face-melter

plural face-melters

1. slangentertainmentParticularly in heavy metal music, a musical passage or sung note that is particularly intense.

   Can You Rock, an Indy-based live karaoke band, gives those face-melters some actual context.

   2009, Indianapolis Monthly, volume 32, numbers 10-14, page 10

   3 more examples

   And then they launch into a face-melter by way of acoustics, playing so hard that one expects Thile's fingers either to spontaneously combust or at least start spurting blood.

   2005, No Depression, numbers 55-60, page 97

   Whenever it is uttered by a character on the show, the first person in the room to dash off a searing face-melter of a musical run wins the round.

   2010, Greg Horne, The Couch Potato Guitar Workout, page 47

   “Wee-weewee [Psycho music].” “Marvin Glasscock! Dude comes in with the total facemelter!!!”

   2013, William Landay, Defending Jacob: A Novel, page 209