12 Unsettling Songs About Murderers & Serial Killers | Playlist 🎧
![12 Unsettling Songs About Murderers & Serial Killers (2025) [📷: Brent Faulkner / The Musical Hype; AcatXlo, Clker-Free-Vector-Images, PublicDomainPictures from Pixabay]](https://i0.wp.com/themusicalhype.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/12-unsettling-songs-about-murderers-and-serial-killers.jpg?fit=768%2C768&ssl=1)
12 Unsettling Songs About Murderers & Serial Killers features songs by Cannibal Corpse, Defeated Sanity, Ghost, SKYND, Slipknot, and The Killers.

Sifting through all of the musical hype

Sifting through all of the musical hype
![12 Unsettling Songs About Murderers & Serial Killers (2025) [📷: Brent Faulkner / The Musical Hype; AcatXlo, Clker-Free-Vector-Images, PublicDomainPictures from Pixabay]](https://i0.wp.com/themusicalhype.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/12-unsettling-songs-about-murderers-and-serial-killers.jpg?fit=768%2C768&ssl=1)
12 Unsettling Songs About Murderers & Serial Killers features songs by Cannibal Corpse, Defeated Sanity, Ghost, SKYND, Slipknot, and The Killers.
![15 Chilling Murder Ballads (2024) [📷: Brent Faulkner / The Musical Hype; Clker-Free-Vector-Images, Monika Grafik from Pixabay; Iluha Zavaley from Unsplash]](https://i0.wp.com/themusicalhype.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/15-chilling-murder-ballads.jpg?fit=768%2C768&ssl=1)
15 Chilling Murder Ballads features music courtesy of Aerosmith, Bruce Springsteen, Carrie Underwood, Eminem, SZA, and Taylor Swift.
![Two Disturbing Killers Named Dennis 🎧 [📷: Brent Faulkner, Clovis Cheminot, The Musical Hype, OpenClipart-Vectors, Pixabay]](https://i0.wp.com/themusicalhype.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/07/two-disturbing-killers-named-dennis-00.jpg?fit=768%2C768&ssl=1)
🎧 Two Disturbing Killers Named Dennis – Dennis Rader + Dennis Nilsen – features ACE, Church of Misery, Exodus, Macabre & Steven Wilson.
![Dennis Rader: 5ive Songs No. 58 (2021) [📷: Brent Faulkner, Clovis Cheminot, The Musical Hype, OpenClipart-Vectors, Pixabay, Tumisu from Pixabay]](https://i0.wp.com/themusicalhype.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/07/dennis-rader-5ive-songs-58-2021.jpg?fit=768%2C768&ssl=1)
On the 58th edition of 5ive Songs (2021), we select five songs that are associated with serial killer Dennis Rader in some form or fashion.
![Mass Murder Songs: A Disturbing Compendium 🎧 [📷 : Brent Faulkner, Damir Spanic, The Musical Hype, Unsplash]](https://i0.wp.com/themusicalhype.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/07/mass-murder-songs-a-disturbing-compendium.jpg?fit=768%2C768&ssl=1)
🎧 Mass Murder Songs: A Disturbing Compendium features Accept, Bastille, Ice Nine Kills, Lana Del Rey, Macabre & Shirley Caesar.
![10 Disturbing Songs Referencing the Rostov Ripper [📷: Brent Faulkner, The Musical Hype, Pixabay]](https://i0.wp.com/themusicalhype.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/10-disturbing-songs-referencing-the-rostov-ripper.jpg?fit=768%2C768&ssl=1)
10 Disturbing Songs Referencing the Rostov Ripper 🎧 features Church of Misery, Chaos Synopsis, Impious, Slayer & Step in Blood.
![DEATH: 5ive Songs No. 51 [📷: Aftermath, Brent Faulkner, Dead Oceans, Interscope, Metal Blade, The Musical Hype, Pixabay, Universal Music]](https://i0.wp.com/themusicalhype.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/death-5ive-songs-no-51.jpg?fit=768%2C768&ssl=1)
On this edition of 5ive Songs, we select five morbid songs that are associated with unflattering DEATH 😵☠⚰.
![GACY: Soundtrack to a Murderous Clown [Photo Credits: Brent Faulkner, The Musical Hype, Pixabay, Unsplash]](https://i0.wp.com/themusicalhype.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/gacy-soundtrack-to-a-murderous-clown-1.jpg?fit=768%2C768&ssl=1)
Gacy: Soundtrack to a Murderous Clown features music about and referencing infamous serial killer, John Wayne Gacy (1942 – 1994).
![11 Unsettling Songs About Gay Serial Killers [Photo Credits: Brent Faulkner, The Musical Hype, Public Domain, Fair Use, Jeffrey Dahmer, John Wayne Gacy, Dennis Nielsen, Fritz Haarman]](https://i0.wp.com/themusicalhype.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/12/11-unsettling-songs-about-gay-serial-killers-1.jpg?fit=768%2C768&ssl=1)
11 Unsettling Songs About Gay Serial Killers features songs about infamous murderers Dahmer, Gacy, and Nilsen among others.
![Songs About Charles Whitman, The Infamous Tower Sniper [Photo Credits: Charles Whitman - 1963, Brent Faulkner, The Musical Hype]](https://i0.wp.com/themusicalhype.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/01/songs-about-charles-whitman-the-infamous-tower-sniper.jpg?fit=768%2C768&ssl=1)
Songs About Charles Whitman, The Infamous Tower Sniper features songs by Kinky Friedman, Insane Clown Posse & Macabre.
![Infernal Songs That Capture the Horror of Jeffrey Dahmer [Photo Credits: Brent Faulkner, The Musical Hype, Revere Senior High School, Milwaukee Police Department, Public Domain, People Magazine]](https://i0.wp.com/themusicalhype.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/01/infernal-songs-that-capture-the-horror-of-jeffrey-dahmer-2.jpg?fit=768%2C768&ssl=1)
Infernal Songs That Capture the Horrors of Jeffrey Dahmer features songs by Kesha, Macabre, Phoebe Bridgers, Slayer & Soulfly.
![“Songs That Reference Ian Brady & Myra Hindley” [Photo Credit: Beeswing, Crass, Rise Above, Sony, Thirsty Ear, Warner Music UK, Ian Brady & Myra Hindley Mugshots (Fair Use)]](https://i0.wp.com/themusicalhype.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/07/songs-that-reference-ian-brady-myra-hindley.jpg?fit=768%2C768&ssl=1)
“Songs That Reference Ian Brady & Myra Hindley”“ features music by Church of Misery, Richard Thompson, Sex Pistols, and The Smiths.