band-ending death

A sudden death of a band member (usually the lead singer) that leads to the band's permanent break up. They will decide that the member that died was irreplaceable and thus cannot go on.

Please note that there are plenty of bands, like the Rolling Stones, that carried on after the loss of a bandmate. Sometimes the surviving members form a new band, like how the surviving members of Joy Division reformed as New Order when Ian Curtis killed himself.

Queen didn't disband when Freddie Mercury passed away and John Deacon left, they just changed as a band.

The Doors was kinda this because they released two shitty albums after Jim Morrison died.
Notable band-ending deaths:
John Bonham (Led Zeppelin)
Adam Yauch (Beastie Boys)
Eddie Van Halen (Van Halen)
The Heartbreakers (Tom Petty)
Neil Peart (Rush)
Marc Bolan (T. Rex)
Lemmy (Motorhead)
Jerry Garcia (The Grateful Dead)
Phife Dawg (A Tribe Called Quest)
Jam Master Jay (Run DMC)
Richard Wright (Pink Floyd)
Maurice Gibb (Bee Gees)
Peter Steele (Type O Negative)
Chris Cornell (Audioslave)
Dolores O'Ridoran (Cranberries)
Kurt Cobain (Nirvana)
And most likely... Taylor Hawkins (Foo Fighters)
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Death by s1

Death is to be shanked or to be removed from earth by Winnie
I felt the death by s1 haunt me
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Death Rattle

A heroic sacrifice. Whenever a person (usually fictional) either holds off or tries to take down an overwhelming amount of enemies, almost always at the expense of their life.
Boromir had a death rattle at the end of the movie.
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death rattle

the sound of a penis being tossed around in a vacuum cleaner
lad 1: What was that sound
lad 2: oh just a death rattle
lad 1: oohhh, so his penis just got sucked off by a vacuum cleaner
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Death Techno

A subgenre of dark techno that is more intense and has stronger instrumentals. Like death metal, it is often more guttural at parts of it, however the gutturality is most often expressed in the instrumentals, rather than the vocals. Like dark techno, death techno is more of a vibe than a defined category and as such, what fits in the subgenre is often subjective.
My favorite death techno song is Poltergeist by Zatox.
by Shugunou March 29, 2023
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Victory or Death

"We will not back down; we will fight until we are met with Victory or Death"
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Death by Bliss

When you have a habit that is clearly bad for your health, but it gives so much happiness...pure joy and bliss, that you just stick with it anyway.
After a life of struggling through sleepless nights, Jane discovered cognac. Now when she wakes in the night, sipping some cognac makes her tickle, giggle, then fall back into a blissful sleep. She know it's unhealthy in the long term, but it's pure joy every single night. She's willing to accept death by bliss.
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