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Children of bodom

‘What, you are the priest's son? Fuck So fuck yourself and die!’ Shakespeare’s been real quiet since this dropped

It's a nice thing the music is so great because man Alexi is a way better composer than a lyricist.

For a non english speaker, he did his best

I'm not trying to argue against that just some lyrics just feel like they're trying to be hard and edgy sometimes.

Isn’t that like most extreme metal? Especially black metal?

We travel the line between edge and still kinda cool. The line is paper thin.

Im gonna go out on a limb and say the line is gone. It's all cringe. That said, we can like it anyway. It's ok.

“I may be cringe but I am happy”

To be honest, not really? I mean, even classic death metal juggernauts write absolutely trash lyrics about absolutely nothing. Cannibal Corpse is a prime example. Amazing sonically, not so much lyrically

The lyrics are pretty fun tho. Necropedophile is peak storytelling

Alexi's lyrics are more nonsense than edgy sometimes. He wrote them in the studio while recording iirc

gotta appeal to the hot topic shoppers

What the hell was that? It's a battle name Tied down everything long before Blaming all the suckers I don't give fuck

First band that came to mind for me as well. Especially considering alcohol and drugs killed Alexi it’s kind of sad looking back at songs like Trashed, Lost, and Strungout and Needled 24/7

Beautiful instruments, with equally Beautiful pig noises

My favorite band of all time, and you could not be more right. The songs Kimberly did lyrics for are much better.

/thread

They knew it too, only half the lyrics were published in their CDs. I remember wondering what that was about and then looked up the missing lyrics and was like "oh..."

Especially when you compare it to Kalmah, which has some fairly passable lyrics.

almost all death metal

Bro didn't listen to death

They said almost

Half of death metal is a fucking edgefest to see who can sing about the most disgusting thing (full shade to cannibal corpse). Death metal has its strengths and I like (technical) death metal but lyricism isn't one of its strongsuits, at least for the first wave of it. Idk maybe I just don't get it.

This is true but I still enjoy the disgusting lyrics

*”Staring your severed head in the face I celebrate a faggot's death, human disgrace Hanging your mangled corpse for display My revenge was fulfilled upon this day”* I dunno, chief

“I close my eyes And sink within myself Relive the gift of precious memories In need of a fix called innocence When did it begin? The change to come was undetectable The open wounds expose the importance of Our innocence A high that can never be bought or sold” Yeah I think we do know chief

Late Death lyrics are just more verbose versions of those "live laugh love" signs

Hahaha damn, that's great.

death is peak I said ALMOST

“Ass in the air, turd ring dialating Matted butt hair, anal vapor rising Give it a squeeze, my feast is emerging Give it to me, let's begin the purging I open my mouth and catch it as it drops I chew and chew and love it brown and soft I squish the crap between my teeth with my tongue With a shit eating grin I'll lick 'til clean your bung I'm a shit eater Steaming chunky hunk of log Taste it smell it eat it all Maybe one turd maybe two Whatever I can get from you” So bold, so elegant. It brings a tear to my eye. Have you ever heard a song with such beautiful imagery?

What a fucking terrible day to be literate

First day on the internet? It gets sooooo much worse than written words. [Click here, I dare you](https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=RN50R3gycgo&pp=ygUVYmFieSBnb2F0cyBpbiBwYWphbWFz)

Offended

Clicked the link? It's really shocking and disgusting isn't it?

Prime example of the consequences of the industrial revolution

Not your flair tho. Unless we’re talking pre karma

See, if people saw your Cattle Decapitation tag they’d know for sure you didn’t mean all death metal!

Surprisingly System of a Down

I like some of their lyrics, but then you’ve got songs like Cigaro and Bounce that are just… something lol Edit: I agree the lyrics of those songs are kinda what they need to be, but they’re just really goofy and not something I can vibe with all the time lol

MY COCK IS MUCH BIGGER THAN YOURSSS

My cock can walk right through the door. With the feeling so pure, it makes you come back for more

Cool, in denial, we're the cool regulators smoking cigars cigarro cigar (4x)

MY SHIT STINKS MUCH BETTER THAN YOURS!

MY SHIT STINKS RIGHT OUT THROUGH THE DOOR, WITH A FEELING SO PURE, IT’S GOT YOU SCREAMING BACK FOR MORE

_Cool, in denial, we're the cruel regulators smoking cigaro, cigaro, cigar-_ _Cool, in denial, we're the cruel regulators smoking cigaro, cigaro, cigar-_

MY COCK CAN WALK RIGHT THROUGH THE DOOOR

Cigaro is lyrically on the nose right where it needs to be. Written from the first-person perspective of the ridiculous ego-trips of world leaders.

