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

“You don’t want to rock down the highway to death metal at 90 decibels with a nervous dog in the car,” she says.

From The Wall Street Journal

“I sing hard and I sweat and bleed like I would with my band. I call it death acoustic. There’s death punk, there’s death metal, and there’s death acoustic, and that’s my jam.”

From Los Angeles Times

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