death metal

noun

: a type of heavy metal music that is characterized by the use of dark, violent, or gory imagery

Examples of death metal in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

There are some fine metal bands visiting Connecticut this week, from the darkly improvisatory Puscifer to Michigan death metal icons The Black Dahlia Murder to the local nu-metal act Cheem. —Christopher Arnott, Hartford Courant, 4 Apr. 2026

In between their trips to visit national parks together, the couple enjoyed attending death metal concerts and collecting crystals. —Julian Roberts-Grmela, New York Daily News, 4 Apr. 2026

Everything but death metal and gangster rap. —Justin Fenner, Robb Report, 22 Feb. 2026

Crystallizing in the early ’90s at a time when American death metal was leaning into gory extremity (and the Norwegians were just actually killing people), the style offered a whimsical counterbalance to all the shock and horror. —Sam Goldner, Pitchfork, 17 Feb. 2026

Word History

First Known Use

1984, in the meaning defined above

Rhymes for death metal

• gunmetal
• nonmetal
• resettle
• teakettle
• unsettle
• betel
• cetyl
• kettle
• mettle
• nettle
• petal
• setal