Countries With the Best Bands

US invented rock, but British bands improved it and brought to another level. Moreover they’re responsible for developing and popularising metal and progressive rock ( two of the greatest rock genres both lyrically and musically). That’s enough said I think.
USA has produced historically superb bands as have many other countries but the answer to this question is always pretty obviously the UK from the sixties onwards. What distinguishes British bands since then is their continual barrier-breaking creativity in all genres. I'm not including soul, r&b, hiphop as the USA clearly leads in this. I'm Italian so no bias really. Just we love melody and if you strip away all the heaviness from a track (not that you would) what is at the center is many times the most beautiful melodies. They have the secret ingredient of sweet and sour together since Beatle days.
this country has given great bands for rock and roll/classic rock: The Beatles, The Rolling Stones, The Who, The Animals, The Kinks; for hard rock/heavy metal: Led Zeppelin, Deep Purple, Nazareth, Motorhead, Iron Maiden, Queen, Cream, UFO; for punk: The Clash, Sex Pistols, The Adicts, Generation X; for alternative rock: Radiohead, Oasis, Blur, Muse, Bush; for thrash metal: Seventh Angel, Evile; for prog rock/metal: Pink Floyd, Iron Maiden, King Crimson, Yes, Jethro Tull; for metalcore: BMTH...
there are many bands in UK, much more than the ones I wrote. This is best country in music, no doubt about it.
Led Zeppelin, Beatles, Rolling Stones, Queen, Pink Floyd, The Who, The Kinks, The Animals, The Smiths, Radiohead, Coldplay, Blur, Oasis, Black Sabbath, Iron Maiden, Judas Priest, ELO, Sex Pistols, The Clash, Duran Duran, Deep Purple, Simple Minds and Whitesnake are the best! Sure we have the awful 1D (They are the British equivalent of Nickelback), but these bands can destroy 1D without even trying!

Britain created rock and metal, America improved upon it and made it was it is today. Black Sabbath and the Who laid the foundation, for metal, then guitarists like Randy Rhoads and Eddie Van Halen created a new lead style, along with singer like Ronnie James Dio making it was it is. Motorhead laid the foundation fro thrash metal, and the Bay Area too it to the extreme and made it great. Thank You Britain, for creating America as well as rock, but God Bless America. You have made rock and the world great.
This country created this music and yes Britain has put out a lot of good bands I still say we have the best,
The Offspring, System of a Down, Aerosmith, Metallica, Guns n Roses, Van Halen, Pearl Jam, Green Day, KISS, Linking Park, Bon Jovi, Avenged Sevenfold, Five Finger Death Punch, 3 Doors Down, Motley Crew. All these bands are known just as well as British bands around the world so boom kiss that you Lobsterbacks!
this country has given great bands for rock and roll/classic rock: CCR, Bob Dylan; for hard rock/heavy metal: Aerosmith, Guns N' Roses, BOC, The Jimi Hendrix Experience, KISS; for punk: Ramones, Rise Against; for alternative rock: Nirvana, Alice in Chains, Foo Fighters; for thrash metal: Metallica, Megadeth, Anthrax, Tourniquet, Testament, Deliverance; for prog rock/metal: Dream Theater, Becoming the Archetype, Queensryche; for metalcore: AILY, TDWP, August Burns Red...
since earliest time, USA has given great type of music; and it still is giving it.
The Doors 'Jim Morrison' (The lizard KING)
Bruce Springsteen (always the BOSS)
Paul Simon & Art Garfunkel
Bob Dylan (BEST Storyteller in the world)
Aerosmith, Grateful Death, Green Day, Guns N' Roses, Skid Row, Poison, Kiss, Motley Crue, Santana,
Metallica, Megadeth, Testament, Overkill, Pantera, Anthrax..
The Black Crows, CCR (John Fogerty)
Elvis Presley, Johnny Cash, Willie Nelson, Garth Brooks, Dolly Parton, Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers..
Pearl Jam (Eddie Vedder), Soundgarden-Audioslave (Chris Cornell)
Alice in Chains, Tool, Linkin Park, Slipknot, RATM
Nirvana (Kurt Cobain), Foo Fighters (Dave Grohl)
Creed, Alter Bridge, Tremonti...
John Mayer, Jason Mraz,
Michael Jackson, Madonna, Justin Timberlake, Jay-Z, J LO, Marc Anthony, Gloria Estefan, Tupac, Eminem, Run DMC, DMX, Hammer, Vanilla Ice, Bruno Mars, Maroon 5...
GOD BLESS AMERICA.

