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Encyclopedia Metallum is an online database containing 109,666 heavy metal bands worldwide, the US has 22,983. This works out to about 72 bands per million residents. Inspired by Jakub Marian’s map of metal bands per capita in Europe, I sought to find out. According to the Encyclopedia Metallum’s data, the state with highest amount of bands (active and inactive) per million residents is Oregon with 146, which is unsurprising given Portland’s well-known prominence. Mississippi has the least with 17, again not surprising. At the city level, the variation is far greater, with some interesting findings.”