Metal is a genre of music which has been around since the 70's and has become one of the most popular genres of music in modern day society. With the second british invasion of bands like Judas Priest and Iron Maiden, metal was quickly accepted into the American underground. Metal is a very hard genre to define due to the various opinions of many people. Some may say GnR was metal and so it started with bands like that, others may say the Metallica started it all. Whatever you say you have to give credit to Metallica for making it big with metal and making it a more known genre. Whether or not they sold out once they got there, that's not for me to say. Today metal is a global movement and has hundreds of sub-genres that delve deeper into harshness, speed and brutality, but it is safe to say that metal gave them their roots and remains the greatest genre ever.
" Dude did you hear Papa Roach's new single?"
" Yeah, why?"
" I love that kind of metal"
" Fuck you man, here's some Judas stick that in your pipe and smoke it"
" Yeah, why?"
" I love that kind of metal"
" Fuck you man, here's some Judas stick that in your pipe and smoke it"
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One who has/thinks they have a great deal of knowledge, but grossly overuses it.
Someone who, at a party, always finds people walking away from them muttering " What a loser. Doesn't he have anything better to do?" after quoting useless and/or inaccurate statistics to make him look more interesting.
A person that uses their knowledge/feigned knowledge to make someone feel inferior for no other reason than to feel intellectually superior.
Someone who, at a party, always finds people walking away from them muttering " What a loser. Doesn't he have anything better to do?" after quoting useless and/or inaccurate statistics to make him look more interesting.
A person that uses their knowledge/feigned knowledge to make someone feel inferior for no other reason than to feel intellectually superior.
Man at a party: "Discount our neighbors to the east and I think you'll find we've got a sleeping giant on our hands. A veritable sleeping giant."
Everyone else at the party: "What a loser. He is so mentally obese that there should be a Richard Simmons work out tape dedicated to him."
Everyone else at the party: "What a loser. He is so mentally obese that there should be a Richard Simmons work out tape dedicated to him."
by Serendipidity August 14, 2011
Get the Mentally Obese mug.1. a more polite version of mentally retarded. when one is not born with mental deficiencies, but instead develops these traits due to ones own failings.
2. someone who has simply given up and has mentally dropped out of productive society.
2. someone who has simply given up and has mentally dropped out of productive society.
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Pronunciation: ack-yu-tron-ic ment-taale
Function: adjective
Etymology: Combined form of words Acoustic, Electronic, Instrumental
1 : a genre of music fusing acoustic sound, electronic influence, and instrumental structure into a sub genre, and creating a unique musical state of mind. all parts of guitar and percussion are played with basic acoustic and electric guitar, with handrumming being essential.
2 : a synonym for the early a.m. hours between 12 and 6 am, when the music is best listened to. city streets are the ideal listening location. the acoutronic mentale genre is also commonly referred to just as "a.m."
Pronunciation: ack-yu-tron-ic ment-taale
Function: adjective
Etymology: Combined form of words Acoustic, Electronic, Instrumental
1 : a genre of music fusing acoustic sound, electronic influence, and instrumental structure into a sub genre, and creating a unique musical state of mind. all parts of guitar and percussion are played with basic acoustic and electric guitar, with handrumming being essential.
2 : a synonym for the early a.m. hours between 12 and 6 am, when the music is best listened to. city streets are the ideal listening location. the acoutronic mentale genre is also commonly referred to just as "a.m."
by will boyce September 16, 2008
Get the acoutronic mentale mug.One of the many offshoots of the Death Metal Genre, focusing on extreme speed, complexity, Technicality and Chaos while maintaining a aura of Structure. The band Suffocation can be hailed as the father of Brutal Death Metal.
by Eric Alexander April 24, 2005
Get the Brutal Death Metal mug.Sub-genre of heavy metal developed in the early and mid 80s. Although the term had appeared in three notable instances between 1983 and 1985 (Death's "Death by Metal" demo, the German "Death Metal" compilation record and a track from Onslaught's "Power From Hell" LP), it is the Possessed debut "Seven Churches" that is widely regarded as kicking off the movement.
