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I find these almost laughably stupid. An eight year old boy might find them neat because they’re gross, but surely this is the lowest form of use the English (or any) language can see?
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Who are the lyrics for and what is expected of the audience? Are they purely artistic or do fans usually read the lyrics at some point and appreciate them and do they ever understand them in the song?
Amon Amarth encouraged fans at a festival to sing along even if they don't know the lyrics: "It's death metal, no one would tell the difference!" But by the way their lyrics are in plain English and make as much sense as you can reasonably expect from a rock band, and vocal style is on the more comprehensible end of death metal spectrum.
THE INSPIRATION PENETRATES MY CRANIUM IT BIDS ME UTTER INFERNAL VERBIAGE IN CONTEMPLATION OF COMPILATION https://codewithrockstar.com/
>THE INSPIRATION PENETRATES MY CRANIUM rather: FEROCIOUS PENETRATION OF MY VULNERABLE CRANIUM BY THORNS OF INSPIRATION WICKED MIND'S UNSTABLE BLEH!
The Black Dahlia Murder had one of the greatest Death Metal Englishists of all time: In that very moment which life doth fade away / Ejected from my human shell exempt from time or space / Floating absorbing omniscient in display / A grandiose presentation unravels before me Not in chronology but so wildly all at once / An open dioramic rendition of events / Some horrible integral just the same a / Ll pieces are key…
I got to see them on the last tour with Trevor. He was as much a musician as a fan, and really loved meeting and hanging out with fans. He understood the place he held just like the bands that came before him that he idolized.
Track 1, "Inpropagation" : atrabilious, crevet, ebullition, beatrific, exequiet, coronach, humous, fecundate, defalcating, lacrimation
Track 2, "Corporal Jigsaw Quandary" (see [2] for YT video of song) : evulsed, deviscerated, chondrin, decollate, quiescent, detrital, sequacious, commensated, convented, uliginous
Track 4, "Pedigree Butchery" : spumous, crubescent, martilinear, desparental, primparal, sporulate, chimerical, rheological, fluxing, "illegitimeat", contumely, ebullient, despumation, desipient
Back then it was common belief that the band members were medical students, and that the terminology in their lyrics came from their studies, but this ultimately turned out to be a myth.
[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Necroticism_%E2%80%93_Descanti...
[1] http://www.darklyrics.com/lyrics/carcass/necroticismdescanti...
I find these almost laughably stupid. An eight year old boy might find them neat because they’re gross, but surely this is the lowest form of use the English (or any) language can see?
Until you realize that entertainment is subjective, most are tongue in cheek, or are presented in the same way one presents a horror movie. From your comment, I don't think it would be helpful for me to point you to bands that are death metal and also have deep, meaningful lyrics, but they exist.
This article was written by my good friend, bandmate, and former co-worker Doug Moore! Doug is best known as the vocalist for extreme death metal noise maniacs Pyrrhon. https://pyrrhonband.bandcamp.com/album/abscess-time He is also the vocalist for the death metal band Glorious Depravity, in which I drum. This makes best use of his DME skills. https://gloriousdepravity.bandcamp.com/album/ageless-violenc... . Look at…
I'm a bit confused about most death metal, are they trying to appear (as the cockney's say) "hard men" in the way that gangsta rappers are trying to portray street-level gangs?
Some really tried hard, with actual murder, arson of 1000 yo church in Norway and rehearsing ( not live show) surrounded by sheep heads on spikes while throwing up because of the smell.
Here are some very earnest album covers lol:
https://www.decibelmagazine.com/2017/06/13/the-worst-black-m...
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Death metal is indeed very silly. What I'm not sure of is whether its fans don't realise it's silly, embrace the silliness, or have simply moved beyond such pathetic human dichotomies as serious and silly.
A fantastic example of a man / band that is embracing the silliness is Rainbowdragoneyes. He mixes death metal with chiptune and trash pop voice modulators but still produces very intricate and well designed albums, that tell engaging stories, like this one: https://rainbowdragoneyes.bandcamp.com/album/the-secret-mirr...
The 1991 metal album "Necroticism - Descanting the Insalubrious" [0] by British band Carcass was a landmark work which took the use of unusual vocabulary in metal lyrics to a new (and arguably-satirical) level [1]. Here are some examples, lists of the uncommon words included in a few of the songs lyrics: Track 1, "Inpropagation" : atrabilious, crevet, ebullition, beatrific, exequiet, coronach, humous, fecundate, defa…
But never since have I come across such philial odes to corpses and the cleaning thereof.
Edited to add I'm thinking of Symphonies of Sickness as the one I listened to the most, although Necroticism came a close second.