What We Talk About When We Talk About Metal

MOST FREQUENTLY APPEARING WORDS IN THE TITLES OF METAL SONGS I HAVE IN MY MP3 LIBRARY, PRIMARY PHASE

Death; black; blood; demon; fire; hell; spell.

MOST FREQUENTLY APPEARING WORDS IN THE TITLES OF METAL SONGS I HAVE IN MY MP3 LIBRARY, SECONDARY PHASE

Burning, cold; darkness; dead; earth; end; eternal; fires; flesh; forest; forgotten; fortress; ghosts; great; life; light; lost; mirrors; moon; mountain; power; shadow; stars; voice; war; will.

MOST FREQUENTLY APPEARING WORDS IN THE TITLES OF METAL SONGS I HAVE IN MY MP3 LIBRARY, TERTIARY PHASE

Ashes; beyond; bleed; bloodstained; born; bow; chaos; code; deep; destroyer; destruction; dusk; eyes; fall; funeral; gates; god; hate; hope; house; invoke; kingdom; last; lord; loss; man; mass; midwinter; misery’ night; north; pagan; prison; red; revenge; ritual; ruined; sacred; Satan; shrouded; snow; spirit; storms; suicide; throne; unleash; winds; winter; worship.

WORDS APPEARING LESS FREQUENTLY IN THE TITLES OF METAL SONGS I HAVE IN MY MP3 LIBRARY, BUT WHICH MANAGE TO CONVEY A CERTAIN METAL JE NE SAIS QUOI AND SHOULD BE PART OF THE STOCK WORDBOOK OF ANY SELF-RESPECTING DUNGEON SYNTH LYRICIST OR GAME-MASTER

Accursed; acolytes; aggressive; apocalyptic; arcane; ascendant; bereft; betrayal; blister; brackish; burnt; cannibal; caustic; chambers; changeling; collapse; conjuration; continuum; convergence; corpse; crucifixion; curdled; cyclic; deathless; desolation; despondency; devoured; disharmonic; drowned; duality; eventide; eyeless; feeble; frightful; genocide; Godless; graves; grimace; havoc; heretic; Hitler; hordes; ice; infernal; infinite; invisible; journey; lair; legions; maggots; malediction; malice; megalith; mesmerize; misanthropic; nameless; nightfall; nocturnal; parasitic; perdition; punishment; reckoning; sacrifice; sickness; slave; solitude;  stench; teratology; tower; toxicity; troll; unearthly; vampire; vitriol; warrior; wizard; wounded.

I HAVE NO EXPLANATION

Bunny; shimmy; tit.