Possessed's use of abrupt tempo changes, gutteral vocals, unusual phrasing and Satanic overtones separated them from the more light hearted, punkish sound of thrash metal. The death metal template would continue to develop as Necrophagia, Death, Morbid Angel, Obituary and Autopsy released their respective debuts. These groups generally focused on horror-movie inspired blood and gore as well as occultist themes. By the 1990s, death metal had exploded in the underground and a number of influential bands rose to prominence. Additionally, if anyone wanted to call themselves death metal, extreme distortion, low guitar tunings and excessively fast tempos were mandatory.
Cannibal Corpse, Suffocation, Dying Fetus and Deicide presented a percussively driven flavor of death metal, while Death, Cynic, Hypocrisy, Atheist and others prided themselves on more intricate and melodic guitar work, as well as lyrics dealing with social and political issues. Among the most extreme bands included both major Disgorges (USA and Mexico, respectively), Devourment and Mortician, who focused on very low tones, both in the guitar tunings and vocal approach. This was in direct contrast to melodic death metal bands such as At the Gates, the later work of Carcass, and In Flames, who often explored tones above middle C, rather than primarily or exclusively focusing on the bass strings.
The accessibility of melodic death metal (and the public's exposure to increasingly aggressive rock) has lead to deathcore, in which groups such as Job For a Cowboy, Winds of Plague and the recent work of Cryptopsy combine the death metal aesthetic with modern hardcore and other accessible styles.
There are a number of other fusion styles that have developed over the years, including the black metal/death metal hybrid "blackened death metal" (Archgoat, Angelcorpse, Blasphemy). Deathgrind or death grind combines death metal with grindcore (Aborted, Circle of Dead Children, Origin). There are also experimental groups such as Portal, Gorguts and Negativa, who use death metal as a basis to explore a number of unusual rock stylings.
Possessed's use of abrupt tempo changes, gutteral vocals, unusual phrasing and Satanic overtones separated them from the more light hearted, punkish sound of thrash metal. The death metal template would continue to develop as Necrophagia, Death, Morbid Angel, Obituary and Autopsy released their respective debuts. These groups generally focused on horror-movie inspired blood and gore as well as occultist themes. By the 1990s, death metal had exploded in the underground and a number of influential bands rose to prominence. Additionally, if anyone wanted to call themselves death metal, extreme distortion, low guitar tunings and excessively fast tempos were mandatory.
Cannibal Corpse, Suffocation, Dying Fetus and Deicide presented a percussively driven flavor of death metal, while Death, Cynic, Hypocrisy, Atheist and others prided themselves on more intricate and melodic guitar work, as well as lyrics dealing with social and political issues. Among the most extreme bands included both major Disgorges (USA and Mexico, respectively), Devourment and Mortician, who focused on very low tones, both in the guitar tunings and vocal approach. This was in direct contrast to melodic death metal bands such as At the Gates, the later work of Carcass, and In Flames, who often explored tones above middle C, rather than primarily or exclusively focusing on the bass strings.
The accessibility of melodic death metal (and the public's exposure to increasingly aggressive rock) has lead to deathcore, in which groups such as Job For a Cowboy, Winds of Plague and the recent work of Cryptopsy combine the death metal aesthetic with modern hardcore and other accessible styles.
There are a number of other fusion styles that have developed over the years, including the black metal/death metal hybrid "blackened death metal" (Archgoat, Angelcorpse, Blasphemy). Deathgrind or death grind combines death metal with grindcore (Aborted, Circle of Dead Children, Origin). There are also experimental groups such as Portal, Gorguts and Negativa, who use death metal as a basis to explore a number of unusual rock stylings.
Cannibal Corpse is perhaps the most highly recognized band in the death metal community, and one of the few that has sold over one million albums.
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