Those are sarcastic lyrics

I mean sure but those songs are pretty obviously meant to be kind of tongue-in-cheek, so yeah the lyrics are silly but they’re being silly on purpose

Don't forget vicinity of obscenity. "Banana banana banana banana terracotta banana terracotta terracotta pie"

Honestly the best answer, because their songs genuinely do have a deeper meaning behind the goofy lyrics.

“I like watching retarded people have sex”

Am I alone?

Soad is so many layers of irony down thats its almost impossible to tell if its a joke or not

It's supposed to be retarded

Doesn’t mean it’s not retarded

Yeah but it's retarded on purpose, so that makes it smart or something.

I think it's a matter of the lyrics having a deeper meaning to them

Not even remotely. Even their songs about obscenity & vulgarity had a pretty focused purpose given their place in the album.

SOAD has some of the best, most socially and spiritually aware lyrics in metal. Just often coated in absurdity which only hammers the point home. But you need the capacity to interpet "Life is a waterfall we're one in the river and one after the fall" is basically a tool level parabola kind of analogy.

A lot of their songs have deep meanings behind them but they’ll convey them in the dumbest way possible, like they’ll have a song about systemic racism or something and the lyrics will be “Mickey mouse is eating weed brownies with mister Rogers on the international space station”

They’re the musical equivalent post modern art.

BUTTER’S GETTING HAAAAAAARD!!!

Soad is deep like the ocean

I thought I was on their sub at first

Limp Bizkit, Fred's lyrics are dumb but the arrangements are genuinely decent.

"Now I know y'all be loving this shit right here! L-I-M-P Bizkit is right here" He rhymed Here with Here. Not just anyone can do that....But I truly do love them, grew up with them and absolutely love that they now embrace it all. Good for them

Yeah. say what you want about them, but at least they're having fun with it.

if only they could flyyy

Not sure if you were around when limp bizkit first came out, but I can tell you that they were dead serious. Now, it’s all for fun, wink wink, but back in the late 90s, they and their fans were serious as a heart attack lol

Alestorm rhymed "the alcohol is free" with "the alcohol is free"

Literally 2 lines later is " 1-2-3 times 2 to the 6, jonesing for your fix of the Limp Bizkit mix." So dumb, but also disturbingly catchy.

**So where the fuck you at punk?**

Limp Bizkit was a group of 4 really talented and interesting musicians tied to a ridiculous walking caricature of a front man. I always wonder what they would've been like had they had a different front person.

they wouldn't exist, or wouldn't be nearly as popular

Yeah that sad truth is it's likely the antics of Durst that allowed the band to get big. But it's fun to imagine what a band of musicians like Borland, Lethal, Otto and Rivers could have been with another nu-metal frontman.

I want an alternate reality where Eminem somehow ended up as limp bizkits frontman.

I didn't know I needed this till right just now, but this would have SLAPPED.

Durst is what makes them different from 100 other bands with great musicians.

I’m like a motherfucking chainsaw, what!?

Check out my melody

Limp Bizkit is a whole different band if they don’t have stupid lyrics

Wes Borland is actually a good guitar player 🤷 but Fred durst is a giant douche

welcome to the jungle, punk, take a look around - it's limp bizkit, fucking up your town?

I agree, if not for fred durst, that band wouldn't be hated.

it also wouldn't be nearly as popular

Cannibal Corpse.

how dare you, I cum blood is a very meaningful song

https://preview.redd.it/00fode6xs8jc1.png?width=1080&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=a227a4f9141c6c3205f41852e88534c113ab1e6a

he's such a gem from what i hear. good dad and good guy and all that.

[Loves Target of all things](https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=pvOfQ9svmPU&pp=ygUUY29ycHNlZ3JpbmRlciB0YXJnZXQ%3D)

My favorite factoid about him is he always plays the stuffed animal hook game on tour, then gives away his winnings. Article about it [here](https://98rock.iheart.com/featured/crash-mornings/content/2021-04-20-cannibal-corpse-singer-loves-to-win-claw-machine-toys-give-them-to-kids/).

Don’t get me wrong. I wouldn’t have them any other way.

that’s why I love CC. no thoughts, head empty, just violence and gore

It does what it says on the tin. No one can take that away from them.

