Pure Lyrical Malice

[cojo965]

Everyone has heard this at least once, a song that is the audio equivalent to staring down a wild silverback gorrila that is beating its chest in intimidation. A song with lyrics so menacing that you would fear to run into the person who wrote it in a dark alley. What, for you is that song?

For me, most of the songs from The Devils Carnival soudtrack fall into this area. From the spooky air created by In All My Dreams I Drown, to 666 which warns the carnival residents from breaking any of 666 rules, to Grief, whose tone is nicely summed up by this section from the song:

You're drowning in the grief
Of Jupiter's water
Let me open my teeth
And cradle you there
There's a bed for the boy
And rope for the father
Both orphaned by Heaven
Where no child is spared

None of them, however, compare to the heartbeat like pace and downright evil rhyming of Grace For Sale:

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[shrekfan246]

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Anyway, for me it's usually more in the delivery than the lyrics themselves. That's why I have a particular enjoyment for the Deftones' "Around the Fur".


I don't usually catch lyrics unless I actively look them up, so they don't make a huge difference to me in the end unless I'm trying to sing the song in question.

 

[MisterGobbles]

Lyrics NSFW, just browse the comments. This guy has issues.

 

[cojo965]

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Anyway, for me it's usually more in the delivery than the lyrics themselves. That's why I have a particular enjoyment for the Deftones' "Around the Fur".


I don't usually catch lyrics unless I actively look them up, so they don't make a huge difference to me in the end unless I'm trying to sing the song in question.

Thanks and you're right, the delivery helps. If the lyrics are as awesome as the delivery, then the song is even more epic. I wish the video was better though, it was the best I could find outside of a crap Repo! music video.

 

[Esotera]

I am going with the most excellent Fear Factory, simply for how awesome this chorus is:


And here are a few very close runners up:

 

[Erja_Perttu]

Pink Floyd - One Of These Days


Anyone who knows this song knows which bit I'm talking about. Anyone who doesn't, try listening to it from about 2:30 onward.

 

[Mr. GameBrain]

Such angry words.

I don't think you're happy enough!

I'll teach you to be happy!

 

[someonehairy-ish]

Gojira make some of the most evil sounding music in the world. Most of it is actual about saving the Earth or finding meaning in life, but they make it sound utterly angry and brutal.

Spoiler: Example 1

Plastic form dead things it is now so clear
How could I fail to understand
Cities are burning the trees are dying
My heart awake but still
Pain is killing me

Spoiler: Example 2

The buildings of our fathers
Crumbling in dark vibrations
Wolf down the one that made us all
No hope, you wolf down the earth

Or my personal favourite song of theirs (less evil, just good) -

 

[Loonyyy]

I like the Dead Kennedys for their air of menace. It's more musical than lyrical, but in "We've got bigger problems now/California Uber Alles" it gets pretty dark. Their lyrics aren't all that subtle though.

 

[piinyouri]

Inb4 a shit ton of old-school death metal lyrics.



Here's a wonderful ditty from Covens song Iron Dick.

"Pulsating steel protrudes from my thighs
she who spreads is she who dies
Long as my arm and five times as thick
You'll die at the end of my iron dick"

 

[Chromatic Aberration]

Malice as in deliciously evil?

Spoiler: Polkadot Cadaver - Chloroform Girl

...or malice as in generally unsettling, for example by a song where I can't even understand one word of the lyrics in the song, yet know them to be a deeply intimidating representation of the cruel flow of time?

Spoiler: Kayo Dot - The Antique

Spoiler: Lyrics

Dust fills my Mouth with a Timeless Poltergeist Rapping
Lightly upon a Dusty Door;
It Locks the Days together
Yesterday
This Artefact wasn't rightly so.
Flanked by Shelves incorporating me into their Lonely Dream,
I search for Tremors lying Weeping
'Neath the Broken Tiled Floor
Weeping with a Broken Madness,
Weeping for the Day Before.
Tarnished Silver in the Cupboard soothes
The Fathoms of my Aching Silver Beard;
Like Shining Eyes scoured by
A Sour Creaking Gait,
Cataracts dim the
Eloquence that wore
The Shining Cloak of younger Pride,
And This was Long,
Long before their Careless Keeper died.

A Revenant spread its Foul Curse to Every Living Thing
With Stories trapp'd on Yellowed Pages
By Talismans of Poignant Lethargy.
Tales Twilit bear their Ruin'd Words
To this Ghoulish Scenery,
Slouching over Candlelight
Extinguished in another Century.

The Grandfather Clock once Told its Beads,
While Outside the Branches
Bowed their Windows slightly Out of Key.
And this Downstairs, where a
Forlorn Clock has long since Lost its Faith,
And a House's Stale Breath sighs like the
Whispers of a Wraith.

Spiders Decorate an Appearance
That stretches Gnarled Hands
Back into a Relinquished Parlour Game;
Wisps of Ghostly Languor hinting faintly of Perique
Ring the Ancyent Air and Fade,
Murmuring of Things Antique.
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[Soviet Heavy]

The Trial by Pink Floyd. It's the culmination of The Wall in all its macabre glory, with the title Character being berated by everything and everyone that ever caused his predicament in the first place. The song is pretty much his sub-conscience giving him the mother of all fuck yous and forcing him to pull himself out of his rut.

 

[lemby117]

Kim by Eminem, I'm am a big Eminem fan but I hate that song with a passion. It is just wrong

 

[unoleian]

The Trial by Pink Floyd. It's the culmination of The Wall in all its macabre glory, with the title Character being berated by everything and everyone that ever caused his predicament in the first place. The song is pretty much his sub-conscience giving him the mother of all fuck yous and forcing him to pull himself out of his rut.

I'll see you the Trial and raise you a Run Like Hell. Seriously, that song is fucked up.

You better make your face up in
Your favourite disguise
With your button down lips and your
Roller blind eyes
With your empty smile
And your hungry heart
Feel the bile rising from your guilty past
With your nerves in tatters
When the cockleshell shatters
And the hammers batter
Down the door
You better run

and

You better run all day
And run all night
And keep your dirty feelings
Deep inside. And if you're
Taking your girlfriend
Out tonight
You better park the car
Well out of sight
'Cos if they catch you in the back seat
Trying to pick her locks
They're gonna send you back to mother
In a cardboard box
You better run

 

[Soviet Heavy]

Snip

You can pretty much call The Wall an entire album of pain, malice and harshness. None of it is particularly upbeat or hopeful. Even the end, Outside the Wall, is tempered with doubt, with the last words being "isn't this where-" mirroring the first words of the album "we came in?".

The whole thing could just as easily start right over again.

 

[Cyfu]

That's Japan for you ^^

 

[FalloutJack]

Pure Lyrical Malice, eh? Hell, why hasn't anybody mentioned Bob Dylan? Or Yoko Ono? Doesn't matter what they're saying. Your ears are screaming "FUCK YOU!" for listening.

 

[lithiumvocals]

Previous examples from The Wall are spot on. Other than that...

Blood rack
Barbed wire
Polititians' funeral pyre
Innocents raped with napalm fire
21st Century Schizoid Man

Just the way it's sung sounds venomous.

 

[II2]

I've dragged this up before, but it's still just as horrible. No metaphors, just hate. Frightening, unrelenting and direct.

Spoiler: NSFW, Trigger Warning

Nobody's posts have anything on this.