Is Cannibal Corpse’s “Decency Defied” more than gore for gore’s sake? In a track that singles out tattooed skin for a serial killer’s collection, Jack Owen flips the script on death metal tropes—and takes a brutal jab at moral hypocrisy. Sometimes the real horror is the authoritarian hiding behind “decency.”
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Decency Defied: Cannibal Corpse, Tattoos, and Moral Hypocrisy
“Decency Defied” (2004) sounds almost like a stock phrase for a Cannibal Corpse song title. After all, isn’t the band’s entire reason for existing the defiance of decency? This track from The Wretc…
What happens when a Moldovan death metal band trades riffs for “manifestation” mantras? Infected Rain’s “Lighthouse” blurs the line between headbanging and head-in-the-clouds pseudoscience. Even metalheads should know the difference.
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The Law of Attraction Is Not Metal: Infected Rain’s “Lighthouse” and the Pseudoscience Problem
You’d expect a melodic death metal band from a landlocked Eastern European country in the Balkans to be all gloomy and doomy, but Infected Rain’s “Lighthouse” (2024) is, counterintuitively, all abo…
What if “heaven” isn’t a promise — but a lie?
While Bryan Adams and Warrant sang about heaven as romantic bliss, Lacuna Coil’s “Heaven’s a Lie” shatters the illusion. Instead of clinging to love’s false promises, Cristina Scabbia tears them down.
Pop, glam, and gothic metal all chase heaven — but Lacuna Coil dares to call it what it is: a trap.
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“Your Heaven’s a Lie”: Lacuna Coil’s Dark Reply to the Love Ballads of the ‘80s
Given Lacuna Coil’s gothic metal background, it’s tempting to take it as read that “Heaven’s a Lie” (2002) is an anti-religious, perhaps even blasphemous anthem. The song’s title seems tailor-made …
What happens when the monsters of war are rebranded and sold back to the world as progress? In Dora, Heaven Shall Burn aim their fire at Krupp’s infamous railway gun—and the corporate resurrection of Germany’s wartime industry. A brutal history lesson in metal.
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Gods of Iron: Militarism, Megalomania, and Heaven Shall Burn’s “Dora”
Heaven Shall Burn’s “Dora” is not just an articulate companion piece to Destruction’s sometimes unintelligible but brutally effective “Dealer of Death” — it’s also a vast improvement over HSB’s own…
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