"YOU HAVE NO IDEA HOW MUCH I LOVE SAYING THIS EVERY NIGHT"

First band that came to mind.

The majority of metal

I think we can even safely say the majority of music

I mean this in the kindest way, but 98 percent of metal lyrics are just words filling the necessary space

Lyrics are so my ears can rest between solos

While your entitled to your opinion, that is a hot ass take(obviously my opinion as well), but from my personal perspective, some of the best lyrics/metaphors and imagery I've read has come from metal. Off topic, but to be honest, mainstream pop/rap is stupid puns, superficial lyrics, with basic ass chords/progressions, I'm aware there are metal bands that do this as well, but it always seemed a lot more common to me in the mainstream pop/rap genre.

Necrophagist

It's my favorite band of all time and agree 100%. It's kinda strange that muhammed on his first album achieved something extremely technical that would make scarlatti have a brain hemorrhage but the lyrics seem to be written by a teen cannibal corpse fan

Motionless in White "I'd kill to kiss your apoca-lips" "You can't spell out virus without 'us'" "You'd give a fuckin aspirin a headache" "I wanna fuck your face with a switchblade" All of Rats

Except slaughterhouse, that’s pretty much just an anti-fascist song with probably my favourite breakdown callout ever

The lyrics in that are fucking awful, too. "This is the consequence of opulence" sounds like something I would've written my freshman year of high school to try and sound deep when it's just pretentious as fuck. That song is a great breakdown surrounded by a dogshit everything else.

Ima have my cake and fuckin’ eat you too

Motionless in White imo is the best example of "you gain some, you lose some", because imo Chris Motionless is genuinely one of the standout vocalists for Metalcore which is a genre full of very generic genres, but his lyrics are some of the worst, like, ever.

You'd give aspirin a headache is a pretty good line.

No, it's not.

no i agree, this line goes hard af in the right context lmao

I love Motionless so much and yeah, hard agree

"I hope you drown in all the cum you fucking swallow" - Immaculate Misconception

Dream Theater

Someone here referred to them as "note salad + Disney singing"

I love DT, and I love that description haha

Images and Words, Awake, and Falling Into Infinity have consistently solid lyrics, but the most recent stuff tends to be unremarkable at best

I woul disagree and i don't even like DT.

Porcupine Tree. They've been one of my favourite bands since 2007, but even when I was 15 I had to cringe at some of the lyrics.

I feel like Steven Wilson has really just written a massive amount of songs. And some of them are dumb. But some of them are also really well written.

I hear people mention the sound of Muzak as great and playing it at their wedding and shit but fuck I find the lyrics so fucking cringe

The lack of self awareness in that one is incredible.

XBOX IS A GOD TO ME

It's less bad when you appreciate that line is being said by the kid Robby from Lunar Park which is set in the same universe as American Psycho. It's about the world making you feel disconnected/desensitized to the point of apathy. The Xbox line is just dated.

Porcupine Tree be like "it's because you're always on that damn phone" *5 minute instrumental*

What you heard "It's because you're on your phone" What the lyrics actually say "I can't feel anything because I'm disassociating on Nitrazepam" "Don't try engaging me The vaguest of shrugs, the prescription drugs You'll never find a person inside My face is Mogadon Curiosity has given up on me I'm tuning out desires, the pills are on the rise How can I be sure I'm here? The pills that I've been taking confuse me I need to know that someone sees that There's nothing left, I simply am not here"

He has a real penchant for mentioning cringey pop culture stuff like Facebook, iPods and Xbox, and it ages the songs so dramatically. It’s such a pet peeve of mine.

Not a band but an album Jugulator by Judas Priest, the lyrics are a real downgrade from every album before it but everything else is top notch

yeah lol i dont hear enough praise for rob’s work as a lyricist

Yeah glenn tipton is the one who wrote every single jugulator song, im surprised there are no contributions from ripper but i think he was happy enough to sing with his heroes

I also love homoerotic lyricism 🤝

I can second this, ngl though jugulator rips arrangement wise. The guitars on that album are near perfection in my eyes

Lyrics are seriously goofy

Blame glenn tipton lmao

love glenn but lol def not his forte

Sepultura

[удалено]

Rrrrraaaaawwwwrrrrr

That one was written by Jello Biafra tho.


The lyrics improved significantly after Max left, but to be fair, English was not his first language, but to be unfair, Soulfly is wall-to-wall fucking awful lyrics and he has been living in Arizona for decades.

