How to Use death metal in a Sentence

death metal

noun
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  • In lesser hands, this would have been a death metal dirge.
    — Josh Wigler, The Hollywood Reporter, 8 Mar. 2018
  • For starters, there’s a death metal remix of the speech that’s racked up almost 5 million view on YouTube — no joke.
    — Raisa Bruner, Time, 11 Oct. 2019
  • Don’t miss your chance to bow before the original death metal kings.
    — Brad Sanders, Chron, 21 Mar. 2023
  • There’s a death metal band called 200 Stab Wounds who sound like Cannibal Corpse, but their riffs are so sick.
    — Jonathan Cohen, SPIN, 14 Dec. 2022
  • One such community can be found in Texas, which might boast the strongest death metal scene in the world right now.
    — Brad Sanders, Chron, 6 Apr. 2023
  • Trevor Strnad, founding lead vocalist of the melodic death metal band the Black Dahlia Murder, has died at the age of 41.
    — Daniel Kreps, Rolling Stone, 11 May 2022
  • Some bats use the same vocal structures as death metal singers to make their unique vocalizations, a new study has found.
    — Zoe Sottile, CNN, 29 Nov. 2022
  • Many of her customers are singers of death metal, grindcore and other offshoots of heavy metal rock.
    — James R. Hagerty, WSJ, 18 May 2018
  • If a music nerd with a passion for experimental death metal can get a rise out of one of the biggest stars in the world, all is not lost.
    — John Semley, The New Republic, 18 Nov. 2022
  • Formed in the late Eighties, Entombed were at the forefront of a growing Scandinavian death metal scene.
    — Jon Blistein, Rolling Stone, 8 Mar. 2021
  • The venue’s roster of upcoming concerts includes a variety of hip-hop, folk-punk, death metal and thrash bands.
    — Anne Nickoloff, cleveland, 4 Feb. 2022
  • After all,the same settings wouldn’t really work for both death metal songs and podcasts about crafting.
    — Popular Science, 6 Oct. 2020
  • Not the coronavirus variant but the Belgian death metal band, who say that the only thing contagious about them is their music.
    — James Hookway, WSJ, 10 Dec. 2021
  • Hasib Neaz was waiting for death metal band Morbid Angel to take the stage at a concert in Illinois as howling winds slammed a fire door open and shut, again and again.
    — Jeff Kolkey, USA TODAY, 1 Apr. 2023
  • Now, a new version of the teen environmental activist's speech — set to death metal — has gone viral.
    — Elizabeth Chuck, NBC News, 30 Sep. 2019
  • The real payoff here is the songbook of variations on the theme — from easy listening to sensuous R&B to grinding death metal.
    — Michael Andor Brodeur, BostonGlobe.com, 5 July 2019
  • The band’s style celebrates the late-‘80s pivot point between thrash and death metal, perfected on early albums by Death.
    — Hank Shteamer, SPIN, 24 Jan. 2023
  • The Arizona death metal troupe Gatecreeper rocks online at 9 p.m. Tickets via gatecreeper.com.
    — Gary Graff, cleveland, 17 Feb. 2021
  • Listeners who can get caught up in the beautiful sadness of a ballad or the intense anger of death metal know music carries meaning.
    — Jonathon Keats, Discover Magazine, 30 June 2018
  • Not only did the band founded in 1984 by Max and Iggor Cavalera raise the profile of Brazil, where the brothers were born, but those albums continue to influence thrash and death metal.
    — Jessi Virtusio, Chicago Tribune, 19 May 2022
  • Stylistically, their records exist within the genre of death metal, where the riffs are as heavy as wet sand, and the music proceeds with the hellbent momentum of a horror-movie climax.
    — Sam Sodomsky, Pitchfork, 9 Nov. 2023
  • Items from Learn to Forget include trucker hats, some of which use old English and other fonts commonly found with death metal and hardcore band logos.
    — Charlie Vargas, Orange County Register, 15 Feb. 2024
  • Now, an Icelandic website design agency called Viska has created a web version of Gilfoyle’s death metal alert — which is just as startling as promised.
    — Shannon Liao, The Verge, 29 Apr. 2018
  • The Semantics of Music Listeners who can get caught up in the beautiful sadness of a ballad or the intense anger of death metal know music carries meaning.
    — Jonathon Keats, Discover Magazine, 15 June 2018
  • Over 10 episodes, the charm of each death metal song (Retsuko’s preferred genre) doesn’t fade even as the music becomes less of a coping mechanism and more of a reflection of her true personality.
    — Janelle Okwodu, Vogue, 1 May 2018
  • Traditionally, the Eurovision final is an eclectic mix of earnest Swedish pop stars, Polish milk maids and Finnish death metal bands.
    — Amy Thomson, Bloomberg.com, 24 Apr. 2020
  • In Cloudflare's early years, Lee Holloway had been the resident genius, the guy who could focus for hours, code pouring from his fingertips while death metal blasted in his headphones.
    — Sandra Upson, Wired, 15 Apr. 2020
  • Her new husband was a libertarian from Delaware who took her to death metal concerts.
    — Stephanie McCrummen, Washington Post, 29 Feb. 2020
  • Denver death metal group Blood Incantation have announced a new album.
    — Nina Corcoran, Pitchfork, 26 June 2024
  • There are also some nods to the group’s beginnings as a melodic death metal band and several nonsensical interludes.
    — Bram Teitelman, Billboard, 23 Jan. 2018

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