Land Of Metal And Heavy: Portland
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Do you know this feeling when you stumble across a random word, and then suddenly that name pops up just about everywhere? That specific term haunting yours truly has long been "Portland, Oregon". It seems to me that every new discovery was founded in Portland, apparently every other album was mastered at Brad Boatright's Audiosiege Studio in Portland, and every single of my favorite bands had, at some point, performed on a stage somewhere in Portland.
In the 1980s, LA was undeniably the world's glam metal capital, alongside with San Francisco Bay Area thrash metal as a counter development. Then we witnessed the death metal boom of the early 90s, with Tampa, Florida as its global hotspot. Not to forget the New York punk and hardcore scene (NYHC), the rise of sludge metal from the swamps of New Orleans during the late 80s, grunge from Seattle gaining mainstream prominence in the early 90s... Apparently, there has always been a tendency in the US towards rapidly developing, locally restricted music scenes, in whose environment a completely new style or genre could develop in order to have a lasting impact on the global musical landscape within a few years. So I just had to find out if my mind was playing tricks on me or if Portland really is the current capital of the US for heavy music and extreme metal - hence this list. Inclusion criteria: (that's why Leviathan is here but Lurker Of Chalice isn't) Only one album (preferably the most recent full-length album) per band. By the way, according to this article, Portland harbors the highest amount of active metal bands per capita in the US. Quite a surprise, isn't it? While we are at it, what's your favorite Portland band?
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| AndyMetalFreak A Nice Guy Contributor Posts: 5301  |
Wow! I didn't realise this many bands originated from this area, and I'm pleasantly surprised to see a few Atmospheric Black Metal bands I'm familiar with here, although I'm only familiar with about 7 bands altogether from this list, my favourite proberbly being Agalloch.
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| Starvynth i c deaf people Staff Posts: 3165  |
Written by AndyMetalFreak on 14.08.2021 at 20:17 Since the primary purpose of this list was to satisfy my personal curiosity, I didn't really expect any comments here. All the nicer to get a feedback after all, thank you! The region had originally caught my interest because of the vivid crust punk scene, but you're absolutely right, the popularity of Agalloch has certainly contributed to the fact that atmo black is still one of the most prevalent styles there.
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| Troy Killjoy perfunctionist Staff Posts: 21306  |
Who doesn't love Portland.
---- "Wise men talk because they have something to say; fools because they have to say something."
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| Bad English Tage Westerlund Posts: 62001  |
Portland Trail Blazers. Cool list whit cool bands, sortha more to my and a lit older person bands, not young peoples
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| Starvynth i c deaf people Staff Posts: 3165 |
Written by Troy Killjoy on 15.08.2021 at 23:39 All the hot girls wear glasses - yeah! Five days later and it's still sticking in my head.
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| RaduP CertifiedHipster Staff Posts: 9027  |
Damn, I miss Agalloch 
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| Troy Killjoy perfunctionist Staff Posts: 21306 |
---- "Wise men talk because they have something to say; fools because they have to say something."
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| Karlabos Posts: 5735  |
Portland is like a city of musicians or something. Not only there's a lot of great metal, I very much often find some good non-metal stuff from there on BC as well.
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