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Death Metal

A form of underground heavy metal that evolved from the '80s Thrash Metal scene, Black Metal, Classical Music, Jazz, and Progressive Rock. Oftentimes considered as "bastardized classical music," Death Metal often uses the technicality and structure of classical music and jazz, and also imitates the sounds of a symphony on highly distorted guitar work. Death Metal vocals are very famous for its intense, gutteral, low pitched, growling vocal style. This is the pinpoint of Death Metal stereotyping, since they are not singing like most popular music nowadays. Because there are an overwhelming amount of notes being played by the guitar, bass, and drums, the vocals cannot be too melodic or rhythmic, so the vocals are used as percussion-like instrument. The drum work in Death Metal is most of the time very fast and technical, combining influence from classical music, jazz, and progressive rock.

Death Metal is also separate into very different sub genres, including Old School Death Metal, Brutal Death Metal, Technical Death Metal, Slam Death Metal, Progressive Death Metal, Melodic Death Metal, Blackened Death Metal, Symphonic Death Metal, Deaththrash, Deathgrind, Crust Death, Death Doom, Funeral Doom, Ambient Death Metal, and many many more.

Death Metal in the mainstream world is often times dismissed, and considered talentless, and a less valid form of music. This is completely false. Death Metal is far more technical than the popular music hitting teenagers nowadays, and has many more musical characteristics than their music. Death Metal is never meant to be mainstream, which is a very good thing, so corporations will never destroy the genre by pissing on it for teenagers to enjoy. They have already tried with Deathcore, a genre that fuses death metal and metalcore, but that has not destroyed the death metal scene yet. In fact, it has made the brotherhood of death metal stronger than ever.
Death Metal: Death, Cannibal Corpse, Cryptopsy, Spawn of Possession, Disgorge, Guttural Secrete, Morbid Angel, Dismember, Vader, Decapitated, Behemoth, Amon Amarth, Insomnium, Aborted, Dying Fetus, Devourment, Necrophagist, Suffocation, Skinless, Deicide, Gorguts, Obituary, Atheist, Opeth, Hypocrisy, Dies Irae, Nile, Hate Eternal, Massacra, Dark Tranquility, etc.
by Trofsky June 19, 2008
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Death grip

A non-medical condition, where a male who excessively masturbates develops callouses on his penis. The penis callouses begin to numb the penis head and causes the penis to become less sensitive to touch via genitals, mouth or hand.

The only known cure of this condition is to stop masturbating as often, to let the callouses face away on the penis.
Fred: Jeff enjoys whacking it too much, that sally can not even get him to cum anymore.

Alex: He's developed DEATH GRIP
by Raphisonfire February 28, 2011
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death by committee

The slow, painful death of a project prior to completion due to its assignment to a committee. May occur due to squabbling, apathy, or a lack of individual accountability among the members.
The club's idea to make a website suffered from death by committee when all of the members assumed someone else would make it.
by Wapt February 12, 2009
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A Little Death

An idiom for orgasm; particularly the state of post orgasmic unconsciousness that some may experience
After a night out, she went home and experienced a little death.
by The Xbox Controller February 17, 2015
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Deathbridge

Lethbridge, Alberta, Canada
Slang term used too describe lethbridge
Deathbridge sucks major ass, theres shit all too do
by Karla January 30, 2004
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Death Metal

The best genre of music ever, created by Cookie Monster in 1983.
by Mr. Zimpy November 23, 2009
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hobo death arena

A strange coliseum-like structure located in Julian B. Lane Riverfront Park in Tampa, Florida on the shores of the Hillsborough River. Dubbed the Hobo Death Arena (or Coliseum) by members of the St. Lawrence University Crew Team in March 2005, it is the backdrop for epic battles between hobos found on the streets by said crew team on their daily runs from the Days Inn on Dale Mabry Boulevard to Julian B. Lane Park for morning practice during Spring Break. The hobos are allowed a choice of weapons - broken 40 oz. bottles, 2x4s, hypodermic needles found washed up on the docks, pieces of shopping carts or coked-out hookers. The winner is rewarded with a week's supply of Colt 40s and the loser's body is dumped in the Hillsborough River.

Common abbreviation is HDA.
When sent to the Hobo Death Arena, the weapon of choice for most competitors is the broken forty.

One time somebody wrote "SHIT" in shit on the wall of the men's bathroom in the Hobo Death Arena. The Director of Rowing called it Performance Art.
by a dud December 15, 2008
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