Melodic Horror Metal

Definition:
A metal music sub-genre combing elements of shock rock, doom metal, black metal, and dark-folk music.

Key Characteristics:
- Dark & chromatic melodies.
- Odd & uncommon time signatures.
- Clean & gritty vocal styles.
- Folk instrumentation.
- Distorted electric and acoustic guitars.
- Keyboard and synth FX.
- Lyrical storytelling.
- Lyrical themes of folk horror, supernatural, etc.

“Have you ever heard of ‘Melodic Horror Metal’?” “No, I haven’t” “It’s this new metal sub-genre. I think you’ll dig it!”

by Mitch Harper May 2, 2023

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Metal mickey

Someone who wears braces

"Oi look at Sara she's just got her braces. What a metal mickey'

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Angel Of Metal

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metal

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parking lot metal

A genre of music classified by their bands giving concerts at parking lots, of strip malls or supermarkets. They usually set up their instruments right on the handicapped space. That causes problems.

Mastodon, Idiots on Guitar, Warren Trenchcoat, and Swayzak 1 TOM Robot 0 are examples of parking lot metal bands.

by IDONTMIND August 27, 2017

metal coma

When you are listening to metal music to prevent yourself from going mentally unhinged.

Dude my girl broke up with me so I went into a metal coma.

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