Definition of death metal
: a type of heavy metal music that is characterized by the use of dark, violent, or gory imagery
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The Semantics of Music Listeners who can get caught up in the beautiful sadness of a ballad or the intense anger of death metal know music carries meaning.
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At a time when police SWAT teams have become known for training videos soundtracked by death metal, seeing an aircraft such as this buzzing outside your apartment window might not immediately inspire dread.
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Over 10 episodes, the charm of each death metal song (Retsuko’s preferred genre) doesn’t fade even as the music becomes less of a coping mechanism and more of a reflection of her true personality.
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Psychotic melancholia sounds horrifying, like a German band that plays an obscure subgenre of death metal.
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Many of her customers are singers of death metal, grindcore and other offshoots of heavy metal rock.
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Now, an Icelandic website design agency called Viska has created a web version of Gilfoyle’s death metal alert — which is just as startling as promised.
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Finally, an excuse to start that death metal project.
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The last few years have seen the group shift their interests towards various forms of extreme metal, and incorporate moments of death metal, black metal, and pummeling Sepultura-style nu-metal into their punk framework.
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First Known Use of death metal
1984
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