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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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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In lesser hands, this would have been a death metal dirge.
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What was the media-inflamed East Coast vs. West Coast beef but a battle between rap genres no different than when a death metal enthusiast declares their hatred for alternative punk?
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There are also some nods to the group’s beginnings as a melodic death metal band and several nonsensical interludes.
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First Known Use of death metal
1984
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