run into Sherpa people high in the Himalaya that commented on some of the metal shirts that i was wearing trekking, and they were fans!) Awesome!

Cool insert guys. Our band Terminatryx has been doing our brand of Industrial flavoured female-fronted Metal for 14 years here in South Africa. Quite a wide range of Metal bands here and we were recently filmed by Sam Dunn and Banger films for a chapter on South African Metal!

Too much fuckin metal on this channel man

This dry sense of humour is making me....Firsty

It’s 2023 and I saw Skinflint play a show in Michigan.

3:51 They are covering a vocaloid song senbonzakura, the rift they are playing is directly lifted from the song. For a while it was a very popular thing to cover it. Similar to how popular bad apple got.

Just listened to some wrust after this video they are awesome as f...!

Interesting that there was no mention of Death Metal Angola here. Definitely worth a look. Anyway, with respect to metal from odd places, Gyibaaw and Serigala Jahanam are pretty interesting for entirely different reasons. Also: Russian slam death. Always a fun option.

Chthonic is absolutely amazing! Their sound is so unique! I would highly recommend them :)

I think that my favourite band from a country other than my own is Eluveitie, which did prompt me to learn more about the Celts, particularly their history on continental Europe. Of the bands you spoke of in this video, Skinflint is my favoured one by far, whom I had heard of before this. I'm going to have to check out Wrust as well though.

all this metal makes me want to listen to some. any good bands?

metal > other genres

I'm watching this a week later, where is the new vid?

Oh, man I'm gonna definitely check Wrust out! I love many metal bands that come from various different countries. For example, I love Hunter (polish heavy/thrash metal band) and Eths (French heavy metal band) (:

Favorite band from a foreign country? Easily Iron Maiden, hailing from Britain, I being American.

Check out Flesh Juicer from Taiwan. They're brutal!

This is totally awesome, and I will have to check it out. My 2 favorite non-American metal bands from countries one doesn't immediately think of when thinking of metal are Kekal, originally from Malaysia, and Onmyo-za, from Japan. Kekal is less metal these days, and more an amalgamation of styles, but they started as black metal, and morphed into an extreme Avant-garde sort of sound. Onmyo-za is a fantastic band that often gets lumped in with the Visual Kei movement, because of their aesthetic and dress, styled after the Japanese Heian period, but it factors into their lyrics and overall theme as well. Absolutely fantastic band that everyone even remotely into classic and power metal should check out.

im loving these metal episodes!

The real black metal

Nice to see black guys that aren't hip hop.

The Metal scene in South Africa is finally starting to grow. I'm looking forward to all the festivals, shows and gigs I'll be playing in ;)

Amazing! I live in South Africa and watched Wrust so often growing up alongside bands such as Architecture of Aggression. Please do a this exists on South African doom! Ruff Majick, Mad God, Corax, Goat Throne, STRAGE. So many great African metal bands!

talk about black metal

Black metal is real afro music cause is Black.

What Wagakki band song is that?

Good upload!