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…

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