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Originally Posted by Quoth
Even Norwegian Death Metal is a thing, though I have never knowingly listened to it.
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Usually the geographic labels are there because many of the musicians in that scene are either listening to each other or sometimes even in the same bands, so they might develop some flavor of the genre sound that makes it distinctive in context, but not obvious to the lay-person. "Florida Death Metal", for example, included bands like Death, Morbid Angel, and Atheist, and those guys all listened to each other. They would collectively sound distinct from the various branches of European death metal.
I'm not familiar with Norwegian Death Metal specifically, but Norway was more internationally known in the early 90s for its Black Metal bands, so I'd wager a guess that their own flavor of Death metal probably has some Black Metal influence (not
black influence, mind you--what with the white supremacists that were something of a hallmark of that genre).