headbanger

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This 1989 headbanger is available starting October 14th for Xbox 360, and October 16th for PlayStation 3.

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  1. noun Slang A fan of heavy metal music: "an arena full of headbangers holding their lighters aloft” (Christopher John Farley).

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  • And he has the least hair of any headbanger I know. —  Foma*
  • Jeff Beck certainly deserved getting in (long before now), and while I'm not a headbanger I'll give Metallica their props too. —  Top Stories - Google News
  • Some fans declared "The Osbournes" a masterpiece of its kind _ an inverted "Father Knows Best" with father as a former headbanger who has an uneven grasp of reality due to an oceanic ingestion of drugs in his past. —  Catholic Online > Daily Readings
  • The album contains flashbacks to every phase of the band so far, from the rave stabs and helium skat of the fantastic Take Me To The Hospital and the old skool breaks and speaker destroying bassline of Warriors Dance to the rock heavy riffs of Colours and Keith Flint's trademark sneering on headbanger Run With The Wolves. —  musicOMH MT | staff | musicOMH
  • I mean the first music that was really being played again live was top 40 and headbanger kind of stuff, hip-hop. —  Vail Daily - Top Stories
 

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