Science Has Determined the Most ‘Metal’ Word In The English Language

Degenerate State, a data-science blogger, has researched 222,623 songs from 7,364 rock and metal bands on over 22,314 albums and found the most ‘metal’ word in the English language.

By combining word frequency from website Dark Lyrics, and cross referencing with Brown Corpus, the 1961 general corpora of one million words in the English language, Degenerate State was able to find the “metalness” of each word.

After all the data was crunched, the study found that the most ‘metal’ word used in the English language. is ‘burn’.

Check out the full list of the most “metal” words below and if you’re curious about the “least metal” words, some of the top 20 include, ‘particularly’, ’employees’, ‘residential’, and ‘university’.

The top 20 most ‘metal’ words in the English language are:

1. Burn
2. Cries
3. Veins
4. Eternity
5. Breathe
6. Beast
7. Gonna
8. Demons
9. Ashes
10. Soul
11. Sorrow
12. Sword
13. Goodbye
14. Dreams
15. Gods
16. Pray
17. Reign
18. Tear
19. Flames
20. Scream

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