For the Portuguese Goth Metal Bands Lyrics

Lyric discussion by cbingham 

Cover art for For the Portuguese Goth Metal Bands lyrics by Mountain Goats, The

I'm guessing this song is about how bands from non-English speaking countries work their butts off but don't find any success because the music-buying market is dominated by English-speaking countries. "Finally head west, but it's a dead end:" some bands like Whitesnake say that they weren't popular until they were popular in the U.S.: being popular in their own countries wasn't enough because the largest music-buying market is the U.S. But we speak English in the U.S. not Portuguese so it's almost impossible for a Portuguese band to get popular here. Portuguese bands can headline festivals in Brazil because they speak Portuguese there.

Celtic Frost are a Swiss band. I don't know them very well though, so I don't know which album of theirs is the one that everybody hates.