Easy for me as I know black metal (extreme metal in general) quite well, so I got 18/20 (they did put some obscure bands in there). But that is funny how close some names look/sound.
As someone else pointed out, they should've added more Swedish bands (was Marduk there? I don't think so?) so that it would be harder even for Swedes, I guess. But then again, Sweden is better known for death metal and melodic death metal (that must sound funny for non-metalheads!), and those bands tend to have english names, such as At The Gates, In Flames, Dismember or Entombed. Hard to mistake for Ikea brands!
Some are, others are more or less punny/witty/semi-relevant nouns/adjectives/adverbs. One example I remember from the quiz is the oven called "Dåtid", which sort of means "past time".
Edit: Of course there's a relevant section on the Wikipedia page, should've guessed. :)
I'm a little familiar with IKEA stuff and not at all familiar with the bands, and I got 13/20. I recognized a couple of IKEA names, so those were easy. Otherwise, I pretty much used the heuristic of, "if this is reasonably pronounceable by the average American, it's probably IKEA". That didn't work great, but it seems to have done better than chance.
Every metalhead on HN right now is debating with themselves on whether or not to remark on the the fact that most of those bands were black metal. Metalheads love genre taxonomy (well, music fans do in general). To 'get it wrong' can stir a whole cauldron of reactions!
> IKEA is that friendly shop where you get cheap furniture from the inside of a giant, unending warehouse. Black metal is the kind of music that sounds like someone screaming while trapped inside a burning church. They each possess a fervent fan base. And to tell you the truth, the names of the furniture in IKEA sound a lot like the names of black metal bands.
In the body text down at the bottom of the front page.
Not going to see, seeing IKEA or Death and then reading the description mentioning black metal kinda irked me a little. And in that moment I was that guy.
Much too easy as a metal-head as well. My only gripe is that there are a lot of bands in there that aren't death-metal. Every kind of extreme music isn't death-metal people!
Yeah I guess, the only problem was that:
IKEAorDeathVikingDoomDroneSludgeCelticPaganGoreGrindThrashMetal.com was already taken so they had to shorten it a little.
Even easier if you're both swedish and have at least some knowledge in metal bands (coming from a guy that shared rehearsal space with Meshuggah in the late 80's).
A friend of mine grew up in Norrland and sings punk.
Long ago, when I talked to her about the obvious superiority of Death Metal and why Meshuggah is the Answer, she said -- "Oh, drool... some of those cute boys were a few classes below me in school." :-)
While I Bathory was a big influence for a lot of bands, Possessed and Death were both producing rehearsal tapes and demo tapes in '84. Hellhammer (of Switzerland) was arguably more important with their Satanic Rites demo, in '83 [1]. Note I'm not disagreeing with you, just discussing degrees of influence. Bathory's influence would be much more important in the first and second wave of black metal.
I generally cite the triad as thus: Bathory, Hellhammer and Slayer, all of which had releases in the 1983-1984 period. Sodom is also important. Death, less so, since its demo at that point sounded more like speed metal (it was only after the time spent with Repulsion, formerly Genocide, that Chuck hit on the death metal formula). If we're into the 1984-85 period with Possessed, we also need to include Sepultura, Master/Deathstrike, and Morbid Angel.
You scored 20 out of 20!
Congrats you are...
True Kvlt.
Either you work at IKEA or you played drums for Bathory, because your knowledge is at the level of dare we say it, the cloven hooved one himself. That’s right, we’re talking about Ingvar Kamprad. We’re almost afraid to ask you to peep out our agency site. But please do, oh dark master.
And I don't even listen to a quarter as much Black Metal as I do Death or Thrash... yikes. I've only been to Ikea once though, so my strategy was to guess Ikea for every name that I didn't specifically recognize as a metal band. "Norden" almost tripped me up.
Funny idea. But my colleagues must have been really surprised by the sound of Burzum coming from my laptop, even though it was during a lunch break. Anyway, nice to see so many metalheads here on HN, stay trve! \m/
I really hope I never have to have a LACK table in my home again ;) For what they cost they are a great and functional piece of furniture, but once you have like $100 worth of LACK tables, you should really stop.
>You scored 20 out of 20!
>Congrats you are...
>True Kvlt.
>
>Either you work at IKEA or you played drums for Bathory,
>because your knowledge is at the level of dare we say it,
>the cloven hooved one himself. That’s right, we’re talking
>about Ingvar Kamprad. We’re almost afraid to ask you to
>peep out our agency site. But please do, oh dark master.
>
>We bow to you, Your friends at Gatesman+Dave
Not surprisingly, my Swedish coworker got 20/20. I got 10/20 which given I was basically guessing/coin tossing every time is statistically sound.
Apparently, its so easy because while Ikea names are kind of random, they mean something or are a name for a person/place, etc. Where as unlike most black metal bands here (whose names usually are based on some actual word with a dark meaning), the words for Nordic bands are mostly made up and basically mean nothing.
Nice idea!
What really bugs me though is that when you try to use the back button in your browser you lose all progress and have to start again...
maybe implement a router component or something!
apart from this great job
This map is of metal bands in general, not just death metal.
The site that this data is sourced from, www.metal-archives.com, might be of interest to some non-metalheads. It is an excellent example of a impressively complete crowd-sourced archive and a testament to the huge nerd/collector/aspie population in metal.
I was thinking the same after getting the first 6 or so right. I ended up with 14/20 right, and I'm not familiar with metal bands, IKEA, or Scandinavian names.
As someone else pointed out, they should've added more Swedish bands (was Marduk there? I don't think so?) so that it would be harder even for Swedes, I guess. But then again, Sweden is better known for death metal and melodic death metal (that must sound funny for non-metalheads!), and those bands tend to have english names, such as At The Gates, In Flames, Dismember or Entombed. Hard to mistake for Ikea brands!