The world is disgusted and fascinated with serial killers and the crimes they commit. Here are 18 MORE Chilling Songs that capture the horror of serial killers.
How can some people be so cold-hearted and evil? That is the question that is often asked about serial killers. Serial killers both disgust the world as well as fascinate the world. The reason for the fascination is because it’s tough to believe anyone could be so disturbed and go to such measures to end innocent lives. The perversions of these killers have inspired numerous books, films, and music. Today, we’ll explore just a small sliver of songs about serial killers. Here are 18 MORE Chilling Songs About Serial Killers, Take 2. Without further ado, Chilling Songs About Serial Killers, Take 2.
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[/nextpage] [nextpage title=”1. Jane’s Addiction” desc=”‘Ted, Just Admit It…'” img=”16477″]1. Jane’s Addiction, “Ted, Just Admit It”
Album: Nothing’s Shocking, 1988 | Killer Referenced: Ted Bundy
Other Appearance(s): 12 Songs Written About or Inspired by Ted Bundy | Playlist
“Sex is violent.” In the hands of Ted Bundy, definitely. “Ted, Just Admit It…” is the lengthiest song off Nothing’s Shocking, the iconic sophomore album by hard rock/metal band Jane’s Addiction. Interestingly, the album’s titular lyric appears throughout the course of the record. Perry Farrell is on autopilot to say the least.
“Camera got them images / Camera got them all / Nothing’s shocking… / Showed me everybody / Naked and disfigured / Nothing’s shocking / And then he came / Now sister’s / Not a virgin anymore / Her sex is violent…”
Adding fuel to the fire is Jane’s Addiction in the prime, delivering a biting, malicious backdrop, not to mention incorporating Ted Bundy’s vocals into the mix.
[/nextpage] [nextpage title=”2. Slayer” desc=”‘213′” img=”15815″]2. Slayer, “213”
Album: Divine Intervention, 1994 | Killer Referenced: Jeffrey Dahmer
Other Appearance(s): An Eerie Soundtrack to Jeffrey Dahmer | Playlist
Slayer is a veteran metal band, forming in the early 80s. Who better to tackle the darkness of one Jeffrey Dahmer? They accomplish the task on their 1994 studio album, Divine Intervention, where “213” serves as the penultimate track.
“Erotic sensations tingle my spine / A dead body lying next to mine / Smooth blue-black lips / I start salivating as we kiss…/ Panting excitedly with my hands around your neck.”
Jesus! Backtracking, “213” sounds from eerie from the jump – a perfect soundtrack to the horrific actions by Jeffrey Dahmer. Throughout its course it’s filled with angularity, with the twists and turns matching the perversion which they sing about. In addition to the aforementioned lyrics from the end, there’s more atrociousness to partake of.
[/nextpage] [nextpage title=”3. Perfume Genius” desc=”‘Look Out, Look Out'” img=”17017″]“Driving compulsion morbid thoughts come to mind / Sexual release buried deep inside / Complete control of a prized possession / To touch and fondle with no objection / Lonely souls an emptiness fulfilled / Physical pleasure and addictive thrill / An object of perverted reality / And obsession beyond your wildest dreams.”
“A lifeless object for my subjection / An obsession beyond your imagination / Primitive instinct a passion for flesh…/ Sadistic acts a love so true / Absorbingly masticating a part of you.”
3. Perfume Genius, “Look Out, Look Out”
Album: Learning, 2010 | Killer Referenced: Mary Bell
Mary Bell killed young – before age 11. Perfume Genius gives the British serial killer of two young boys a song, describing her shameless crimes. The performance is by Perfume Genius is tender – it’s a ballad – but definitely disturbing.
“Mary, Mary Bell / With an uppercase M / All your neighbors know / What your mother sells / But you carved out a name / for yourself.”
Oh geez. Mary’s mom was a prostitute, which is what Perfume Genius references when he sings, “All your neighbors know / what your mother sells.” The carved part plays into the mutilation that Mary committed to victim Brian, who was just three years old. Interestingly, Mary Bell is free.
[/nextpage] [nextpage title=”4. Bloodbath” desc=”‘Eaten'” img=”16534″]4. Bloodbath, “Eaten”
Album: Nightmares Made Flesh, 2005 | Killer Referenced: Armin Meiwes
Other Appearance(s): The Armin Meiwes EP | Playlist
Swedish death-metal band Bloodbath jumps right into the darkness of Armin Meiwes on “Eaten.” Actually, it comes from the perspective of Bernd Brandes, the victim.
“I’ve had one desire since I was born / To see my body ripped and torn / To see my flesh devoured before my eyes / Only for you I volunteer as a human sacrifice.”
