How to Use death metal in a Sentence

death metal

noun
  • Don’t miss your chance to bow before the original death metal kings.
    — Brad Sanders, Chron, 21 Mar. 2023
  • Everything but death metal and gangster rap.
    — Justin Fenner, Robb Report, 22 Feb. 2026
  • Many of her customers are singers of death metal, grindcore and other offshoots of heavy metal rock.
    — James R. Hagerty, WSJ, 18 May 2018
  • 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
  • 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
  • After all,the same settings wouldn’t really work for both death metal songs and podcasts about crafting.
    — Popular Science, 6 Oct. 2020
  • 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
  • Get ready for new music from Rochester, New York, death metal greats Undeath.
    — Matthew Strauss, Pitchfork, 31 July 2024
  • 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
  • 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 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
  • 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 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
  • Her new husband was a libertarian from Delaware who took her to death metal concerts.
    — Stephanie McCrummen, Washington Post, 29 Feb. 2020
  • Nor must the creators of country or death metal music justify their songs to a judge or jury as fiction — no matter how violent their lyrics may be.
    — Priya Chaudhry, Billboard, 1 July 2024
  • Denver death metal group Blood Incantation have announced a new album.
    — Nina Corcoran, Pitchfork, 26 June 2024
  • 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
  • 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
  • At the Gates pioneered the melodic death metal sub-genre that became so widespread throughout the 1990s.
    — Quentin Thane Singer, Forbes.com, 16 Sep. 2025
  • 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 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
  • Against all odds, their eponymous debut — a nine-man grumble of thrash and death metal — found mainstream success, becoming the fastest-selling album in the genre’s history.
    — Emma Madden, Vulture, 31 Oct. 2024
  • 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
  • Montana attained some fame in the early- to mid-1980s as a guitarist for the pioneering death metal band Possessed.
    — Robert Salonga, Mercury News, 15 Aug. 2025
  • 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
  • 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
  • These 10 records, spanning death metal, Americana, dance, rap, and more, don’t just feature some of the most striking and virtuosic songwriting of the year.
    — Stephen Kearse, TIME, 8 Dec. 2024
  • 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
  • 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
  • Deicide has been active since the late ‘80s, practicing a special strain of Floridian norm-skewing death metal.
    — Christopher Arnott, Hartford Courant, 25 Aug. 2022

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