death metal

American  

noun

1. a type of speed metal music featuring violent or Satanic imagery.

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death metal British  

noun

1. 1. a type of heavy-metal music characterized by extreme speed and lyrics dealing with violence, satanism, etc

   2. ( as modifier )

      a death-metal band

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Etymology

Origin of death metal

First recorded in 1985–1990

Example Sentences

It feels like there’s a skyscraper pushing into my chest and my heart is going to burst out of me and seven death metal bands are screeching at the same time inside my head.

From Literature

The music itself is mostly fearsome golden oldies including the preternaturally ghastly “Take on Me,” but perhaps fearing massive customer defections or class-action suits the store doesn’t play Nordic death metal or anything by James Taylor.

From The Wall Street Journal

I have two sons who are into melodic death metal.

From Los Angeles Times

Bassist and founding member Alex Webster recently spoke with The Times from the road, just before the band’s stop in Oklahoma City, as part of its current U.S. tour with crossover thrashers Municipal Waste, guttural death metal band Fulci and up-and-coming hardcore grind band Full of Hell.

From Los Angeles Times

A death metal band doesn’t really have hits in the way other kinds of music might, because there’s no singles chart for death metal, for example.

From Los Angeles Times