The heavy metal-ness of language

To determine which words are the most “metal”, this data scientist wrote a program to sift through more than 22,000 albums to find the words most frequently used in heavy metal songs compared to their use in standard English. “Burn” is the most metal word, followed by “cries”, “veins”, “eternity”, “breathe”, and “beast”. The least metal words?

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If you were to run an analysis on what I’ve written at kottke.org, I doubt it would be particularly metal. \m/

• langauge
• music