[1] According to Banchs, South Africa has developed a robust metal community due to the existing music industry and a large population.

For example, the government and the N.G Kerk banned certain records from being imported, and fans of the genre faced hostility from the public, with accusations of Satanism.

[11] Zimbabwe held its first documented metal concert in Harare in 2015,[12] and the first album in Shona, by the band Dividing the Element, was released in 2018.

[16] In January 1997, between 78 and 87 metal fans were forcibly removed from their homes and imprisoned under Egypt's statute against the "contempt of heavenly religions"[17] and for obscene acts, drug possession, and promoting extreme ideas.

The media took hold of the information about the arrests and spread stories of drug use, Satanic rituals, animal sacrifice, and orgies.

[17] The metal scene retreated following the crackdown but came back slowly and cautiously to avoid suspicion in the 2000s, and it has since largely recovered.

[27] Algeria's metal community is strong, beginning in the 1990s as an underground movement during the civil war, though it has also sustained attacks by the media and the public.

As raw as it is refreshing, metal's rise in the continent had yet to hear such a full embrace of the pre-colonial experience that assaults your stereo, both lyrically and musically".

[36] Researchers attribute the shortage of metal music in African countries to multiple factors, including a lack of urbanization, inadequate internet access, and a dearth of venues and record labels.