Drummer's Syndrome

When drummers and wannabe drummers absolutely cannot stop tapping surfaces or playing drumkits in your practice space, despite the fact that the rest of the band needs to sort something out, you've got a case of Drummer's Syndrome on your hands.

"Goddammit, there he goes again with his Drummer's Syndrome! Stop fucking playing, we need to tune!"

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VSE

Vegan straight edge.

"Dude, wanna grab a beer and a burger?"
"No, thanks, I'm VSE."

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braveheart

Derived from the Mel Gibson movie with the same name, the Braveheart is when during a concert (usually of the harder type), the band tells the audience to split up into two sides, one dubbed the English, the other dubbed the Scottish. These sides will face each other, and on some type of cue, usually when the music or a breakdown starts, the two sides will run into each other, causing a giant moshpit to erupt all over the venue.

"That was an amazing Braveheart!" Lou Koller (Sick of It All), Stockholm, 3/4 2004

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mosh callout

A (usually short) vocal cue, most commonly used by hardcore bands to announce a breakdown, so the crowd knows when to start moshing.

"Go!"

"Bring it!"

"Don't be a pussy, get hit!"

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Ultimate Stranger

A variation on The Stranger. Involves, in addition to sitting on your hand until it becomes numb, also painting the nails on that hand. You then have a seat in a dark room or closet and use your free hand to shine a flashlight on the hand with the painted nails while you masturbate.

"My girlfriend left me, so I gave myself The Ultimate Stranger. I then proceeded to contemplate the emptiness of my existence and ended up contacting my lawyer and writing my will."

Three Word Syndrome

A phenomenon in the hardcore, metalcore and emo scenes where band names are dramatic constructions of three words or more. In some cases, the spaces between these words are removed for extra cool points.

There are lots of band names that suffer from Three Word Syndrome: Embrace the End, Killing the Dream, Bleed the Dream, Bleed the Sky, As Cities Burn, As Hope Dies, Beneath the Ashes, Boysetsfire, Skycamefalling, Prayer For Cleansing, November Coming Fire... Okay, I'm done with examples now.

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corpse kill

Killing an already dead man to make sure that he is in fact dead. For example, you might snap someone's spine, then just to make sure, you drop the person down an elevator shaft. A staple of Steven Seagal movies.

One of the many innovations of 80s Action is the corpse kill. ... In the case of Tommy Lee Jones, Seagal beats his man, slices him up with a knife, pushes his eyeball back into his brain (Jones is still alive at this point) then drives the knife into the top of Jones' skull, right up to the handle. The corpse then gets thrown headfirst through a monitor and electrocuted. You know those scenes where it looks like the bad guy is dead, but then he gets back up and musters one more cheap shot? You don't see any of those in Seagal flicks.

-Ruthlessreviews.com, on "Under Siege 2"

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