death metal
noun
: a type of heavy metal music that is characterized by the use of dark, violent, or gory imagery
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Items from Learn to Forget include trucker hats, some of which use old English and other fonts commonly found with death metal and hardcore band logos.
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Charlie Vargas, Orange County Register, 15 Feb. 2024
Stylistically, their records exist within the genre of death metal, where the riffs are as heavy as wet sand, and the music proceeds with the hellbent momentum of a horror-movie climax.
—Sam Sodomsky, Pitchfork, 9 Nov. 2023
Raised in a Bay Area commune, Lorin Ashton, now 45, cut his teeth playing bass guitar in a death metal band before pivoting to electronic music in the mid-1990s.
—Delilah Friedler, Rolling Stone, 1 Oct. 2023
Cryptopsy The Canadian technical death metal band claims its first Billboard chart entry, thanks to its new album As Gomorrah Burns.
—Xander Zellner, Billboard, 20 Sep. 2023
Toronto death metal group Tomb Mold have announced their first new album in four years, The Enduring Spirit.
—Nina Corcoran, Pitchfork, 11 Sep. 2023
The Zenith Passage The technical death metal band, from Los Angeles, debuts on Billboard’s charts with its sophomore studio album, Datalysium.
—Xander Zellner, Billboard, 3 Aug. 2023
From there, my musical tastes exploded in various directions: grunge, punk, death metal and eventually indie rock, jazz, classic rock, blues and beyond.
—Hank Shteamer, SPIN, 24 Apr. 2023
One such community can be found in Texas, which might boast the strongest death metal scene in the world right now.
—Brad Sanders, Chron, 6 Apr. 2023
Charlie Vargas, Orange County Register, 15 Feb. 2024
Stylistically, their records exist within the genre of death metal, where the riffs are as heavy as wet sand, and the music proceeds with the hellbent momentum of a horror-movie climax.
—Sam Sodomsky, Pitchfork, 9 Nov. 2023
Raised in a Bay Area commune, Lorin Ashton, now 45, cut his teeth playing bass guitar in a death metal band before pivoting to electronic music in the mid-1990s.
—Delilah Friedler, Rolling Stone, 1 Oct. 2023
Cryptopsy The Canadian technical death metal band claims its first Billboard chart entry, thanks to its new album As Gomorrah Burns.
—Xander Zellner, Billboard, 20 Sep. 2023
Toronto death metal group Tomb Mold have announced their first new album in four years, The Enduring Spirit.
—Nina Corcoran, Pitchfork, 11 Sep. 2023
The Zenith Passage The technical death metal band, from Los Angeles, debuts on Billboard’s charts with its sophomore studio album, Datalysium.
—Xander Zellner, Billboard, 3 Aug. 2023
From there, my musical tastes exploded in various directions: grunge, punk, death metal and eventually indie rock, jazz, classic rock, blues and beyond.
—Hank Shteamer, SPIN, 24 Apr. 2023
One such community can be found in Texas, which might boast the strongest death metal scene in the world right now.
—Brad Sanders, Chron, 6 Apr. 2023
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First Known Use
1984, in the meaning defined above
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“Death metal.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/death%20metal. Accessed 19 Apr. 2024.
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