heavy metal

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Noun

heavy metal (uncountable)

1. Any metal that has a specific gravity greater than about 5, especially one, such as lead, that is poisonous and may be a hazard in the environment.
2. (music) A genre descended from rock music, characterized by massive sound, highly amplified distortion, and overall loudness, often with extended guitar solos, complex song structures, fast emphatic beats, and lyrics that involve violent or fantastic imagery.

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Translations

type of metal

• Catalan: metall pesant (ca) m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 重金屬 (cmn), 重金属 (cmn) (zhòngjīnshǔ)

• Danish: tungmetal (da) n
• Esperanto: pezmetalo (eo)
• Finnish: raskasmetalli (fi)
• French: métal lourd (fr) m
• German: Schwermetall (de) n
• Hungarian: nehézfém (hu)
• Japanese: 重金属 (ja) (じゅうきんぞく, jūkinzoku)

• Korean: 중금속 (ko) (jung-geumsok) (重金屬 (ko))
• Malay: logam berat (ms)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: tungmetall (no) n

  Nynorsk: tungmetall (nn) n

• Portuguese: metal pesado (pt) m
• Russian: тяжёлый металл (ru) (tjažólyj metáll) m
• Spanish: metal pesado (es) m
• Swedish: tungmetall (sv) c

type of music

• Arabic: موسيقى الميتال (ar) (mūsīqā al-mitāl) f
• Bulgarian: хеви метъл (bg) (hévi métǎl) m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 重金屬音樂 (cmn), 重金属音乐 (cmn) (zhòngjīnshǔ yīnyuè)

• Dutch: metal (nl), heavy metal (nl)
• Esperanto: metalroko (eo)
• Finnish: heavy metal (fi), hevi (fi)
• French: heavy metal (fr) m
• German: Heavy Metal (de) m, Metal (de) m

• Italian: heavy metal (it) m
• Japanese: ヘヴィメタル (ja) (hevimetaru), ヘビーメタル (ja) (hebīmetaru)
• Korean: 헤비 메탈 (ko) (hebi metal)
• Marathi: हेव्ही मेटल (mr) (hevhi meṭal) n
• Polish: heavy metal (pl) m
• Portuguese: heavy metal (pt) m, metal (pt) m, rock pauleira (pt) m
• Russian: хеви-метал (ru) (xɛ́vi-mɛ́tal) m, (музыка) металл (ru) (metáll) m
• Spanish: rock pesado (es) m

See also

• acid rock
• heavy metal umlaut

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Etymology

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Noun

heavy metal m (invariable)

1. (music) heavy metal

Synonyms

• metal

Related terms

• metallaro