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black metal
Entertainment; Music
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 ...
gothic metal
Entertainment; Music
Gothic metal (or goth metal) is a sub-genre of heavy metal and gothic rock that combines the heaviness of doom metal with the dark atmospheres of gothic rock. The music of gothic metal is diverse as ...
extreme metal
Entertainment; 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 ...
blast beat
Entertainment; 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 ...
palm mute
Entertainment; Music
Palm muting is a guitar or bass guitar playing technique, where the palm of the picking hand is placed over the strings to acquire muted sound. While this technique is also used in other types of ...
headbanging
Entertainment; Music
Headbanging refers to violently shaking the head in the rhythm of the music, and it is most commonly associated with the rock, punk and heavy metal music genres.
moshing
Entertainment; Music
Moshing is a style of dance whose participants push or slam into each other. It is most associated with "aggressive" music genres, such as hardcore punk and numerous styles of metal. It primarily ...