Quite a few internationally successful bands for such a small country.
However they take the Eurovision song contest far too seriously.
Sweden has given many rock/metal artists: Yngwie Malmsteen, Sonic Syndicate, Arch Enemy, Blindside, Dark Tranquility, Jerusalem...
The only band that comes into my mind is Opeth.
The hives yay the hives from Sweden

This question is very easy for me cause my favorite bands are from Germany. Tokio Hotel, Cinema Bizarre I mean what could be better than Germany Bands. Is sad that I'm far from the country cause I want to move there to live and I will get the chance to met more amazing music.
German 'music' consists mostly of Bavarians dressed in the lederhosen doing bizarre thigh slapping dances to oompah bands.
Please make them stop.
Rammstein, Blind Guardian, Kreator and Halloween just in metal...
Rammstein is the best one, helloween is just great, Germany has his own genre of music Neue Deutsche Härte... Fun doesn't finish here the best of all are the big four of German thrash Kreator, Sodom, Destruction and Tankard

I'm from america and I say that when looking at Finland. We don't have anything that even touch the epic levels of Nightwish and Sonata Arctica.
Sorry to my fellow Americans but Nirvana and Blink-182 Can't even compete.
Finnish bands are too good. You can listen to bands like poets of the fall
Or rasmus or many they have got talent.
The best here is Children of Bodom, other great bands are Hanoi Rocks and Nightwish
Nightwish, CoB, Sonata Arctica, Stratovarius, Korpiklaani, Ensiferum, Charon, Finntroll, Amberian Dawn, Amorphis, Norther, Turisas, Wintersun, Moonsorrow, Northern Kings, Insomnium, Omnium Gatherum, Tarot, Indica, Poets of the Fall.. Need I say more

Most black metal bands are norwegian, being Gorgoroth and Mayhem the most popular.
Proud norwegian american and the rap here is amaziinng
M2M is a great band with many beautiful songs.
Mayhem, Burzum, Dimmu Borgir, Emperor, Immortal, Windir, Gorgoroth.

Well all I can say is that there are so many great music talents that have come out of Canada, that I wouldn't be able to refer to all of them.
Rush is the best here, other greats bands are Neil Young, Anvil, Exciter, Helix, Nickelback, Steppenwolf...
Sum41. Nickelback, Billy Talent, Alexisonfire and much more bands in Canada to mention with good music.
Arcade dire and Broken Social scene, that's enough to put Canada in the top 3

Lacuna Coil, Rhapsody of Fire, Macbeth and so on...

You think they are British or else but no they are French and girls: Imany, Marina Kaye, Jain, K-Reen, Kayna Samet, Joyce Jonhatan, Zaz...
Daft punk, Serge Gainsbourg, Edith piaf, Phoenix, M83, Mc Solaar, Suprême NTM, Air, 1995... France actually has had and still has wide variety of good artists.
Daft punk. That’s all I have to say
As far as French bands go, well, pretty much everyone’s familiar with the likes of Daft Punk and Air and Justice (whose new album is out this week). But that’s not all there is to French music, y’know. The country has given rise to a number of fascinating musical movements over the years, from the modern chanson of the 1960s through the coldwave of the 1980s (check out this excellent compilation if that genre interests you, by the way) and the more recent explosion of French dance music.

More quality bands than any other countries on this list except maybe the you. K., France, and America.
Denmark gave us Mew, and I honestly believe they're one of the best bands of all time.
We have awesome music here! Fx: Aqua, Nephew, Adele, just to say some names, and our rock music rocks!
Don't forget Mercyful Fate and Volbeat!

A great variety of rock music, but English language is more popular than portuguese, so some translation needed!
Our rock it's authentic and good, but few bands play in english and it's not too popular right now.
My suggests :
Massacration (it's comic but it's good)
Mamonas assassinas (it's comic but it's good)
Ira
Legião Urbana
Raul seixas
Sepultura.'enough said

Australia has some of the most iconic songs coming from Hunters and collectors, Men at work, Mental as anything, Jets, Gangajang, Daddycool, Cold chisel and Australian Crawl. I could go on.
Not whole a lot of big names but the average band is highly talented and creative
Midnight Oil, INXS, Mi-Sex, Jets, Men At Work. Many great bands down here mate
AC/DC is the best from here
other great bands are: Mortification, Wolfmother, Rose Tattoo, Parkway Drive, I Killed the Prom Queen...

