downpicked

Definitions

Played using downpicking.

Examples

“Grinding speed⟳ metal rampages like⟳ "Disasterpiece" and "New Abortion," and the hyperspeed, furiously downpicked punk-style riffing of "Everything Ends" are no doubt⟳ harder, faster and, at least lyrically, sicker.”

“The Young Marble Giants song "Final Day" could serve⟳ as Minor Angels's soundtrack: a single sci-fi theremin note⟳ hovers over a quavering organ, muted, downpicked guitar, and a plain but lovely female voice that sings about the final day, the world lighting up for the last⟳ time only to fall⟳ into endless night "for the people who never had a say⟳."”

“There's awesome speed⟳, the revolutionary (for the time) blending of Brit-metal bombast— think⟳ Priest, Maiden, and especially Diamond Head—with the street-level aggression of hardcore punk, and the fierce technical edge of the music, best exemplified by Hetfield's aggressively downpicked, heavily palm-muted rhythm-guitar attack.”

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