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Forget Kim Kardashian Emojis, The Heavy Metal Emojis Are Here

Horns up emoji guitar emoji whisky bottle emoji = Saturday night

Whether you want to admit it or not, emojis have become a crucial part of communicating over text message. What's a message of excitement without the confetti emoji? What's a diss on someone without the eyeroll emoji? Can you really ask someone out to pizza without the pizza emoji?

With that, now there's a third-party emoji keyboard that taps into the few of us who just aren't satisfied with the the G-rated emojis that we've currently got access to. Enter the black broken heart emoji, horns up emoji (complete with spiked leather cuff), gravestone emoji, guitar emoji, the joint emoji, dudes with huge beards and bald head emoji and even a cucumber in tin foil, courtesy of our friends in Spinal Tap. Hell. Yes.

 
 

It's called the Heavy Metal Emoji Keyboard and is currently only available on iOS, with Android soon to follow. The cheeky keyboard has already surpassed the Justin Bieber emoji keyboard (Justmoji), the Charlie Sheen emoji keyboard (Sheenoji) and Steph Curry emoji keyboard (StephMoji) with Kim Kardashian's almighty Kimoji at #1 left to conquer.

The Heavy Metal Emoji Keyboard is sitting pretty at #2 on the App Store Entertainment chart at the moment, so it won't be long before Kim's forced to put her horns up too.

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