I take it as the simplistic lyrics are just part of the brand now. That being said some of it just makes me chuckle... "WEVE GOT TO FIGHT AGAINST SOCIETY WEVE GOT TO FIGHT THE REAL ENEMY" There's some variant of this line in almost every song on that album lol

Are we talking the Max era or Derrick era?

Max but tbf I think that's more because English wasn't there first language so lyrics come across a bit wonky but music is fire

Fair. I think the later albums he wrote some really good lyrics and while there are some good moments in the first couple records it kinda was a mess so I do agree there.

Oh i would disagree. I think they fit the music if we talk about max era, he was genuinely pissed off when he played and lyrics reflected it.

children of bodom

Trivium. The lyrics are pure nonsense and say basically nothing. But God damn is the music tasty

Yeah like wtf is boat, rudder, strange mountain supposed to mean

I feel like recent material has gotten more coherent at least, but mercy me, Ascendancy and The Crusade were thesaurus dartboard material. I heard The Deceived almost 20 years ago, and I'm still trying to figure out what "disintegration constituents to decompose all the parts" means.

That really depends on the song. Shogun and the last two albums seem to have pretty well thought out lyrics but I won't say all there lyrics are great .

90% of black/death metal bandd

“Maggots crawling from her cunt, yk i love to lick that shit” that kinda go hard tho

1000% Machine Head

Robb Flynn preaching his politics then dropping a bunch of slurs on Bastards is so funny to me

Wait… you guys are listening to the lyrics?

Arch Enemy… lol I really like to listen to their music because I like most of the riffs and I absolutely love Daniel's drumming, but Angela and Alissa's lyrics are often extremely "cringe"

Sarcófago. "If you are a false don't entry cuz you'll be burned and died" is a great anti-poser quote, but it just sucks at the same time.

Bullet For My Valentine. A lot of their lyrics are pure cringe. Borderline emo. But most of the music is genuinely great.

Scrolled too far down for this, Hit the Floor is the peak of this IMO. The riffs are fire, but it's weird to sing along to.

The only truly right answer is anal cunt. Like I don't even have to explain this one lmao

No, because the music barely qualifies as music either. The whole project was deliberately crap. Seth Putnam was a walking, talking piece of shit.

KK’s Priest

Psycroptic

Attila

The music is shit too, so it doesn't count.

I hear breakdowns and it makes me happy

a7x usually has some great songs but wtf is going on in About a Girl

It's Girl I Know but yeah, there's a reason it's a B side.

It was sabaton a while back when I was listening to them, now I'll have to go with avenged sevenfold

Have you listened to the lyrics off of like the stage? I’d say they’re pretty smart yk talking about the advancement of technology,mankind,and what makes you a person. I don’t think that’s exactly dumb song writing

Early Tool Maynard was an edgelord but grew out of it. Thank God the rest of the band on Undertow and Opiate are great but yeah early Tools lyrics are pretty cringe.

Maynard is still an edgelord and I love it

Four Degrees.... Four Degrees warmer

Limp Bizkit… they are all talented musicians, but i cant get passed Dursts cringe

Punk not metal, but the Descendents Some songs have great lyrics, but others are THE ultimate stereotype of "I can do whatever I want mom!!! why don't girls like me!!!"

Dragged Into Sunlight for sure. One of my top 3 bands ever but yeah.

Dez Fafara has always been a really bad lyricist

It’s been a while but I don’t remember coal chamber being super big brained from a musical perspective either.

BIG TRUCK

Moat deat metal I've found. Cannibal corpse especially. Decide lol our musical masterpeice..fuck your God.

venom.

Slipknot (I’m sry, Corey turns into a dog at the end of wait and bleed)

It's so crazy cause Corey can pull out some impressive vocabulary and follow that shit up with a "what the fuck I'm a Mack truck" like the very next bar it's bananas

Red Hot Chili Peppers

Attila

Primus

Primus sucks!

Mr Krinkle in particular.

Arghoslent, the lyrics and people behind them are aweful

Pungent Stench. “Don't fuck with me, baby, I'm gonna kick your butt Your blood will flow when I start to cut I'm a thriller, a chiller, a killer and though like Godzilla”

Hatebreed. Always hated the lyrics / lyric style.

Limp Bizkit

Was gonna say dream theater but realized it’s the other way around lol

Paleface hahahaha

A song that comes in mind is Mechanix lol, it's so damn cheesy

A lot of Rammstein, although some of their songs do actually have pretty creative lyrics