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Contrary to about 400 of the definitions already listed here, Heavy Metal has nothing to do with Marilyn Manson. Heavy Metal is a genre of music inspired by American Blues music, in which people began to exploit the characteristics of the electric guitar to create louder, more discordant sounds. Heavy Metal is characterized by fast tempo, agressive rythm, and grandoise lyrics, often involving such themes as drug abuse, death, or political issues.
Megadeth, Metallica, Judas Priest = Metal
Marilyn manson, Linkin Park, rapcore music = Not Metal
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Prog metal for short. A sub genre of music that combines the almost jazz-like progression of progressive rock and the agression, volume, speed, and heaviness of metal. Usually features band members who are incredibly skilled at their instruments. Features rapid key changes, odd time signatures, and bombastic instrumental sections. It could be defined as "intelligent metal".
Rapid changes in key are a characteristic of progressive metal.
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A form of music that developed in the mid 1980's from thrash. Possessed recorded a song entitled "Death Metal" in 1984, which would appear on their debut album Seven Churches in 1985. Other bands such as Aggression, Death, Necrophagia, Nun Slaughter, Slaughter Lord and even Slayer contributed to the movement. What defined death metal was the fact that it was basically an exaggerated form of thrash--everything from the vocals (which transformed into a mix of growling, grunting and rasping) to the drumming was made harsher and heavier than before. The music itself became somewhat anti-rhythmic, and in some cases experimental (as seen with Darkthrone's Goatlord album, or the modern technicality of Necrophagist). The first bands to really modernize the movement included Autopsy, Cannibal Corpse, the virtually unkown Necrovore, Morbid Angel, Obituary, and Ripping Corpse, among others. Death metal could range from the blood and gore horror imagery of Cannibal Corpse, to the satanic overtones of Deicide, to the political statements carried by Dying Fetus. Some criticize death metal as they feel the musicians do nothing but randomly band their instruments. Nothing could be further from the truth--listen to Morbid Angel's album Covenant, for instance, or Cannibal Corpse's Gore Obsessed, to get a better perspective on the scene.
Older Sepultura is a mix of death metal and thrash metal, commonly referred to as death thrash.
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something so hardcore it can only be compared to metal (the music that is)
Dude did you hear about the guy who cut off his head with a chainsaw?
Yeah man, that's so metal.
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A person who puts other metalheads down for their taste in metal. These people will generally like and worship heavier, more extreme metal (call it the "trve metal") and any band they don't listen to is "gay" or "faggy". They love to make fun of bands like Slipknot and Metallica. Basically any band that gets popular among the metal community. Usually male, these homophobic scum congregate in the YouTube comment section and almost anywhere where metal is mentioned, these guys will appear. If they say they like a band you like, they will still try to put you down by saying their demo or debut record was the best and everything else was sell-out material. If you want to get into metal, you'll have to deal with these guys. They are the worst part of metal.
Cool Metalfan: I like Metallica, Cannibal Corpse, Slayer, Death, Slipknot, and Dream Theater. I also love classic rock and some pop music when it's good. I have a very eclectic taste in music. What do you listen to?
Metal Elitist: Take absolutely no offense from this, but your musical taste is trash and you should hang yourself. You should listen to trve metal like 69Goreface.
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thrash kicks nu metal's little boy scrotum into its mouth
dont forget Testament, Exodus, and Megadeth
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This is what some people whose first language isn't English call thrash metal. This is usually because the lack of 'th' in their first language makes them ignore the sound. This isn't the case for everyone though, as some idiots just can't read and end up calling it "trash metal".
This may also be used to refer to metal bands that are just trash in the sense that they should be thrown into the trash can.
Person A: "Megadeth is a good trash metal band."
Person B: "Well, I wouldn't really call them trash..."
Person A: "No, that's their genre. Trash Metal."
Person B: "Oh, you mean Thrash Metal."
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