spacecore

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noun

Heavy metal or rock music inspired by outer space.

Scrabble 15

Meanings

nounspacecore (uncountable)
  1. rareuncountableentertainmentHeavy metal or rock music inspired by outer space.

    DUNKELHEIT - more than meets the third eye 7inch ¶ Industrial spacecore for the wasted generation! Four songs of sonic deconstruction!

    1997 April, “suggestion records” (advertisement), in D.L.K.: The Hell Key, number 0011 [issue #3], Grottaglie, page 31
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    Hyper grind/jazz spacecore with clarinet & barking vocals. Comes w/lyrics, photos, and full colour cover!!! All for only $4.00 ppd. worldwide. Trades are welcome.

    1994, “Grind Spacecore” (advertisement), in Chaotic Noise, number 3, Roanoke, Va., [https://archive.org/details/chaotic_noise_3/page/n49/mode/2up?q=spacecore page [50]]

    It was Wednesday, the Night After. At ZuZu in Central Square, Stephen Brodsky — whose spacecore, prog-metal band Cave In had just finished a wild tour with their good friends Converge — did his best to distract us, and himself, with his solo-acoustic “Beatles ripoffs” (his description, not mine).

    2004 November 12, Will Spitz, “The days after”, Out, in The Boston Phoenix, volume 33, number 44, Boston, Mass.: The Phoenix Media/Communications Group, Arts, page 21

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