In a world where the answer to the question “What do Led Zeppelin and Warrant have in common?” is “They both have songs where pastry stands in for the female genitalia,” the high-concept ambiguity of Annihilator’s “Knight Jumps Queen” is a welcome breath of fresh air.
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The Erotic Endgame: Annihilator’s “Knight Jumps Queen”
In a world where the answer to the question “What do Led Zeppelin and Warrant have in common?” is “They both have songs where pastry stands in for the female genitalia,” the high-concept ambiguity …
Slayer: Raining Blood, Missing the Point
According to Slayer songwriter Jeff Hanneman, “Raining Blood” (1986) is “about a guy who’s in purgatory ’cause he was cast out of heaven. He’s waiting for revenge and wants to fuck that place…
Diving deep into Cannibal Corpse’s “I Cum Blood”: where grotesque storytelling meets brutal misogyny. Not just gore for gore’s sake — it’s structured, disturbing, and unapologetically raw.
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I CUM BLOOD (1992) by Cannibal Corpse
Tomb of the Mutilated’s song titles have been hailed as “despicable”—high praise in death metal—but I’m not impressed. Do you really need “Post Mortal Ejaculation” when you already have “I Cum Bloo…
Blasphemy with Coordinates: On the Strange Clarity of Deicide’s ‘The Pentecostal’
“The Pentecostal” (2004) might be the Deicide song I’ve been waiting to hear since I first clocked Glen Benton’s act as occasionally more than just a Satanic shock-jock routine. While I can’t…
“Feasting on the Blood of the Insane” isn’t just gore for gore’s sake. Six Feet Under’s brutal anthem doubles as a character study of a killer spiraling into addiction and delusion. A look at death metal’s surprising capacity for nuance—buried beneath the blood and thunder.
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“Feasting on the Blood of the Insane”: A Closer Look at Six Feet Under’s Serial Killer Serenade
Six Feet Under is not the first band that would come to mind when discussing thinking man’s death metal. Nonetheless, “Feasting on the Blood of the Insane” (1999) is a bit sharper than your average…
How Not to Blaspheme: Deicide’s “Once Upon the Cross”
In Once Upon the Cross (1995), Glen Benton once again proves that you can’t blaspheme what you don’t understand. In trying to desecrate Christianity, he accidentally upholds it, demonstrating that …
Black Sabbath’s “Paranoid” isn’t about paranoia at all — it’s a raw portrait of anhedonia and depression. Dive into why this metal classic is really about numbness, not fear.
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Paranoid or Just Uncomfortably Numb?
Not only is the title never once uttered, but Black Sabbath’s “Paranoid” (1970) has as little to do with actual paranoia as Alanis Morissette’s “Ironic” does with irony. Despite its name, Paranoid …
Dio’s “Holy Diver” is all killer, no clarity — and maybe that’s the point. We dive into the tiger-striped metaphors and astral messianism of one of metal’s most enigmatic songs.
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A Diver in the Dark: Decoding the Myth and Mystery of Dio’s “Holy Diver”
When Clear Channel Communications circulated its infamous list of “lyrically questionable” songs in the immediate aftermath of the September 11 attacks, Dio’s “Holy Diver” found itself …
In “Taphephobia,” Sodom isn't afraid of death — they’re afraid of surviving. This is more than a war song. It’s about being spiritually buried alive in a world that rewards numbness and punishes dissent.
💀 Fear of burial becomes fear of consciousness.
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Sodom’s “Taphephobia” and the Horror of Survival
My first thought listening to Sodom’s “Taphephobia” (2025) was: You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means. The impression came mostly from the German band’s tenuous …
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