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Examples
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Saviours indulge in the requisite sludgy down-tuning, they've got none of the genre's luxuriant dilated-pupil languor-the heart inside their metal beats fast.
Chicago Reader 2010
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The direction of these specifications will allow team participation in the series in a cost-effective manner while allowing the engine manufacturers flexibility in possibly up-tuning and / or down-tuning the engine for use in other forms of motorsports.
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Way back before death metal was even called, well, death metal, teenagers in Tampa, Fla., were down-tuning guitars, stripping away melodies and fashioning heavy rhythms to create a new and fetid strain of extreme rock that had less in common with Black Sabbath and more to do with the sound of giant prehistoric alligators crashing into a boiling-hot swamp.
Tucson Weekly 2009
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