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* Death Metal songs with gore in it in general. Chances are, they are songs about how they are doing some of the most horrific stuff that mankind can come up with.
* The lyrics in a typical Devourment song includes horrific rape. And if raping/killing you is all they'll do, then consider yourself lucky. And if you died being raped, they'll do other horrific stuff to your dead body.
* The eponymous character of The Decemberists' "The Rake's Song" relates how he murders his three children after their mother died in childbirth because he wants a new life, including beating his son to death and burning the body for daring to fight back, and concludes by saying that he doesn't regret it.
* The Notorious B.I.G. and Eminem both come across as this in Dead Wrong, with Biggie alone describing murdering and/or raping an entire family.
* Eminem in general has made himself (or at least his alter ego, Slim Shady) out to be one in many of his rap songs. Must be part of being a Misanthrope Supreme.
* The Beatles's song Maxwell's Silver Hammer about Maxwell Edison, a crazed kid that murders with said hammer a girl, his teacher, and the judge who took his case, in front of a full courtroom. In the Quarrybastards's movie, Maxwell even pulls a Karma Houdini!
* The Frameshift album "An Absence of Empathy" was created to explore the nature of violence and features songs from various viewpoints. Nearly everyone is given some sympathy: the serial killer in "Just One More" is mentally ill and cannot stop himself, the impulse murderer in "I Killed You" was so remorseful that he killed himself afterward, the school shooter in "Outcast" was bullied his entire life. Even the possible rapist in "How Long Can I Resist?" is portrayed as simply longing for a connection with a woman and desperately wanting someone to stop him. The torturer in "This Is Gonna Hurt", however, is a Complete Monster who delights in the pain of his victim, going so far as to describe their screams as music.
* The main character of Creature Feature's "Such Horrible Things" talks of all the things he's done while stating outright that he should be killed gruesomely for having done it all. The way he muses about one incident with sinister chuckle says he enjoyed every moment. The scariest part is what he did when he was 14. At first, he says that nothing happened, but then he remembers "that one time" and chuckles. Cue a series of screams and about 50 seconds without any narration.
* "Garbage" by Tyler, the Creator: The Serial Killer is initially just an ordinary drug dealer who later found joy after killing a guy for trespassing his territory. Addicted to killing, he then goes on to commit numerous murders and slaughters a task force that tried to arrest him. He also keeps a number of victims alive in his house basement, rips out their arms and legs so that they wouldn't leave, and tortures them for his own amusement. It is also implied that he killed children or at least drugged them to the point where they are beyond saving.
* During live shows early in their career, Disturbed would paint their "madman" lead singer as this during his Alice Cooper-like on-stage execution for concert openings. He struggles like an animal, strapped into an electric chair, while a chilling voice reads out his absurdly long and unreal list of crimes.
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* After this, the room darkens while Draiman can be heard sizzling. A moment later, they play Down with the Sickness. Also, the docket number is Draiman's birthday (March 13, 1973).
* The doctors in the video probably count too. Horrible as Draiman may have been, assuming any of the intro was true, anyone who waterboards someone in a sink, cuts up a defenseless man with a chainsaw, or force-feeds someone human eyeballs and flesh is most certainly beyond any kind of redemption themselves.
* Apparently, this was parodied in Red Band’s ‘final performance’. The story behind the performance was that Red was sentenced to death and his final request was a kick-ass final performance. The performance started with various ‘evidence’ from his ‘trial’, including the judge’s shock at the nature of Red’s acts, followed by Red’s therapist coming on stage and mentioning how Red had sexually harassed his own mother in utero, performed incest with strangers, and didn’t pay his therapist bills. (Red himself seems to show genuine affection to no-one, to the point where he encourages his friend Poncho to jump to his death already for no other reason than ‘I haven’t got all day, I got shit to do’, the only exceptions being Marina Maximillian Blumin, with whom he falls in love, and his own son.)
* Though opinions differ, Murdoc of the Gorillaz definitely Crosses the Line Twice and then some. So far, his track record includes theft, insurance fraud, possible murder, Organ Theft, extortion, and many, many counts of assault. Most of these crimes were aimed at 2D, the only person who'd tolerate him as long as he did, and on top of all that, Murdoc's still a misanthropic, filthy, perverted alcoholic.
* The main character in When You're Evil by Voltaire claims to be the embodiment of evil. He starts to show sadness and regret at the end...and then reveals he was lying!
* "Excitable Boy" by Warren Zevon: The title boy is obviously insane from the start of the song, but as it goes on his actions become more psychotic until he rapes and kills his date to the Junior Prom. Then, after getting released from an asylum after 10 years, he digs up her grave and makes a cage out of her bones.
