Death metal is characterized mostly by absolutely unintelligible vocals - often not even real words - and drummers who only know how to use thier bass pedal.
by Adam Laughlin July 23, 2005
An extreme form of heavy metal which contains blast beats, double bass, growling vocals and distorted guitars. Most songs are about the grotesque and darkside of life. While most of these bands claim to have the worlds most talented musicians, they all seem to sound identical.
Hey didn't this song already pass? No, we're already on track #10, but what did you expect? It's Death Metal.
by Anonymous July 31, 2003
An aural stimulation that has somewhat been related to bleeding of the ears, an excess production of testosterone, and the utter pissing off of rap fans around the world. In fact, this form of music is just white noise set to very fast beats, but due to a certain property only evident in angry, white, suburbanite males, this white noise translates into very fast, very technical, and very well written music (see: necrophagist OMG) Death metal musicians tend to have an extreme amount of skill, using secret techniques taught to them by subliminal messaging through the Slayer Compact Disc, Reign In Blood, of only which a few copies exists today, that produces this extreme effect. It is said that there are secret rituals in Greg's Basement that are used to summon the almighty Slayer, involving the parting of a chicken, dipping your head in entrails for apples, and going trick or treating in the middle of august. Avoid death metal fans at all cost. They are infected with nerd syndrome, a very infectious disease which you may catch after only one listen to a death metal CD. If you ever encounter one of these nerds, the obvious symptoms are as follows: Obesity, extreme paleness of the skin, acne, a lack of social awareness, stuttering, the tendency to talk to oneself, a delusion that they are OMG TEH HOTNESS. Run.
Death metal fan: Blah blah blah blah Vader blah blah Monstrosity, blah blah blah blah tremelo picking blah blah blah Cryptopsy, blah blah blah blah blah blastbeats.
Death metal band: Blah blah blah blood, blah blah blah blah blah blah guts blah blah blah anal blah blah poop, blah blah blah blah knife blah blah blah satan blah god.
Death metal band: Blah blah blah blood, blah blah blah blah blah blah guts blah blah blah anal blah blah poop, blah blah blah blah knife blah blah blah satan blah god.
by Lado July 31, 2006
Complicated, intense, fast-paced instrumentals. Often accompanied, but not always, with references to death and satan, probably to give the band an excuse to use some really good sounding guitar riff they heard somewhere. Some people can't tell one death metal song from another, but they probably rarely ever listen to it.
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by Dead Man Talking September 12, 2003
A term for a person who is an active listener of Death Metal. Usually Death Metal is the only genre they listen to and they condemn all other music. Usually Power Metal, Nu-Metal, Rap, and Emo. Most Death Metallers heard so much as 10 seconds of a song in each of those genres, or just hate them because another Death Metaller hates them.
Usually Death Metallers are anti-social. They believe that listening to Metal makes them superior to anyone who doesn't. They take music way too seriously, they never talk to anyone who likes music other than Death Metal. So usually they have few or no friends. So they talk on Metal forums such as the Ultimate Metal forum. Conversations on those forums are usually about Metal, how everything besides Metal sucks, and how everyone is an idiot for making fun of them for liking Death Metal. Death Metallers are usually assholes to you if you don't like Death Metal, if you talk to one about music other than Death Metal you will most likely get a "you're fucking retarded". It is hard to talk to a Death Metaller about anything other than music because thats all that they are interested in.
In short Death Metallers are usually narrow minded anti-social elitists.
Usually Death Metallers are anti-social. They believe that listening to Metal makes them superior to anyone who doesn't. They take music way too seriously, they never talk to anyone who likes music other than Death Metal. So usually they have few or no friends. So they talk on Metal forums such as the Ultimate Metal forum. Conversations on those forums are usually about Metal, how everything besides Metal sucks, and how everyone is an idiot for making fun of them for liking Death Metal. Death Metallers are usually assholes to you if you don't like Death Metal, if you talk to one about music other than Death Metal you will most likely get a "you're fucking retarded". It is hard to talk to a Death Metaller about anything other than music because thats all that they are interested in.
In short Death Metallers are usually narrow minded anti-social elitists.
by joe725 December 22, 2007
Lets all go back to the old days of ROCK... you have various forms like alternate, pop, light, gothic, satanic, and the best hard rock...bands like deep purple, led zeppelin and black sabbath are hard rock bands.... then in the 80's they changed to metal then came heavy metal, heavy metal bands are like judas priest, iron maiden, pantera and anthrax and so forth, still I class this as hard rock..but they call it heavy metal. You got lots of forms of metal these days and death metal stands alone, its not gothic or fantasy I call it where you run around naked and bite people like a vampire, thats gothic. so to be classed as death metal you do not sing about satan...thats more like satanic rock and its not death metal by far. To be a death metal band you must sing about death, your first clue is they call it DEATH metal.... bands like cannibal corpse has songs like "hammer smashed face" so if you get yer face smashed in by a hammer hmmm death can be the result, or like the song "fucked with a knife" hmmm chances are you will die if you decide to fuck yerself with a knife, so bands like cannibal corpse I would assume sings about the ways of DEATH so I think you can say they are DEATH metal 4sure. If you sing about anything else then how could it be Death Metal... Death and the ways of dying are brutal, cold and sadistic in this music, you don't sing about gramma dying from old age but if she got beat to death by a baseball bat then yeah whew thats death metal 4sure. So now you know the word DEATH has to be why they make songs, not satan or being a vampire or being political has to do with being thrilled by death. You must love the word DEATH and the music will make you want to hear more. It's vulgar and disturbing and sometimes insane and to me its great music. I think Death metal is way above all forms of metal and will kill to be the best form of metal, get it hehehe kill... okay remember the word DEATH before you play your gothic satanic political rock music and call it death metal.
Satan did not turn you into a vampire so you can smash your neighbors face in with a crowbar.... hey nobody mentioned the band "CROWBAR" they are a real death metal band.
by UglyMutt November 9, 2006
When untalented musicians get together and make ridiculous music using drop C power chords and double bass drum rolls in attempt to show their hate for God, or the government or whatever they don't believe in.
by abbazabba January 1, 2005