A data scientist has crunched the numbers and found the most (and least) heavy metal words in the English language.

Yes, this is apparently a study now…

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Posted on Degenerate State, the scientist (named Iain) went onto “the largest metal lyrics archive on the web,” otherwise known as DarkLyrics.com, and trawled through the database of 222,623 songs by 7,634 bands.

After this, Iain compared the data with the Brown Corpus – a 50+ year old readable database of over one million English words filed by topical relevance – and came out with a top 20 most and least metal words.

Most Metal Words

1. Burn
2. Cries
3. Veins
4. Eternity
5. Breathe
6. Beast
7. Gonna
8. Demons
9. Ashes
10. Soul
11. Sorrow
12. Sword
13. Goodbye
14. Dreams
15. Gods
16. Pray
17. Reign
18. Tear
19. Flames
20. Scream

Least Metal Words

1. Particularly
2. Indicated
3. Secretary
4. Committee
5. University
6. Relatively
7. Noted
8. Approximately
9. Chairman
10. Employees
11. Attorney
12. Membership
13. Administrative
14. Considerable
15. Academic
16. Literary
17. Agencies
18. Measurements
19. Fiscal
20. Residential

Put simply, if you want to sound metal – talk about hell and steer clear of university or employment-related banter. However, mixing them together does paint some interesting pictures.

Watch as the demons burn to ashes, and employees ask your secretary for a particularly indicated beast.