Wow. If Brandes’ desires weren’t captured on the verses and the pre-chorus section, Bloodbath lays it out there on the chorus.
“Eaten / My one desire, my only wish is to be / Eaten / The longer I live the more I’m dying to feel the pain…”
Fittingly, the music is as dark and disturbing as the lyrics. Loudwire named “Eaten” the 34th best metal song of the 21st century. It is pretty awesome – in a twisted sort of way.
[/nextpage] [nextpage title=”5. Candlemass” desc=”‘The Bleeding Baroness'” img=”16979″]5. Candlemass, “The Bleeding Baroness”
Album: Death Magic Doom, 2009 | Killer Referenced: Elizabeth Báthory
Other Appearance(s): A Bloody Soundtrack to Countess Elizabeth Báthory | Playlist
Candlemass ain’t new to this dark, damning metal thing. The Swedish doom metal band has been operation since the mid 80s. “The Bleeding Baroness” didn’t arrive until 2009, appearing on the album, Death Magic Doom. “The Bleeding Baroness” has three distinct sections. At the beginning and later on, it’s in a slowish triple meter. The guitars are incredibly dark and heavy in tone. The lyrics at the beginning only add to the enigma, foreshadowing what’s to come.
“Can you see her, slender and pale? / But so graceful she walks down the stairs / A perception of musk fills the air / The kiss of darkness, the baron’s own heir.”
The second distinct section is in good ole common time. It’s still heavy, capturing the self-indulgence and lust of Elizabeth.
“She’s so ruthless…evil, grotesque / In her glory…the Baroness…godless / Blood is precious…so delicious / Vampire white…ferociously vicious bleed.”
Then, there’s one more distinct section. There’s a change of pace on the chorus. The tempo slows, while the lead vocalist continues to sing with the utmost angst and passion.
“The Bleeding Baroness / Hours of slumber / Just before she will take you and make you wish that you’ve never been born / The Bleeding Baroness / Crimes of passion / She needs you and feeds you and bleeds you with the rise of the moon.”
Candlemass conjure up an exceptional tone poem for the Blood Countess, no questions asked.
[/nextpage] [nextpage title=”6. The Smiths” desc=”‘Suffer Little Children'” img=”17018″]6. The Smiths, “Suffer Little Children”
Album: The Smiths | Killers Referenced: Ian Brady & Myra Hindley
“But fresh lilaced moorland fields / Cannot hid the stolid stench of death.” Eerie. “Suffer Little Children” is the penultimate track from The Smiths’ 1984 self-titled debut. The Smiths were an English band from 80s, led by Morrissey, who continued his career as a solo artist. “Suffer Little Children” references the infamous child murders committed by Ian Brady (1938 – 2017) and Myra Hindley (1942 – 2002). These murders were known as the Moors murders.
Morrissey mentions the victims of Brady and Hindley by name.
“Lesley-Anne, with your pretty white beads / Oh John, you’ll never be a man / And you’ll never see your home again / Oh Manchester, so much to answer for / Edward, see those alluring lights? / Tonight, will be your very last night.”
Creepy. Interestingly, Ian Brady is left out of the name dropping. Myra Hindley, not so much.
[/nextpage] [nextpage title=”7. Blind Melon” desc=”‘Skinned'” img=”16718″]“Hindley wakes and Hindley says / Hindley wakes, Hindley wakes, Hindley wakes, and says: / ‘Oh, wherever he has done, I have done.’
7. Blind Melon, “Skinned”
Album: Soup, 1995 | Killer Referenced: Ed Gein
Other Appearance(s): A Twisted Soundtrack for Ed Gein: Butcher of Plainfield | Playlist
“When will I realize that this skin I’m in? Hey, it isn’t mine / And when will the kill be too much meat for me to hide on?”
Damn, how can two minutes be so disturbing? Blind Melon finds a way to make the brief “Skinned” just that. From the onset, Blind Melon do Ed Gein, the butcher of Plainfield, justice. But that’s the problem – we know how messed up the Butcher of Plainfield was.
“I’ll make a shoehorn outta your skin / I’ll make a lampshade of durable skin / And, oh, don’t you know what I’m always feeling able / When I’m sitting home and I’m carving out your navel? / I’m just a sitting here carving out your navel.”
Belly button fetish taken WAY too far.
[/nextpage] [nextpage title=”8. Deer Tick” desc=”‘Clownin’ Around'” img=”15920″]8. Deer Tick, “Clownin’ Around”
Album: Divine Providence, 2011 | Killer Referenced: John Wayne Gacy
Other Appearance(s): A Most Gruesome Soundtrack to John Wayne Gacy | Playlist
Providence, Rhode Island indie rockers Deer Tick get in on the John Wayne Gacy action with “Clownin’ Around.” “Clownin’ Around” appears on their 2011 album, Divine Providence. The first verse of the song perfectly captures the secret life of the clown, in all its perverseness.
