Tunesday: Bahrain is fucking metal

[video]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IamEL3ggsRo[/video] As anti-government protests rage in Bahrain, the mood of its citizens is “triumphant” and “warlike,” if the music they are listening to is any indication.

The most popular song in Bahrain within the past hour or so according to Last.fm is Fates Warning’s “The Ivory Gate of Dreams pt. 3,” a heavy metal song that appears quite indicative of the mood in that country.

Lastmood.fm, a tool developed at Music Hack Day New York, ascertains the mood of all of the countries in the world in near-real-time, based on the most popular song there using Last.fm’s popular audioscrobbler, which monitors what users are listening to in their media players, devices, and on-demand music services.

A cynic would say that the only Bahrainians who have Internet right now are Metalheads.