Catalog Map
Every band in HeavyMusicGuide is represented by one carefully picked track — a curated taster menu of heavy music. Here is the breadth of that collection.
World map
Circle size reflects the number of bands curated from each country. Hover for name and count; click to filter the catalog.
Not plotted on map: Armenia (1), Georgia (1), Isle of Man (1), Kyrgyzstan (1), Saudi Arabia (1), Togo (1).
Countries
Bands by country of origin. Click any flag to filter the catalog.
USA
175
Norway
95
Sweden
79
Germany
68
England
59
Finland
49
Italy
32
France
22
Canada
18
International
17
Denmark
16
Australia
15
Netherlands
14
Greece
13
Poland
12
Switzerland
11
Spain
10
Belgium
8
Scotland
8
Austria
7
Russia
7
Brazil
4
Iceland
4
India
4
Ireland
4
Japan
3
Portugal
3
Chile
2
Hungary
2
Romania
2
Slovenia
2
South Africa
2
Ukraine
2
Armenia
1
Belarus
1
Czechia
1
Faroe Islands
1
Finland
1
Georgia
1
Isle of Man
1
Israel
1
Kyrgyzstan
1
Lithuania
1
Mexico
1
New Zealand
1
Saudi Arabia
1
Siberia
1
Slovakia
1
Togo
1
Tunisia
1
Unknown
1
Wales
1
Across the decades
Distribution by release decade — from 1970 to 2026. Click a decade to filter. (Bar length uses a square-root scale so smaller decades remain visible alongside the dominant modern era.)
Most common tags
Tag frequency across all bands — size reflects count. Click any tag to browse.
Showing top 60 of 118 tags. Tags are more granular than genres — "norwegian black metal" vs "Black Metal" category.
Browse by genre on the Metal Genres page. Or dive into the full catalog.
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