Part of changing this perception was moving away from referring to genders almost entirely on their new LP, Obscene Majesty.
Over the years, the Texas slam pioneers' music has become synonymous with toxic machismo in death metal - an idea the band never meant to foster. They know that it was fucked up.”įor Devourment, the shift had to be a little more pointed. “Most of them are fathers themselves, and they’re married, and they’ve grown up. “Bands who have had misogynistic lyrics in the past - you’ve got to give them the credit of growing up and reflecting on what they used to talk and sing about,” states Larissa Stupar, vocalist for UK death metallers Venom Prison. And as repulsive as all death metal subject matter is, especially in brutal/slam death metal and deathcore, many of the musicians at receiving end of the scorn (read: women) think those penning the words need to be given the opportunity to grow. Not only have many bands, including those listed above, changed their approach to death metal lyrics, but many of the scene's new voices have also chimed in on nuance of the violence represented in their music. However, in the modern scene, key players in the genre - both those who've previously played into the problem and those who have been affected by it - are turning the tide. The latter’s seemingly-benign title is belied by its opening sound clip of a disturbing sexual assault and one of the more intelligible lyrics (again, relatively speaking) exclaiming, “Mangled fucking slut!” In more recent memory, brutal, technical bands like Devourment, Thy Art Is Murder and Vulvodynia have sought to outrage audiences with songs like Fuck Her Head Off, Whore to a Chainsaw and Psychosadistic Design, respectively. For decades, death metal bands have focused on the classic horror-movie theme of cutting up girls as the sole subject matter of their shock value-driven albums. Misogyny in death metal has been done to death.
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