It's a derogative terminology to refer to power metal since most power metal musicians consume cocaine
by William Galos October 22, 2020
Get the Powder Metalmug. The absolute purest form of Heavy Metal music.
For relatively new bands who have taken inspiration from The Metal Gods.
The Proper Metal sound is personified by screaming guitars with face melting solos, thunderous drums and pounding basslines.
Proper Metal singing styles can vary, but they usually share a powerful and energetic quality. This could be anything from Ozzy Osbourne's signature growl to Rob Halford's soaring high notes. Proper metal lyrics often deal with dark or serious subjects, like war, rebellion, and the occult. They can also be fantastical or explore mythology and history.
To be classified as Proper Metal the dress code is critical and comprises the following:
Leather (black or white)
Other proper metal band T shirts
Studs & bullet belts
Bare chests are encouraged
Long hair (when possible)
A single member sporting a strong moustache is not uncommon.
Denim (if worn) must be torn or aged
*Bright blue spandex is also perfectly acceptable.
*dryrobes and anything frilly pink in colour is absolutely not acceptable.
Proper Metal equipment is mainly electric:
Flying V guitars or similar
Firebird basses or similar
Way too many amps
Absolutely MASSIVE drum kit
* A mic stand that can be thrown about easily
* under no circumstances should the mic stand be so big that you can either mount it or hide behind it. That is NOT proper Metal!
For relatively new bands who have taken inspiration from The Metal Gods.
The Proper Metal sound is personified by screaming guitars with face melting solos, thunderous drums and pounding basslines.
Proper Metal singing styles can vary, but they usually share a powerful and energetic quality. This could be anything from Ozzy Osbourne's signature growl to Rob Halford's soaring high notes. Proper metal lyrics often deal with dark or serious subjects, like war, rebellion, and the occult. They can also be fantastical or explore mythology and history.
To be classified as Proper Metal the dress code is critical and comprises the following:
Leather (black or white)
Other proper metal band T shirts
Studs & bullet belts
Bare chests are encouraged
Long hair (when possible)
A single member sporting a strong moustache is not uncommon.
Denim (if worn) must be torn or aged
*Bright blue spandex is also perfectly acceptable.
*dryrobes and anything frilly pink in colour is absolutely not acceptable.
Proper Metal equipment is mainly electric:
Flying V guitars or similar
Firebird basses or similar
Way too many amps
Absolutely MASSIVE drum kit
* A mic stand that can be thrown about easily
* under no circumstances should the mic stand be so big that you can either mount it or hide behind it. That is NOT proper Metal!
That is not proper metal and I don’t like it.
The opposite to proper metal is the sophisticated “clever Metal” and the two should not be confused.
The opposite to proper metal is the sophisticated “clever Metal” and the two should not be confused.
by Onesmartfella March 31, 2024
Get the Proper Metalmug. When a metal head reaches a state of pure metal ecstasy they make the claw with their hand and raise it up.
The true metal claw can be likened with holding an imaginary chalice filled with somthing metal....like sacrificial blood or beer.
Singers also use this hand gesture when feeling extra metal, godlike or just an extreme metal surge.
This is not exclusive to a live show but can also be done while driving and/or listening to ones favorite cassette tape.
Not to be confused with either the devil horns hand sign as these are 2 distinct gestures OR the "mall claw" which is a 1980s hairstyle achieved with heat and Aqua-net hairspray.
The true metal claw can be likened with holding an imaginary chalice filled with somthing metal....like sacrificial blood or beer.
Singers also use this hand gesture when feeling extra metal, godlike or just an extreme metal surge.
This is not exclusive to a live show but can also be done while driving and/or listening to ones favorite cassette tape.
Not to be confused with either the devil horns hand sign as these are 2 distinct gestures OR the "mall claw" which is a 1980s hairstyle achieved with heat and Aqua-net hairspray.
by Em Cloud July 31, 2021
Get the Metal Clawmug. Metal Gear (Japanese: メタルギア, Hepburn: Metaru Gia) are the mecha in the Metal Gear series.12 In the series, a Metal Gear is a bipedal nuclear weapons-equipped tank. The Metal Gears are typically autonomous nuclear launch platforms which the player must destroy to save the world and complete the game. Often, confronting the latest Metal Gear model is one of the final challenges of each game, These things have been introduced in Metal Gear Solid, these things are pretty self explanatory.
To put it simply its just a Big Mech Armed with Guns and Nuclear powered Rockets, Even nukes in some cases.
They are commonly shown with a Huge High Frequency blade to battle other Metal gears.
To put it simply its just a Big Mech Armed with Guns and Nuclear powered Rockets, Even nukes in some cases.
They are commonly shown with a Huge High Frequency blade to battle other Metal gears.
by Uranatis September 13, 2023
Get the Metal gearmug. A sub-genre of metal music characterised by whimsical performances/gimmicks/lyrics designed to enhance a band's "shock value" and "approachability". Examples include babymetal, okilly dokilly, Belushi speedball and psychostik
by ToneDeafJoe July 5, 2025
Get the Joke Metalmug. A musically watered down style of metal that's meant to be as inoffensive and possible and appeal to the widest demographic possible. Also commonly overlaps with octanecore.
"Old school" butt metal is basically mediocre groove metal/NWOAHM, it can also surprisingly overlap with (melodic) extreme metal, for example FFDP, Damageplan and the album Trust No One by DevilDriver
"New school" butt metal is typically inoffensive, easily digestible metalcore, for example Bad Omens, I Prevail, Spiritbox, new Of Mice & Men, new Architects and most legacy metalcore acts trying to be relevant nowadays (Atreyu)
"Old school" butt metal is basically mediocre groove metal/NWOAHM, it can also surprisingly overlap with (melodic) extreme metal, for example FFDP, Damageplan and the album Trust No One by DevilDriver
"New school" butt metal is typically inoffensive, easily digestible metalcore, for example Bad Omens, I Prevail, Spiritbox, new Of Mice & Men, new Architects and most legacy metalcore acts trying to be relevant nowadays (Atreyu)
"Dude, that's some shitty ass butt metal. Do you actually listen to Damageplan?"
"Shut up, you listen to Spiritbox and I Prevail. We're not so different"
"Shut up, you listen to Spiritbox and I Prevail. We're not so different"
by mish1 November 12, 2023
Get the butt metalmug. A subgenre of hardbass with ominous and infernal atmosphere. It contains dark, distorted, metallic bamboo-basses (donks) and scary vocals (moans, shouts or laughs) or even rap. The first metal shade track was made by DJ Bar@bass in around 2005. The most notable artist are DJ Surov, DJ Rentgen, Just Motion, Beat Of Bass, DJ Bampiness, DJ B'lOod, Liquid Sound, Wicked Gummi, Dread System, DJ Chuck, Metall Scary, DJ Danger, Dimsound, DJ Frostb1t and Obscure Candy.
Artyom: Damn, look at those gopniks, seems like they're listening to metal shade!
Mikhail: Yeah, they from Wicked Gummi's district.
Mikhail: Yeah, they from Wicked Gummi's district.
by Kiriusz March 14, 2019
Get the Metal shademug.