“Though I’ve walked down a crooked path / That don’t mean it wasn’t cursed / My feeble heart was filled with wrath / My poison mind with thoughts perverse / And the devil is living in my basement / I’m trying hard to hid him from my wife / And I know someday I’m gonna have to face him / But for now I keep my secrets with the night.”
Amazingly, “Clownin’ Around” is in a major key. The overall sound can be described as pleasant, while the lyrics are eerie. Even so, drummer Dennis Ryan sings with an exuberance, which only amplifies the magnitude of Gacy’s sins. Naturally, there’s talk of pretty boys, the infamous crawl space, and the descent of the murderer into hell. One of the best touches is the clown music that appears at the end of the record. Fitting.
[/nextpage] [nextpage title=”9. Cradle of Filth” desc=”‘Cruelty…Orchids'” img=”16981″]9. Cradle of Filth, “Cruelty Brought Thee Orchids”
Album: Cruelty and the Beast, 1998 | Killer Referenced: Elizabeth Báthory
Other Appearance(s): A Bloody Soundtrack to Countess Elizabeth Báthory | Playlist
“Hear me now / All crimes should be treasured / If they bring thee pleasure somehow.” What a way to open things up, Cradle of Filth. Rather than dedicating only one song to the Blood Countess, Cradle of Filth dedicates an album with Cruelty and the Beast.
Focusing on “Cruelty Brought Thee Orchids,” clearly, Elizabeth Báthory is the star of the show. Poetic language characterizes her as both a woman of status and one chocked full of hellishness.
“Midst the whirl and daylight fauna / Of society at court / Elizabeth bedazzled, her presence sought applause / Though her torch lit shadow / Thrown upon damp cellar walls / Greeted nothing but despair / From slaves her nights enthralled.”
There’s more poetry – dark poetry of course.
“And to her dead reflection / ‘Twas as if her pallor gleamed / Like an angel’s warmed by candles / Where erotic stains had cleaved / Demons dragged this libertine / Lusts creaming for release / Upon the anointed flesh of maidens preened / As canvas for caprice.”
WOW.
[/nextpage] [nextpage title=”10. Tyler the Creator” desc=”‘Blow'” img=”16481″]10. Tyler, the Creator, “Blow”
Album: Bastard, 2009 | Killer Referenced: Ted Bundy
Other Appearance(s): 12 Songs Written About or Inspired by Ted Bundy | Playlist
“I just got one request, stop breathing.” Oh geez… Bastard was the world’s first introduction to Tyler, the Creator back in 2009. This is his debut, though most would consider Goblin to be his proper, official debut album (2011). Regardless, there’s a clear-cut, Ted Bundy inspired song, “Blow.” How do we know this – it came from the “horse’s mouth” in an interview with The Guardian in 2015:
“I wrote ‘Blow’ when I was reading about different people in American history. One of the people happened to be [the serial killer] Ted Bundy, and I wrote a song from his point of view.”
Expectedly, “Blow” is a trip. From the jump, Tyler, the Creator is twisted.
[/nextpage] [nextpage title=”11. Marilyn Manson” desc=”‘Choklit Factory'” img=”15819″]“If this was a game, I already know that I would come out winner / And I’m not bragging, I’mma be in her / But this b*tch really think that I’m ‘bout to buy her dinner / My steak good, I got a good cut like Splinter / … Lure her with expensive dinners and a nice bracelet / Leave the b*tch breathless, what the b*tch don’t know is / I’m a motherf*ckin’ sellout and a rapist…”
11. Marilyn Manson and the Spooky Kids, “Choklit Factory”
Album: After School Special, 1991 | Killer Referenced: Jeffrey Dahmer
Other Appearance(s): An Eerie Soundtrack to Jeffrey Dahmer | Playlist
Long before he was the Antichrist Superstar, Marilyn Manson recorded After School Special with the Spooky 
Kids. Interestingly, the four-song project is unavailable on CD or digitally – it was recorded on cassette. Nonetheless, there is an intriguing song about Dahmer called “Choklit Factory.” Like the Macabre track referenced earlier, Marilyn Manson and company brilliantly uses samples and lyrics from Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory.
There was strange was a man there, I think he was the Tinker
He was standing right behind me looking up at the factory
Just before he left he said
“Nobody ever goes in, and nobody ever comes out”
At one point, Manson sings the dialogue from the hellish, creepy boat ride Willy Wonka, the kids, and their parents take in the film. It’s fitting given the kind of person Jeffrey Dahmer was.
