Sometimes it seems that there is a 'scene', or otherwise a group of like minded individuals when it comes to music. Most notably would be the norwegian scene and the swedish death metal scene. There's also a black metal scene in calafornia today called the black twilight circle. I think there was a new york death metal scene with the band morpheus descends (I'm not sure if other bands were part of it though). The florida thrash metal scene. The danish black metal scene of today, which mostly turns out unlistenable noise. What's your favorite metal scene? What's the most weird, interesting, underrated scene of bands you can recommend?

Scenes (as locations were a certain type of style or genre is been played by several bands) its kinda difficult to find today as internet and massive media changed the way people gets influenced musically. Today the Swedish Death Metal Scene (to give a big example) wouldnt be as importante, relevant and influential. But thats just my opinion...there are a few places to look at, take the Savannah (Georgia) sludge scene wich was (is?) pretty great. Kolbtn in Norway, maybe? You could say Sweden has a pretty strong revival metal scene with RAM,In Solitude, Enforcer, Portrait, Ghost, etc.

My favorite is...wait for it...the GREEK scene!
We developed our unique black metal sound in the 90s, but these days our best material (in my opinion) comes in the form of death metal. Mostly OSDM revival, brutal death and grind, but there are still loads of bands playing decent enough black metal.
Athens and Thesaloniki have thriving metal scenes. There are so many metalheads that you're practically tripping over long haired and bearded dudes wherever you go.

I just discovered Dephosphorus the other day and they are AMAZING.

For me, I find the early Finnish scene from the late 80s to mid 90s to be the most interesting.

Xysma, Convulse, Demigod, Demilich, Purtenance, Abhorrence, Amorphis, Funebre, Mordicus, Lubricant, Pakeni, Godfall and so many more interesting bands.

Overall a more unique scene IMO than the early Swedish scene.

Québécois extreme metal is basically the shit. The black metal scene is particularly vibrant, producing some great atmospheric stuff that still has bite and some great DSBM (a genre I usually don't really like). Neige et Noirceure, Sui Caedere, Gris and Sombres Foret are all killer. The death metal scene is pretty awesome too. Lots of well known bands, as well as lots of great underground scenes. The scene seems to focus mostly on tech death, with proggy stuff often thrown in the mix. I've been listening to lots of Eyeless lately.

I agree with Poisonfume, the Greek scene is fantastic. Some of my all time favorite bands are from there. The Aussie blackened thrash scene, known to many, is another notable scene with great bands which are (now) globally recognized.

Ancient Records related bands, Nidaros BM scene

I find the dutch death scene an interesting one.
When it first started every other scene was about being faster and more extreme but the dutch death metal scene initially focused on making slow-midpaced heavy stuff instead.

One word: Australia

The scene down under is absolutely and without question the best scene in Death/Black Metal right now. The sheer number of killer fucking bands blows my mind:

Monomakh: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uEnt8ArId7U

Consummation: http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=pl ... GhmZXrlu0k

Temple Nightside: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ziCoKvRSp20

Ill Omen: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YBpJ-RoiOL4

Cemetery Urn: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QggdzHsHvLM

Moon: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-9TPIdGoPlA

Vahrzaw: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NdGYRBD8Gxk

And that's just a list of the more underground bands still active... doesn't even include big names like Portal or Destroyer 666...

Not so much of a regional scene, but black metal has fostered a couple of really cool groupings of late. The first group I can think of would be bands like Bone Awl and Furdidurke who are mixing black metal with punk. Furdidurke in particular are further associated with CW Productions, which is a label whose acts all sound pretty unified in a unique way - primitive, punky but strikingly melodic and beautiful. See, for example, Cirrhus, Grand Mood, Bilirubin, and Kestrel.

The projects associated with Crepusculo Negro/Rhinocervs/the Black Twilight Circle in California are also worth checking out and exploring.

I'm in New Orleans and have been here off and on for 10 years. The sludge scene is essentially brothers/friends of bigger bands playing occasional gigs waiting to open for Down, Crowbar or Goatwhore. I like the rockier sludge stuff but there's a lot of terrible grindcore to a point where I stopped going to shows unless its a big one.

In Chicago I didn't check out anything, seemed to be a mix.

In Los Angeles I was always hanging at the Rainbow so I just saw the pitiful dregs of wannabe glam kids 25 yrs too late.

The Slovak pagan-black-folk metal scene has some pretty cool stuff: Ancestral Volkhves, Concubia Nocte, Hromovlad, Karpathia. For folk metal that relies more on metal than folk, Slovakia is the way to go. Along with, as vengefulgoat mentioned, the Ancient Nations label in Ukraine (Nokturnal Mortum et al.)

also would like to include the amenta, beyond terror beyond grace, Orpheus omega, Defamer, The Levitation Hex and Adrift for days

The early brazilian extreme metal scene. Pure raw, filthy madness, the way I like it. Obvious names like Sarcófago and Morbid Visions-era Sepultura, but also lesser know stuff like Mystifier http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G7OOxYdB0MU
Psychic Possessor http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uD3HBoBDyS0
Vulcano http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zg6N_QW7XOw

Also the Québec black metal scene as mentioned before. Killer stuff.