* The singer in "Kiss Me, Son of God" is a horrendously sociopathic Villain with Good Publicity who revels in the fact that he gets people to love him even while he torments them.
* The guy in Avenged Sevenfold's song, A Little Piece of Heaven. His girlfriend rejects him, so he stabs her 50 times, rips out her heart while she's alive and eats it, and he rapes her corpse. Really, he only feels bad when Karma catches up to him and sics his zombie girlfriend on him...but he still gets off as a Karma Houdini who starts a Zombie Apocalypse.
* Angels" by Within Temptation: The unnamed priest lures the main character into his house after her companion seemingly abandons her on the side of the road. Bait the Dog ensues as he is established as a nice guy. The woman goes to his back room and discovers newspaper clippings of a bunch of other women. It is then revealed that he is not a priest, but rather a Serial Killer who dresses up as trustworthy people (such as a doctor, a clown, and a priest) and lures women into his home to kill them. The killer then chloroforms the woman and takes her out into the desert to kill her by burying her alive next to the at least 16 graves of the other women he killed. Just when it looks like it's the end for her, she, her companion, and several other band members reveal themselves as angels (hence the title) and the souls of the women he killed come back to kill him. He is never given any reason for why he likes to bury women alive, leaving us to assume that he does it For the Evulz. Throughout the video, his eyes are shown to glow red.
* The title character of Shinedown's "Bully". The lyric "Make another joke while they hang another rope" cements this. That's right, he's cracking jokes about people who hang themselves from his torture.
* "The Curse of Milhaven" by Nick Cave: Lottie, the 14-year-old title character and narrator is such a sadistic, prolific, and senseless killer that her actions are mistaken for some sort of curse upon her hometown. First, she murders a young boy by bashing in his head, and hides his body in a creek. She then decapitates a handyman and leaves his head in a fountain, and stabs her neighbor to death. After getting caught, she happily describes the rest of her crimes in detail: on top of the murders, she had taken down warning signs around a lake in late Winter, resulting in the deaths of 20 children, and committed arson around a slum, burning it and its inhabitants to the ground. She ends the song by explicitly stating that she feels no remorse, and makes it clear that she committed these crimes for fun.
* The singer character of the Dave Matthew's Band "Don't Drink The Water" is a man who's come to a land populated by natives and is claiming it as his own. His proposition to the natives that he makes for most of the song is that they either get out of his new home or he'll kill them. The implication is that the natives refused to move, because the lyrics soon are "Upon these poor souls I'll build Heaven and call it home - Cause you're all dead now!" The singer proceeds to sing about how he'll live with greed, no mercy, frenzied feeding, hatred, jealousy, and the notion that he doesn't need anyone because he's the only one who matters. And then the title of the song comes because "there's blood in the water."
* "The Hazards of Love" by The Decemberists: One of the two main villains of the album, the Rake is a self-centered sociopath who only married his wife to slake his want for sex, and believed fatherhood was a curse. Glad about the deaths of his wife and third daughter in childbirth, the Rake decided to murder his remaining children in order to gain the freedom of a new, carefree life. In "The Rake's Song", he reveals he poisoned his elder daughter, drowned the younger, and beat his son to death then burned his body because the boy dared to fight back. Assuring the listener he's never really been bothered about murdering his own kids, in the second half of the album he begins his new life by abducting the heavily pregnant Margaret with the intent to rape her.
* The Emerald Sword Saga by Rhapsody of Fire: Akron, the Big Bad from the Concept Album series is a ruthless warlord and champion of the Dark God Kron. Akron begins by destroying the city of Ancelot and capturing its princess Airin. He lures The Warrior of Ice into giving him the famed Emerald Sword by threatening to execute all his prisoners, but has already killed them all. Akron has princess Airin raped to death by his demons in front of the men who love her, before having her beloved Arwald tortured and executed by being thrown into an acid pool. Akron's armies run rampant, destroying everything they encounter and slaughtering all they can. After a long campaign, when the Warrior of Ice is captured, Akron has him tortured and then decides to execute him by having him fed to the ravenous water snakes in the swamps. Akron is so horrible, even his Noble Top Enforcer Dargor finally turns on him to help destroy him after witnesses his horrible excesses.
* The narrator of A Criminal Mind definitely qualifies. That song could almost be the ANTHEM for this trope...Gowan really brings the point home in the second part of the first verse:
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* The song is about how the narrator is a ruthless, charismatic criminal mastermind (whose crimes, by the way, are neither explained nor elaborated on) essentially boasting about how nothing and no-one can change him. Summed up excellently in the second part of the final verse:
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