“Is it raining is it snowing? / Is a hurricane a blowing? / Not a speck of light is showing / So the danger must be growing / Are the fires of hell a glowing? / Is the grizzly reaper mowing? /Yes, the danger must be growing / For the rowers keep on rowing / Not showing signs of slowing / Any sign that they are slowing.”
All in all, “Choklit Factory” is dark and eerie to the nth degree.
“Peel back, the faces /We hide within our choklit shell / Some know indulgence /Some know and some go…”
At the end, on the final verse, Marilyn Manson explicitly mentions Dahmer:
[/nextpage] [nextpage title=”12. Exhumed” desc=”‘Instruments of Hell'” img=”17016″]“Jeff saved for later / His prizes of iniquity / Polaroids to covet / And bones to hide in 213.”
12. Exhumed, “Instruments of Hell”
Album: Platters of Splatter, 2004 | Killers Referenced: Albert Fish
Other Appearance(s): 10 Dark, Twisted Songs About Albert Fish | Playlist
“My instruments of hell will rend your mortal shell / On human viscera and meat I dine tonight / With my cleaver, knife, and blades your rear quarters are flayed / I’ll take it out of your hide.”
In regards to serial killers, we tend to focus on the more recent batch of deviants. However, some of the earlier killers set the tone. One of those was the infamous Albert Fish, who was a cannibal (gross). Also, among his three victims was a 10-year old girl named Grace Budd. What a sick mother…you get the point.
Death metal band Exhumed tackle the disgusting human being on the boisterous, indecipherable “Instruments of Hell.” The lyrics certainly aren’t decipherable without them in front of you. Nonetheless, even without access to them, the vibe is certainly hellish like Fish was. This is a frightening listen, that ends with the lyrics, “Your f*cking ass is mine.”
[/nextpage] [nextpage title=”13. Bathory” desc=”’33 Something'” img=”15916″]13. Bathory, “33 Something”
Killer Referenced: John Wayne Gacy | Album: Octagon, 1995
Other Appearance(s): A Most Gruesome Soundtrack to John Wayne Gacy | Playlist
Bathory lay claim to one of the most graphic songs on this list. “33 Something” is chaotic from the jump – madness exemplified. The band gets right into it – perhaps too much into it.
“Forcing his way into your ass / John Wayne Gacy is near / Flesh will rip and blood will flow / This death comes in your rear.”
Yeah…graphic. It gets worse:
“One of 33 Something / All who were raped and bled / The last thing you will ever hear / Before you’re f*cking dead is… / Drink my cum, take my rum / Blooded hole, twisted soul / Eat my shit, suck my dick / Writhe in pain and die insane.”
Raw to the nth degree. Equally chilling, though less explicit is how Bathory sums up the experience with the serial killer.
[/nextpage] [nextpage title=”14. Black Lips” desc=”‘Notown Blues'” img=”17015″]“Once you’ve played with Mr. Gacy / There’s no way out, no release / In the attic is hell, then in the / Basement you’ll find peace.”
14. Black Lips, “Notown Blues”
Album: We Did Not Know the Forest Spirits Made the Flowers Grow | Killer Referenced: Kenneth Bianchi & Angelo Buono (Hillside Stranglers)
Most of the bands on our serial killer lists tend to be metal bands, specifically death metal bands. Black Lips are one of the few exceptions – they’re a garage rock band. Naturally, being a garage rock band, the sound is messy, filled with distortion, and sounding anachronistic. That’s the case with “Notown Blues,” which references the infamous Hillside Stranglers, cousins Kenneth Bianchi and Angelo Buono. These two dudes did not play around.
The lyrics are nothing special, but they do get straight to the point.
“I’m the Hillside Strangler / That’s who I am / Running around the land / Killing everyone I can / I’m the Hillside Strangler / That’s who I am / Gonna roll around the land / Killing everyone I can.”
Yep, that’s about the size of it.
[/nextpage] [nextpage title=”15. Church…Misery” desc=”‘Plainfield'” img=”15818″]
15. Church of Misery, “Plainfield”
Album: Early Works Compilation, 2011 | Killer Referenced: Ed Gein
Other Appearance(s): A Twisted Soundtrack for Ed Gein: Butcher of Plainfield | Playlist
Ah, we love some Church of Misery at The Musical Hype! They’ve appeared on the majority of our serial killer playlists for good reason – they seem to have a song for every killer we’ve profiled. Mr. Gein gets some of their affection as well on “Plainfield.” The lyrics certainly suit Ed to say the least. Like Slayer, Church of Misery couldn’t dare miss an opportunity to mention the dead skin mask. Fittingly, the Japanese metal heads set things up with some background info and an extended, dark, malicious instrumental before the singing commences.
