I honestly don't know why Denmark, being surrounded by countries with a high number of bands playing great Metal, is such in a poor status in what new bands with strong presence are concerned.
You get the picture if I tell you that the most popular Danish Metal acts are still King Diamond in his solo efforts and with his band Mercyful Fate, both with more than 25 years of career. And Mercyful Fate's last album release was more than 10 years ago.
So, even though I don't like it much, the first video of a chronicle about Danish Metal has to be of King Diamond.
Don't get me wrong. If Denmark was in other part of the world (heck, even in other part of Europe), I would probably think they had a pretty decent Metal scene. But they are in the core of the golden area of Metal innovation in Europe, so decent is far less than I was expecting.
Nevertheless, you have a good Gothic Doom band like Saturnus.
Or Mercenary, a band that started in the Trash/Death genre, but has evolved to a more Gothenburg/Heavy style.
And finally a band that started very promising, with a tremendous first full length, but that in later releases never really managed to fulfil completely their early promises. It's the Power Metal band Iron Fire.
I don't know if you forgot the band, chose not to put it here or simply didn't like it, but there is a good Danish band called "Wuthering Heights".
ReplyDeleteJust a tip.
Hi Ericotzin,
ReplyDeleteThanks for your comment.
Fortunately there are enough good Metal bands to be just impossible to place them all here, and these posts obviously reflect my personal choice.
But it's great that people come here and question my choices, mention other bands that they think should be here, etc.
To be honest, when searching to do this chronicle, I heard just one song of Wuthering Heights and didn't like it much. After reading your comment I went to YouTube and dug a bit deeper, and it's in fact a great band that deserved at least a mention in the post about Denmark.
Thanks again, and keep them comming. Love to hear from people that love Metal music like I do.
Cheers!