depressive black metal
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.28 in modern English
36
Scrabble Score
20
Letters
5
Syllables
14
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
A subgenre of black metal that focuses on slow, repetitive instrumentation and depressive or suicidal lyrics and imagery.
Uncountable
Example Sentences
- "The first MCD was sometimes really depressive, and the new full-length CD (out March/May 2001) will be definitively pure Depressive Black Metal, something in between Abyssic Hate, old Katatonia, old Burzum, Dolorian."
- "Dunkel - Evighed (depressive black metal in the Burzum vein - rare tape!) $6"
- "- FORGOTTEN TOMB "Songs to Leave" CD (great depressive black metal) 15$"
- "For in spite of the opposition of authentic inner “strength” to corrupt, worldly “weakness” that often characterises depressive black metal artists’ statements of intent, it is not inner resolve that protects the listener from despair but a failure of rational consisency."
- "Our recent discovery of a blog dedicated to “depressive black metal” We guess the music sounds neat."
- "Active since 1997, Sin Nanna currently resides in Hobart, Tasmania, where he records and releases LPs, CDs, and DVDs to an avid global fan base of devotees of “depressive black metal,” a style of extreme heavy metal centered upon lyrical themes of ennui, abjection, and mourning."