by george January 21, 2005
The best form of music for fighting, getting things done, and generally feeling high and aggressive. There is a really weak form of metal out now called Nu-Metal, in which the guitarists are always proud of the fact they can't play, and the lyrics are utterly unintelligible. It doesnt matter though as long as you have an eyebrow piercing, a goatee beard and live with your mom. That's not proper metal, it's just gay and you know it.
Proper metal is Black Sabbath, Pantera, Ozzy and anything else which doesn't take itself too seriously. It helps if the guitarist can play proper guitar solos too, but really being able to drink English quantities of beer and roll joints is the acceptable minimum for a metal guitarist. Being too good means you spent too much time practising as a kid and not enough time puking and laughing about it with the bad influence kids at school.
Proper metal is Black Sabbath, Pantera, Ozzy and anything else which doesn't take itself too seriously. It helps if the guitarist can play proper guitar solos too, but really being able to drink English quantities of beer and roll joints is the acceptable minimum for a metal guitarist. Being too good means you spent too much time practising as a kid and not enough time puking and laughing about it with the bad influence kids at school.
Dimebag Darrell (note daft name) had a stupid shaped guitar, sweated a lot, like to get stoned and had a pink beard. He could also play properly. Hence he is a great example of a "proper metal" guitarist.
by a guy who knows February 27, 2004
A genre of copycats.Has many subgenres which are created when one band comes up with some new goth fetish such as pierced cock metal or upsidedown cross rammed up your own butthole metal.Which then is immediately copied by all of the mindless idiots and morons which is how all new subgenres of metal are born.Sometimes they like to add the word "core" to the end in an attempt to make the new subgenre seem more edgy or hard."TheI got 666 tattooed on my cock subgenre of metal is really misunderstood man." Or "oh wow check out my mom fucked a goat and I took a shit on her chest metal,it's really the best existing example of animal porn core.
by skeptic September 17, 2006
A sad,pathetic excuse for a music genre which I,as a classic rock fan,have absolutely zero respect for.
by a ha ha ha November 04, 2005
A genre of popular music characterized by a heavy, aggressive sound, the usage of guitar distortion and drums, and great power (often manifested in screamed lyrics and chaotic sounding guitar). Unfortunately, like other genres of popular music, it tends to emphasize style over substance. Additionally, it has a slew of subgenres that seem to fragment at the slightest provocation. While it has power, most metal musicians simply don't have the skill to harness that power effectively.
by Eddy1701 March 17, 2006
a type of music evolved from bands in the 60s like black sabbath and led zepplin that paved the way for metal to come into the 70s such as iron maiden and motorheadwho paved the way for bands in the 80s like slayer and pantera and megadeth and anthrax. Slayer with its fast riffs paved the way for faster drumming and riffs from bands like napalm death and morbid angel. In the late 80s early 90s there was hair metal which isnt even metal the there was grunge and then after grunge came the breakthrough of scandinavian metal like mayhem, emporer, borknager, and gorgoroth and things in that category now comes newer metal of today like lamb of god which was originally called burn the preist, and killswitch engage, god forbid, shadows falls, and more
by fat dan November 30, 2004
Metal is a genre of music. D-uhhh. And like any variety of music, weighing its relative merits to other types is a waste of time because beauty is in the ear of the listener.
Metal is industrial-strength rock.
Metal is industrial-strength rock.
I like Marilyn Manson, Rammstein, and System of a Down. I also like My Chemical Romance, Green Day, Badly Drawn Boy, Franz Ferdinand, and Mozart. Go figure. Not everyone who listens to metal is a metalhead.
by Wolfgang Heartman June 23, 2005