Home > Blossary: metal music
Brief description of the most popular sub-genres of metal music, and some common terms related to these types of music.

Category: Entertainment

20 Terms

Created by: a.protic

Number of Blossarys: 5

My Terms
Collected Terms

Black metal is a sub-genre of metal music characterized by fast tempos, screaming vocals and highly distorted guitar sound. Lyrically, black metal songs mostly express anti-Christian or nihilistic ...

Domain: Entertainment; Category: Music

Blast beats refer to drum playing technique mostly associated with extreme metal, which generally comprises of a repeated, sixteenth-note figure played at a very fast tempo, and divided uniformly ...

Domain: Entertainment; Category: Music

Corpse paint is a style of black-and-white makeup, used mainly by black metal bands during live concerts and photo shoots. The makeup is used to make the musicians appear inhuman, corpse-like, or ...

Domain: Entertainment; Category: Music

Crowd surfing refers to an activity that usually happens on rock or metal concerts. In crowd surfing, one person jumps from the stage into the audience, where several other people catch the person ...

Domain: Entertainment; Category: Music

Death metal is a sub-genre of metal music that evolved in mid 1980's, as a blend of thrash and early black metal. It is characterized by heavily distorted guitars, growling vocals and fast drumming. ...

Domain: Entertainment; Category: Music

Doom metal is a sub-genre of metal music characterized by comparatively slower tempos and heavier sound than other metal genres. Both the music and the lyrics intend to evoke a feeling of sadness and ...

Domain: Entertainment; Category: Music

Extreme metal is a loosely defined umbrella term for a number of related metal music sub-genres that have developed since the early 1980s. The term usually refers to genres with harsher and more ...

Domain: Entertainment; Category: Music

Member comments


( You can type up to 200 characters )

Post  
My other Blossarys

Brief descriptions of the most widely used ...

Category: History

By: a.protic

The glossary contains brief descriptions of most ...

Category: Entertainment

By: a.protic