[/nextpage] [nextpage title=”16. Macabre” desc=”‘Fritz Haarman der Metzger'” img=”16536″]“Lonely old blood farmer / Resides in deserted house / Grave robber, body collector / Fall from sanity’s grace / Digs up a bone and human body… / Put on your ‘Dead skin mask’ / Now’s the time to perform the rite.”
16. Macabre, “Fritz Haarman der Metzger”
Album: Murder Metal, 2003 | Killer Referenced: Fritz Haarman
It wouldn’t be a serial killer playlist without Macabre! Then again, the doom metal band were missing in action on A Bloody Soundtrack to Countess Elizabeth Báthory | Playlist. Nonetheless, Macabre has rewarded us with a number of songs about these deranged mofos. This time they tackle an early serial killer that has few songs to his name: Fritz Haarman.
Perhaps Haarman became overshadowed by the other homosexual killers like Dahmer and Gacy. Maybe it’s because he was German as opposed to American. Regardless, he definitely shouldn’t be left out or underrated in the least. He killed 27. Furthermore, his heinous crimes included sexual assault, dismemberment, and biting into victims’ throats.
“Fritz Haarman der Metzger” serves as the closing song on the Macabre’s 2003 album, Murder Metal. The lyrics are in German, fittingly.
“Mein liebes Kind, pass besser auf / Fritz Haarmann sucht nach dir / Er wird dich aufschlitzen, dein Blut verspritzen / zum stillen der hungrigen Gier / Warte noch ein Weilchen / Warte noch ein Weilchen / Dann kommt Haarmann auch zu dir / Mit dem Hackebeilchen / Mit dem Hackebeilchen / Macht er Leberwurst aus dir.”
The translation goes a little something like this:
“My dear child, pass better / Fritz Haarmann is looking for you / He’ll slash you, squirt your blood / To the quiet of hungry greed / Wait a while / Wait a while / Then Haarmann comes to you / With the hoe, With the hoe / He makes liver sausage out of you.”
While the track lasts nearly 13 minutes, most of the meat (bad word choice) occurs within the first five minutes. There is some more excitement at the tail-end.
[/nextpage] [nextpage title=”17. Evile ” desc=”‘Bathe in Blood'” img=”16983″]17. Evile, “Bathe in Blood”
Album: Enter the Grave, 2007 | Killer Referenced: Elizabeth Báthory
Other Appearance(s): A Bloody Soundtrack to Countess Elizabeth Báthory | Playlist
English thrash metal band Evile don’t fuck play around. Formed in 2004, the band was previously known as Metal Militia. Elizabeth Báthory gets a fitting soundtrack from them on “Bathe in Blood.” It seems as if the jagged, biting guitars never let up. The assertive lead vocals of Matt Drake, fueled by angst, capture the bloodlust of Báthory superbly. A frenetic pace midway through “Bathe in Blood” exemplifies the craziness and perverse mindset of the Countess. The lyrics, furthermore, paint the picture of a truly sick killer.
“Kill, bathe in blood of the pure / Fresh youthful meat / No hope of feeling from me / Your death will be sweet / Drained of your freedom and life / Stripped of your will / I’ll keep you bleeding for me / You are my thrill.”
Of course, there’s more:
[/nextpage] [nextpage title=”18. Allusondrugs” desc=”‘Ted, What’s the Porn Like…'” img=”16473″]“Terror on your deathly face / Blood spills from your wounds / Fate has sentence you to death / Your gift I consume / Victim of violent torture / What was yours is now mine / I tear the beauty from your flesh / I feed on the divine.”
18. Allusondrugs, “Ted, What’s the Porn Like in Heaven”
Album: Allusondrugs, 2014 | Killer Referenced: Ted Bundy
Other Appearance(s): 12 Songs Written About or Inspired by Ted Bundy | Playlist
Allusondrugs – what a band name. But, we’re not here to discuss the UK band itself. This is all about Ted Bundy. On their self-titled EP, Allusondrugs do Bundy justice. With raucous, energetic, and intentionally pitchy vocals, Bundy’s excuses for his actions are put on blast.
“We spoke to God / Jesus loves you / But we need a story to sell / Just blame it all on your porn Ted / Upstairs hiding in a Christian home.”
This song feels like the companion piece to the aforementioned “Ted, Just Admit It.” While Jane’s Addiction focused on cameras with evidence, Allusondrugs focus on the BS excuse given by Bundy.
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