Well, I`m just going by what my mates over there say.
They love it hard, but it`s all been marginalised and minimalised according to them.
Bar the small gigs, so I wouldn`t say spain is the pace to go where the hard sound is prevailant.
From my talkings with peeps over in madrid and barcelona, the hard scene over there is about as big as it is over here.

However I know afair few peeps in the hard circuit have been heading ever further east.