10 Most Disturbing Metal Songs That Will Make You Sick
4. Cattle Decapitation - Forced Gender Reassignment
Who in the Hell?:
Cattle Decapitation are a popular band in metal music. They perform in the typical deathcore and grindcore genres while also elevating their music by writing in the technical death metal form. The band name is more than mere shock value, the initial 1996 line-up was made up of vegetarians and proponents of animal rights.
Sinister Sounds:
In terms of death metal, the track is oddly easy listening.
Publishable Lyrics:
"Now you're awake, just in time as I make this incision / The next step in your sex revision / A slice up the shaft and around the corona / Unsheathed penile muscle exposing the urethra."
Censored Storyline:
Despite beginning with the rather philosophical lines "Fear breeds contempt in the heart of a man / One has to question this common trait / Why do we hate what we don't understand?," this track has more interest in scrotums than Socrates. As the title suggests, the songs victim is forced to endure forced gender reassignment surgery. Here the medicalisation of the crude surgery makes the whole exercise seem cold rather than sterile. Even if we rationalise the victim as a misogonist, Cattle Decapitation's proposed methods would be too extreme for even Valerie Solanas.