Metal Band Lands

World Cup

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Discover a band. Get to know the cultures of

metal artists. Be a more worldly

metalhead. ~

Here’s where you can…

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Band: Krisiun

Sub-genre: Death Metal

Land: Brazil

At most record stores, we’d probably be asking

for, say,

K r i s i u n ’s

Southern Storm

in Portuguese . D M

But if we were to head up to the Amazon, we might wanna brush up

on the language of the

Yanomami , an indigenous tribe

of northern Brazil.

You know how many of your favorite metal songs are

about

wondrous places

and

odd myths? D M

Well, check out what

Brazil is also

known for.

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Mount Roraima

Bordered by Brazil , Venezuela and Guyana

A Myth holds that it’s the stump of a tree, felled by the trickster, Makunaima

Home of carnivorous Pitcher plants

How metal is that?

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Tribes, like the Yanomami, still call Brazil home.

Thanks to Makunaima’s trickery, Mt. Roraima can now be admired.

Portuguese is the official language there.

“Futebol,” anyone?

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Tune in next week for another episode of

Metal Band Lands

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