Heavy metal emoji keyboard lets you add horns, hair and blood to your messages

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In this world, there is no shortage of cute emoji. But what if your life is darkness, your hair falls long and your playlist consists of Meshuggah, Triptykon and Venom? Where do you find tiny pictures to express your grief, anger, and...well, that's all the emotions a true metalhead can have, but I digress: Where does a true metal fan find his or her emoji?

Well, we've got that problem solved for you. KeyLuminati's Heavy Metal Emoji Keyboard, recently released on the Apple App Store, has every metal emoji imaginable. Long hair? Check. Braided viking beard? Check. Skulls, corpsepaint, horns, devils, bat wings, snake fangs, axes, whisky, guitars, drums, razors, bloodstains, crosses, graves, runes? It's all there. 

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Image: Heavy Metal Emoji Keyboard, Stan Schroeder

Now, the bad news is that the keyboard is not free - it costs $1.99 in the U.S. App Store. And it's not exactly seamless: After you install it, you have to tap on an emoji, which copies it into the clipboard; you can then paste it into whichever app you're using (for some reason, Facebook did not accept these emoji; some other apps, such as Notes, did). 

But if you're willing to live with those drawbacks, and are in dire need of some seriously heavy emoji, you'll tough it out. Like a true metalhead would. 

The Heavy Metal Emoji Keyboard is available here.