The Most Disgusting Metal Lyrics of All Time

Thrash bands resembling Slayer, Exodus and Blood Feast had some fairly sick lyrics that alarmed some of the mainstream. But as quickly as Death emerged in 1984 with songs like “Corpse Grinder “and “Evil Dead,” and Possessed surfaced the following 12 months with “Swing of the Axe,” they instantly upstaged even essentially the most aggressive thrash. Death steel was the brand new excessive.

Soon, a wave of extra contentious dying steel bands together with Repulsion, Impetigo, Autopsy, Obituary, Cannibal Corpse, Carcass and Pungent Stench have been upping the ante with sooner, extra unrestrained music and lyrics rooted in dying, illness, atrocity and gore. Death steel was in full swing. Several years later, a brand new technology of grindcore and brutal dying steel bands exited the abattoir with new batches of excessive songs about carnage, serial killers and different atrocities.

The second technology included bands resembling Impaled, Mortician, Exhumed, Cattle Decapitation and Regurgitate. Along with the daybreak of deathcore, goregrind bands began popping up like zombies, with only one objective: to create essentially the most twisted, insane and disgusting excessive steel by pushing grindcore to new heights. Many of the demented lyricists of bands resembling Jig Ai, Cephalotripsy, Exulcerate and Torsofuck out-nauseate their predecessors by writing about genital mutilation, defecation, necrophilia… and worse. In many instances, wicked lyrics overshadow restricted musicality.

What’s type of humorous about rather a lot of dying steel from the early days till now’s that, except for the often grisly cowl artwork and music titles, the music doesn’t appear to be it was written by sociopaths who bury decaying our bodies below their again porches.

Many of the artists appear to be vegan or vegetarian and a shocking proportion help animal rights. More absurdly, with no lyric sheet (or web sites resembling Genius Lyrics), it’s just about unimaginable to inform what the vocalists are singing about. Even choruses are hardly ever enunciated with any kind of readability. It’s all about how harsh the growls, gurgles, howls, grunts, pig squeals and banshee shrieks come throughout to the listener.

For years, goregrind has been a distinct segment subgenre of dying steel. Just as not each thrash fan loves dying steel and never each dying steel follower digs black steel, for some, goregrind is the road of extremity to not be crossed.

Everyone has their limits.

Those who crave such graphic atrocities are maybe greatest in comparison with film followers who search out essentially the most grotesque, nausea-inducing torture porn movies over suspenseful, narrative-driven horror motion pictures that could be gory, however solely to visually illustrate a second within the storyline. Torture porn has no plot (therefore the questionable comparability to porn; few of these movies characteristic precise intercourse scenes). But those that favor Lucio Fulci over Dario Argento or the Guinea Pig and August Underground collection above Halloween, Hellraiser or Nightmare on Elm Street can gleefully dive in and smear your fingers via the blood, viscera and shit that inhabit goregrind and revel within the absolute depravity of their artistry.

Warning: goregrind is aware of no limits and the lyrics are crammed with depictions of brutal misogyny, torture and horrific homicide and infestations many discover offensive and repellant. Those with weak stomachs ought to steer clear of the horrors inside.

To systematically analyze the ugliness, decay and mutilation addressed in gore steel appears counterintuitive to the subversion and depravity that engendered it. In some methods, it’s absurd to try to categorize and reward some of the very best (or is it worst) vile and disgusting dying steel and goregrind songs obtainable for mass consumption and regurgitation. But what’s excessive steel journalism if it doesn’t study and dissect essentially the most putrid and puerile songs ever to corrode the style’s panorama?

So, in good religion and with tongue firmly embedded in cheek (in an effort to search out some humor within the black abscess), Loudwire takes three generations of gorecore and places them in a hoop to the dying: The founders of splatter steel tackle the band’s that surrounded the surgical desk within the late ‘80s and early ‘90s and the newer arrivals that seek to make the abhorrent even more extreme.

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Songs are judged for musical quality and lyrical content in the following categories: Most Graphic, Most Violent, Most Anatomically Oriented, Most Perverted, Most Sexually Sadistic, Best Song Based on Gore Movie, Most Creative Kill and Best Death by Hardware Store Implement. And now, onto the brutality!

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Loudwire contributor Jon Wiederhorn is the co-author of Louder Than Hell: The Definitive Oral History of Metal, as well as the co-author of Scott Ian’s autobiography, I’m the Man: The Story of That Guy From Anthrax, and Al Jourgensen’s autobiography, Ministry: The Lost Gospels According to Al Jourgensen and the Agnostic Front e-book My Riot! Grit, Guts and Glory.