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One distinct feature of #USBM is its utter lack of nationalistic elements. European #blackmetal bands sing a lot about their pre-Christian national mythologies and/or even infuse their music with a dose of 19th-century Romantic nationalism.
But I have yet to hear a USBM band sing about the Land of the Brave, Home of the Free, etc. Instead, I've heard Panopticon sing about the history of labor struggle in Kentucky, and Wolves in the Throne Room is philosophically closer to 1960s hippies than Norwegian BMers.
The reason, I think, is because the US has never been a nation-state and doesn't really have a national mythology. One of the strengths of black metal is its ability to localize, and we have all seen how USBM bands localize differently than their European counterparts.
