The scene in my town is active, but not my taste in metal whatsoever. It's all about grindcore and hardcore or punk around here. There's one band that plays purely instrumentals and they are progressive metal I suppose, and they kick absolute ass. When they play it's an odyssey through your mind, excellent musicians with the capabilities of madmen, it's incredible. The rest are angsty punks with rat tails screaming nonsense with trashy guitars with the whole sex drugs rock n roll attitude going on, thinking they are a metal head because they are leather clad with spieks on their shoulders and when they get drunk they throw bottles at car windows. So I guess depending on who you are it's either here or there, for me it's brats with no talent screaming about break ups and parental issues.