A form of 80's teenybopper music made primarily by effeminate men wearing makeup and dressed like women, with stereotypical 80's big hair. After an initial wave of it fizzled out in 1987, it resurfaced just a couple of years later with a short-lived new breed of even lamer bands. Success in hair metal was primarily achieved through placing primary importance on the ability to pose for the camera, and comprising your band with simpletons with little or no musical ability, much less creativity. Once the formula was in place, it was just a matter of finding gullible losers to buy into the swindle. MTV, which started out as a music television channel, obliged, making this subgenre of wimp rock popular at the time. Perhaps the most enjoyable aspect of hair metal was it's juvenile lyrics. Never intentionally bad, the lyrical wasteland was a direct result of the limited intellectual capacities of the band members.
Hair metal was made popular by bands like Poison, Warrant, Winger, Slaughter, White Lion, Trixter, Skid Row, Motley Crue, Kix, and the Bulletboys.
by Axl Gump November 04, 2006
(Adjective)
A phrase used in the heavy metal community to describe something that falls into the following categories:
-Violent
-Ultraviolent
-Excessive blood and gore
-Decapitation
-Other human or animal mutilation
-Death
-Zombies
-Dead bodies
-Usually horror movies/games
A phrase used in the heavy metal community to describe something that falls into the following categories:
-Violent
-Ultraviolent
-Excessive blood and gore
-Decapitation
-Other human or animal mutilation
-Death
-Zombies
-Dead bodies
-Usually horror movies/games
During a movie, while a few guys watch a slasher movie where someone gets chopped in half, someone comments by saying "Dude that was totally death metal."
"Hey did you hear the story about Jeffery Dahmer?! That guys is pretty death metal!"
"Hey did you hear the story about Jeffery Dahmer?! That guys is pretty death metal!"
by Nick Galvatron April 21, 2008
A subgenre of Heavy Metal, mostly underground (I've never heard any on the radio), heavy medievel themes. Things such as Kights Templar, swrods, the Crusades, and war. That sort of stuff. Very fast. Much like death and heavy metal.
by Naes June 02, 2003
by llkktfde December 05, 2006
What people called grunge before that term had a real definition, due to the combination of influences from metal and from 1960s garage rock.
by Rattus cattus October 19, 2006
Progressive metal is a sub genre of rock that usually has guitars with distortion, wah, compression and other effects that help people feel the music. Lyrics are usually about things that are abnormal or abstract like space. Multiple time signatures long songs, elaborate solos, and softly spoken or yelled lyrics (not like death grunts )
by the man in blue February 09, 2006
by Don’t use your real name :P September 25, 2019