Guitarist Bill Steer then explains the musical characteristics of death metal:

These songs, composed from 1920 to the mid-1970s, have certain identifying musical characteristics:

The completed symphony is remarkable in the way it anticipates some of Mahler's musical characteristics.

Instead, each 20-second promotional video uses music selected from a handful of themes, which have some unifying musical characteristics.

Drum and bass shares many musical characteristics with hip-hop, though it is nowadays mostly stripped of lyrics.

One 1965 concert that Raymond played exemplified many of his defining musical characteristics.

Anancy stories and certain musical characteristics originated in West Africa.

"All Time Low" is upbeat with prominent dance-pop musical characteristics.

There was little to no trace of African-American musical characteristics present in their recordings.

Every country has its own way of performing the traditional dances which go hand in hand with certain musical characteristics.