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 4, 2006
Get the hair metalmug. (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
Get the Death Metalmug. 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 1, 2003
Get the Power metalmug. by llkktfde December 7, 2006
Get the death metalmug. 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 20, 2006
Get the garage metalmug. 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 July 16, 2008
Get the progressive metalmug. One who is commonly referred to as Metallic Daniel because of his random acts of pedophilia in the Metal Dan style. One performs this task on local children (boys) on the periphery of the academy at which one attends. However this sex act can be performed anywhere and is often frowned upon by nearby civilians.
Sara: I can't believe that Metallic Daniel had the nerve to Metal Dan the headmaster's son, that's so disgusting!
Jack: Eh, depends on what you're into.
Jack: Eh, depends on what you're into.
by meatycock November 30, 2011
Get the Metallic Danielmug.