Got a strange map? Let me know at We intuitively associate blue with cold and red with hot – see the faucets in hotel bathrooms – but ironically, this is contradicted by the so-called blackbody theory in physics, where blue occurs at higher temperatures, and red at lower ones. Broussard, David Koch, and Eric Boros for sending that in. If you are disoriented by the multitude of genres that are assembled under the general heading ‘metal’, check out the Map of Metal (see screenshot below). Many thanks to Tino Frey for sending in a link to this map, found here on a blog named Copyranter. Maybe there is still hope for world peace – via the multicultural medium of heavy metal… What about the 140 metal bands of Bolivia? Iran’s 42 listed metal bands include such fantastically named bands as 1,000 Funerals, Beaten Victoriouses ( sic), Tenebrous Shadow, and Zakhm. Even hyper-strict Saudi Arabia has 12 entries in the Encyclopaedia Metallum. Qatar: Asgard Legionnaires Īnd then there are the countries where you wouldn’t expect a flourishing metal scene, but that nevertheless have one.Birma/Myanmar: Nightmare, and The Book of Death.Other lands were metal is extremely marginal – yet present – include: Namibia: Arcana XXII, and SubMission.
#XXII DEATH METAL FONT ARCHIVE#
The data for this map is taken from the extensive Encyclopaedia Metallum, an online archive of metal music that lists bands per country, and provides some background by listing their subgenre (Progressive Death Metal, Symphonic Gothic Metal, Groove Metal, etc).Įven if you barely know your Def Leppard from your Deep Purple, you won’t be surprised by the obvious point of this map: Scandinavia is the world capital of heavy metal music. It codes the result on a colour temperature scale, with blue indicating low occurrence, and red high occurrence. This map reflects the number of heavy metal bands per 100,000 inhabitants for each country in the world.
The map shown here is less editorial, but the information it presents is equally stark. But both communicate a sentiment rather than merely solid data.
Jesusland is based on electoral data, the Simplified Map on a more subjective idea of wealth distribution. Two examples treated earlier on this blog spring to mind – also because they’re quite funny: the Jesusland map ( #3), and the New Simplified Map of London ( #199). Others capture our attention because they are so starkly simple.Ĭartography has the curious capacity to bypass a map-reader’s critical function when conveying information, and never more so than when a map is plain and simple. Some maps are beautiful because of their rich complexity.