heavy metal

Etymology
The origin of the music genre sense is often disputed; it was used by in Soft Machine and Nova Express and various music critics claim to have coined it:,  and.

Noun

 * 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. (There are many different definitions of what counts as a heavy metal; see  for a discussion.)
 * 2)  A genre descended from rock music, characterized by massive sound, highly amplified distortion, and overall loudness, often with extended guitar solos, and lyrics that involve aggressive or fantastic imagery.
 * 3)  guns or shot of large size.
 * 4)  Great influence or power.

Translations

 * Catalan: metall pesant
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin:
 * Danish: tungmetal
 * Esperanto: pezmetalo
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * Galician: metal pesado
 * German:
 * Greenlandic: aatsitassaq oqimaatsoq
 * Hungarian:
 * Italian:
 * Japanese: 重金属
 * Khmer: លោហធាតុធ្ងន់
 * Korean:
 * Malay: logam berat
 * Norwegian:
 * Bokmål: tungmetall
 * Nynorsk: tungmetall
 * Portuguese: metal pesado
 * Romanian: metal greu
 * Russian: тяжёлый мета́лл
 * Scots: hivy metal, heivy metal
 * Spanish: metal pesado
 * Swedish:
 * Thai:
 * Turkish:


 * Arabic: مُوسِيقَى الْمِيتَال, هيفي ميتال
 * Belarusian: хэ́ві-мэ́тал
 * Bulgarian: хе́ви ме́тъл
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin: 重金屬音樂
 * Dutch:
 * Esperanto: metalroko
 * Finnish: ,
 * French:
 * Galician: ,
 * Georgian: მძიმე მეტალი
 * German: ,
 * Hebrew: הבי מטאל
 * Hungarian:
 * Italian:
 * Japanese: ヘヴィメタル, ヘビーメタル, ヘビメタ, メタル
 * Korean: 헤비 메탈
 * Marathi: हेव्ही मेटल
 * Persian:
 * Iranian Persian: هِوی مِتال
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese: ,
 * Russian: ,
 * Scots: heavy metal, hivy metal, heivy metal
 * Spanish: rock pesado, heavy metal
 * Swedish: ,
 * Thai: เฮฟวีเมทัล
 * Ukrainian: хе́ві-ме́тал

Etymology
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Noun

 * 1)  heavy metal

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Noun

 * 1)   genre of rock music

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 * 1)  genre of music

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