Like that unknown genius that never had the chance, if only these bands could have the media support to be listened around the world! Give a try dear reader and be my guest in YouTube following the guide above. You'll be not dessapointed.
I lived in USA for 7 years and I moved to Argentina so far I lived here 1 1/2 years
Argentina and Chile's music have a lot of emotion. That's a plus.
Simply there's nothing that compares in Latin America

The good thing are the bands like Juan Dela Cruz and Eraserheads, other than that it's none
Why the hell is Philippines higher than Aus? And just why is it here in this list?
WE got lot of kick ass music in here bruh,
In philippines are more on soloist.so nah.

a lot of bands...ich liebe dieses Land
After Forever, Within Temptation
Golden earring
Focus
Shocking blue
Andrè rieu
2 unlimited
Vengaboys
Within temptation
After forever
Epica
George baker
Eddy Van Halen
Armin van buuren
Tiësto
Afrojack
Headhunters
Jan akkerman
Vandenberg
Stars on 45
Anouk
Taco
Herman brood
2 brothers on the fourth floor
Pussycat

12012, Abingdon Boys School, Beat Crusaders, BORN, Bump of Chicken, D'espairsRay, Dir En Grey, DOES, the GazettE, Girugamesh, Green, Maximum the Hormone, Miyavi, MUCC, Nightmare, Orange Range, -OZ-, Penpals, the Pillows, Radwimps, Uverworld, Yuki Kajiura.
The Visual Kei scene isn't restricted by genre. Bands and Singers are mostly free to experiment. I think they have some of the best musicians in the world and for the most part, you'll never get bored listening to a band's discography. Styles vary so much, you won't find yourself thinking that you've been listening to the same over and over again. So refreshing.
People always vote for their own country, I am from the US, I think Japan has amazing talent. There best bands include the GazettE, X Japan, Versailles, Dir En Grey, Maximum the Hormone and MANY others. Please, give this country a chance, even though some of the bands are part of the Visual Kei scene which many foreigners don't understand, please look that up before criticizing. It's about the music, not the looks, and Japan has great rock and metal even though Jpop is more famous Jrock.
I might be wrong but I think that Japanese music (rock) is in a higher pitch than most but not too high. which is what I love about it.
The instrument is playing high note but in a metal kind of way and the singer voice is kinda high pitch, but it sounded great.
I love fairies band which is from Japan

We like Pooland, but India has more poo but not in the loo.
Behemoth, Vader, KAT, Coma, Bloodthirst, Christ Agony... This is music from Poland!
And Riverside!

I think that the reason Turkey is that low in the list is because Turkish rock bands do songs that are deeply touching to people who understand what it says in that song. Especially "Duman". Duman (band) has albums that are very different then each other. For example "Köprü altı", this album includes energetic songs but if you listen to "Seni Kendime Sakladım" album you will notice that it's sad and most of the songs wouldn't make sense for a person who does not understand Turkish.
Duman, my favorite band lately. If you like rock n roll with a cultural twist, Duman will not disappoint, it will blow your mind.
Not to mention Mogollar, Cem Karaca, and older 70s artists
Duman and manga are amazing
Turkey has great bands like maNga and Mor Ve Otesi


At least third place. Amazing musical heritage. The rest of the world should feel lucky that the Irish stepped up to the mark, above and beyond that of such a small nation, as usual.
I would say third after United Kingdom and USA. U2, Thin Lizzy, Pogues among best in the world
U2, Thin Lizy, Cranberries, Pogues, Van Morrison. The list goes on, should have been 3rd.
The script is amazing

Yes, my country sure has really good music artists. But the problem is you can't find most of the albums, singles, songs etc. here. Plus no online platform exists here. It's just new generation's have to listen to pirated songs. Believe me I would've love to listen to the music of my country. But this is not for us.
This country has numerous and diverse rock and metal bands.
You can give these bands a try:
Classic rock: LRB, Feedback, Arc
Pop rock: Miles
Hard rock: Warfaze
Prog rock: Artcell
Psychedelic rock: Meghdol, Shironamhin
Metal: Cryptic Fate, Minerva
Alt rock: Black, Aurthohin
Bangladesh should be in top 10.
This country went throug a band music revolution in 70s and 80s and has world class bands.
Should be in top 10

Vetusta morla, heroes del silencio, izal, extremoduro
great bands in Spanish like: Rata Blanca, Tierra Santa, Mago de Oz, Hombres G...
Dude... Rata Blanca is Argentinian...

Korean Pop Wave continues to grow & succeed because younger fans around the world appreciate it. This should be on top 10 because lots of boy bands, girl groups, coed groups & rock bands gained their fame to success!
Why is korea 27 th place it also will came first
FT ISLAND is one of the absolute greatest rock bands in my opinion. Some of the best vocals I’ve ever heard. Day6, Say Yes, and CN Blue are also very good.
no...really schould be first

While not really "best", this country is underrated in terms of music. It has a lot of great bands that are simply unknown to westerners because of language barrier.
Russian rock and metal bands have one of the best lyrics. Unfortunately, to appreciate it you have to understand Russian.
Check out Dvar and Angel Dust Dealers, this bands are incredible.
This guys have their unique style.
