in the musical world. Seether may be one of the few South African bands of note, but SA's metal scene just isn't as international or as deep as many other countries', so of course it isn't going to be as prominent here.

that description. That said - I'd always love to see more bands from less represented countries make it onto Metal Storm, and I try to expand my own tastes when I can, but I wouldn't say that the United States is underrepresented

the limited time and energy that we are able to spend on maintaining the database, we have to prioritize stuff that we know is going to interest either us or a significant number of users. Seether and Staind don't really fit

is not really a great need to include them. Staind, for its part, languished in the suggestions page for ages before we finally decided to just blacklist them. There was very little community interest in adding them, and given

We do make exceptions, of course, and not every band on the website is metal. But, frankly, nobody on staff, as far as I am aware, is particularly interested in either band - they have no special relevance to metal and there

The primary reason is that we don't consider Staind or Seether metal bands. Perhaps there's a case to be made - I can't say I'm familiar enough with either band to make a definitive judgment. But they are not known as such.

The world has different tastes and perspectives apart from Europe. Why should it be a problem here?