Metal Invasion Radio

Among the 710 stations in France with pages, Metal Invasion Radio is around the halfway mark. Anything in this stretch is reachable from the country's numbered pages rather than from its front table, which is why those pages exist.

France's directory presence is led by French, with 88 stations broadcasting in English behind it. Metal Invasion Radio is one of that second group, large enough that the country hub prints it as its own bar rather than folding it into a remainder.

Where else English is on air, according to the same snapshot: mostly United States, United Arab Emirates and United Kingdom. The shelf lists all 5,984 of them together, which is the view a country hub cannot give.

Two stations in France lead with the tag hard rock, and Metal Invasion Radio is one of them. That is a small enough group to hear end to end, and the tags are the broadcasters' own words rather than a classification imposed here.

The format here is AAC, against a listing for France overwhelmingly made of MP3. Both play in a browser; the difference shows up in how much quality survives at a given bitrate, where AAC has the advantage at lower rates.

Its audio comes from radio.metal-invasion.fr. One other station in France streams from the same host, which is a smaller sharing than the big platforms and often means the same people run them all.