death metal
nounDefinition 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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FESTIVALS Alt-rock outfit Deftones announced Monday that their genre-bending Dia De Los Deftones music festival will return to San Diego on Nov. 2, with Chvrches taking the second spot on the bill above death metal act Gojira. — Ellise Shafer, Billboard, "Chvrches' Lauren Mayberry & Hatebreed's Jamey Jasta Clash on Twitter Over Deftones Festival Lineup," 30 July 2019 The real payoff here is the songbook of variations on the theme — from easy listening to sensuous R&B to grinding death metal. — Michael Andor Brodeur, BostonGlobe.com, "Revolutionary airports, viral nuts, plastic wrap, and more from the week online," 5 July 2019 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. — Jonathon Keats, Discover Magazine, "Science of Music," 15 June 2018 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. — Geoff Manaugh, The Atlantic, "Drone Cops Take Flight in Los Angeles," 8 June 2018 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. — Janelle Okwodu, Vogue, "Aggretsuko on Netflix: Adorable Anime, or Subversive Millennial Messaging?," 1 May 2018 Psychotic melancholia sounds horrifying, like a German band that plays an obscure subgenre of death metal. — Yusef Roach, Los Angeles Magazine, "The Communal Experience of Going to the Symphony for the First Time," 31 May 2018 Many of her customers are singers of death metal, grindcore and other offshoots of heavy metal rock. — James R. Hagerty, WSJ, "Screeching in a Metal Band Takes Lozenges, Tea and a Patient Vocal Coach," 18 May 2018 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. — Shannon Liao, The Verge, "Someone made that Silicon Valley alert that plays death metal whenever bitcoin’s price moves," 29 Apr. 2018These example sentences are selected automatically from various online news sources to reflect current usage of the word 'death metal.' Views expressed in the examples do not represent the opinion of Merriam-Webster or its editors. Send us feedback.
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