Explaining the phrase "metal as hell" and why everyone is using it all of a sudden
It’s nearly impossible to keep up with modern slang. Every week there’s a new pop culture referenceor turn ofphrase that’s cool for a time before gettingfiled away with the likes of “see you on the flip side” and “rotflol.”
The latest: “Metal as hell.”
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According to Urban Dictionary, the phraseis akin to saying that something is so metal, implying that it’s“so hardcore that it can only be compared to metal (the music that is.)”
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Metal music actually comesfrom Birmingham, one of the world’s first industrialized cities. It’s called “metal” music because the majority of Birmingham’s population worked in manufacturing factories using metal, including music pioneers like Ozzy Osbourne who tested horns in a car plant prior to becoming famous with his band Black Sabbath.
In a recent Buzzfeed article, they usethe saying to describe a news story from Norway, where a thirteen year old boy saved himself from a wolf attack by scaring away the animals when he played heavy metal music from his cell phone.You might call that “meta as hell.”
If you’d call something hardcore in 2008, you’d probably call it “metal as hell” now.
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