heavy metal music

1. 1.

   loud and harsh sounding rock music with a strong beat; lyrics usually involve violent or fantastic imagery

   Synonymsheavy metal

   Broaderrock 'n' roll

Questions about heavy metal music

What does heavy metal music mean?

heavy metal music means "loud and harsh sounding rock music with a strong beat; lyrics usually involve violent or fantastic imagery".

What is another word for heavy metal music?

Close synonyms include heavy metal. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is heavy metal music a common word?

heavy metal music is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.