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...
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.
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.