Picture the scene: you’re lying in bed, just drifting off to sleep after a long Tuesday at work or school. You’re trying to unwind and fight off thinking about tomorrow’s to do, list, when you sense a twinge of something uneasy and a faint whiff of tension grips the air. Before you can gather what’s going on around you, your mouth is covered with brute force and you struggle for breath as you’re pinned down and no amount of strength or struggling can save you.
You’re flipped onto all fours and yet – horrifically – there’s nobody in the room. If the experience being raped by a malevolent, supernatural force in the most eye-watering manner possible sounds extreme, then turn the page, because it happens to be one of the cheerier themes being covered by Michigan death metallers The Black Dahlia Murder on their latest collection of morbid tales, . “That’s pretty much the tip of the iceberg!” booms frontman Trevor Strnad, sounding rather proud of himself.
“The last song is about asking our fans to kill their parents. It says that you’ve gotten tattoos and you piss them off regularly with your decision making, so now it’s time to kill them in the name of The Black Dahlia Murder! When we started out as a band and I was writing the lyrics for [debut album] , I would just write the darkest, most violent lyrics that I could. This is a return to those roots, but I wanted violence and more mysticism and so we took further strides into talking about the world .
