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thenkar Link ParentThere is actually a decent small scene coming from all across the Americas. Blackbraid is the most "palatable", I'd say, and definitely my first pick when it comes to showing people, but there are...There is actually a decent small scene coming from all across the Americas. Blackbraid is the most "palatable", I'd say, and definitely my first pick when it comes to showing people, but there are others, like Ifernach, Pan-Amerikan Native Front or Nechochwen.
However, as it's black metal, it's always filigraned by the eternal question of "is it sketch?", and the answer is sometimes yes, even in this case. If you're looking for squeaky clean riffs, being from a native band doesn't actually tell much of anything in that regard.
I think that how native politics are at play in extreme metal could deserve its own separate discussion (and might also be a tad too niche), but I don't want to hijack too much either, so I'll leave it at that.
That Yugoslavia was behind the iron curtain. Since I come from North America, European history is generally lacking among my peers, even highly educated ones.
If you think about it, it would make perfect sense, communist country in eastern europe post-WWII and all. It was even how it went for a while, until the Tito-Stalin split around 1948. This led to a country that was a lot more open towards the west, and sought to be independent of either the US, Soviet or China's oppressive influences.
It turns out they also made really good music while doing it, and that's how I fell into the rabbit hole. They had very good rock (Bijelo Dugme), punk/post-punk/new wave (Paraf), and electronic scenes (Bastion]), among everything else. Plus some of my favourite Eurovision entries ever, mostly in the form of Tajči's Hajde da ludujemo in 1990, right before the whole thing collapsed.