Favorite Lyrical Themes in Extreme Metal

[Blue_Jay]

My favorite lyrics are satanic lyrics. Although those are my favorite kind of lyrics because of the suspense they add in the song, songs about politics, religion, nature, appocolypse (or whatever it is spelled, Hatebreeder is really good at fixing sentences), and VIKINGS BABY! Lyrics with no meaning or I can't understand them turns me off from a band. Also some death lyrics annoy me, like the ones from bands like Death and Grave.

 

[Killbot]

I like lyrics about sewers in crazy Eastern European languages.

 

[Zephyrus]

political lyrics would be my favorite overall - but that's more thrash than extreme metal

I think political lyrics are legit in extreme metal. Dying Fetus anyone?

 

[cookiecutter]

GORE, even when done badly/in broken english.

 

[Personified Hatred]

I voted natural philosophy but I don't often read lyrics... It's the music that counts.

 

[Susperia]

Hhaha Viking/Norse mythology is winning, and yet most of you here don't accept it as a subgenre.

 

[Killbot]

That's probably something to do with the definition of genres not being based on lyrical themes.

 

[CF87]

That's probably something to do with the definition of genres not being based on lyrical themes.

Exactly.

 

[ohiogrinder]

political stuff

but I voted war, closest thing to it.

 

[Susperia]

That's probably something to do with the definition of genres not being based on lyrical themes.

Or so you say.



So Gore isn't actually a subgenre?
Death Metal was originally coined because the bands lyrics were primarily about what? DEATH!

 

[Killbot]

So Gore isn't actually a subgenre?

Correct.

 

[King Richard]

liar

 

[Kreator/Destroyer]

i like lyrics about war but also lyrics about isolation and slowly losing sanity are always fun

 

[hibernal_dream]

Chocolate metal is the best

 

[Life Sucks]

It depends on the music. For extreme doom or melodeath, I like depressive lyrics. For death metal, I like philosophical lyrics, intelligent lyrics about death, lyrics about history or war, etc. I'm not too big on gore lyrics or satanic lyrics, but the only kind of lyrics I really hate with a passion are lyrics about girls/relationships/sex.

 

[Life Sucks]

Chocolate metal is the best

only if you're a chick.

 

[More Murder]

These are lyrical themes, not genres. Anyway, I picked viking/norse mythology.

 

[metal_wrath]

the only kind of lyrics I really hate with a passion are lyrics about girls/relationships/sex.

agreed

 

[Wires & Waves]

all metal lyrics suck

all of them

 

[Hell Awaits Us All]

all metal lyrics suck

all of them

based on what??