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Looking into The Twilight Zone episode, “To Serve Man”, I discovered a great deal beyond that airing, and not just the original short story of acclaim. A quick summary is that aliens come to earth and turn it back into a lush, producing garden, cure illnesses and give free energy, etc (“serving’ man) yet their true intent is discovered by translating one of their texts, and the pithy, oft-cited quote, “It’s a cookbook!”
The short story was linked to another called, Under The Skin, the movie of which starred Scarlett Johanssen (anyone ever count how many aliens she’s played?) It’s in a similar vein, ” In anger, she demands to see what happens to the vodsel (human cow) during “processing,” where she watches as his tongue is cut out and he is castrated. Due to her claustrophobia of the subterranean structure, she has never seen this, and is shocked and disappointed at how fast it goes”. Given their goals, it’s hardly surprising that they create geldings (gender reassignment as well as other sterilizing procedures) – they are tamer, fatter, cannot reproduce, and the meat tastes cleaner due to lack of male hormones.
This, I found particularly disturbing: a death metal band from San Deigo who made a song of the same title and connotation: Cattle Decapitation (this is loaded with meaning as well) has produced a list of albums and the covers and song titles alone tell a story. Reading the lyrics here and there makes it plain they are insiders and true believers, and it lays plain why things are being directed as they are. Warning, this gets graphic and nasty.
First, I’ll just show you some of their cover artwork, the primary of which is the To Serve Man pic you see above. 
Their songtitles also tell a tale, here are some of the more blatantly colorful, as a quick snip:
“Testicular Manslaughter”2:502.”I Eat Your Skin”1:543.”Writhe in Putrescence”3:164.”Land of the Severed Meatus””The Prophets of Loss”Paul McGuire2020″Bring Back the Plague”Death Atlas—2021″Finish Them”Nicholas Vidler2023″We Eat Our Young”TerrasiteDavid Brodsky”Scourge of the Offspring””A Photic Doom””Absolute Destitute”4:359.”The Great Dying II”1:0510.”Finish Them”2:5511.”With All Disrespect”
“To Serve Man”
We have arrived
To infest and thrive
Upon billions of lives
With forks and spoons and knives
To return what was
Before Eve and Adam
Babylon and Sodom
The trampling foot of man
Men, women and children shall be strung
Sliced from hands to feet
Innards save for a tasty treat
And beaten profusely to tenderize the meat
AAAAAHHHHH! The stench of the populace!
Millions of humans hung upon hooks
Suspended in deep freeze
Subzero, sterile environment
Keeps meat tender and lean
Choice cuts from the slaughter-
Husband, mother, daughter
Dead families kept together
Their hides made into leather
Surprisingly multiple uses for something so useless
Your gluttonous repugnancy-a delightful delicacy
Crepitus and malignancy now part of the recipe
Harshness and voracity
Ingredients of my delivery
To serve the public
The helpless frozen subjects
(YES, they are putting diseased human meat into our food supply and charging us a premium for the privilege.)
‘Forced Gender Reassignment” graphically describes switching a Christian husband’s and wife’s genders (apparently without sedation) and contains this telling footnote (the song is sold as an anger towards those who don’t buy into “born this way” but then they blurt the truth)
An evolution of the self-destructing human parasite
A revolution, an advancement of human technology
A dissection, of the birth-given sexual organs
A solution, to the world’s overpopulation
“Body Farm”
Ah, the irony in being a killer, yet in the crime-solving community, I am a pillar
A corpse turns to mulch with a good roto-tiller…
I kill for the good of man The cadaver now giving life harmoniously
A God – This makes me a god
“Photic Doom” is extremely telling, I won’t quote it, but it may be instructive to look up lyrics if you wish. Kind of the final plan. I haven’t read all their lyrics, but I’d imagine each one tells a portion of this same story.
“Prophets of Doom”
The beat is alive, inside of me
Try to deprive, your will to be
A yearning for shelter from deadly storms
I feast on your drive, your energy
You somehow contrive to set me free
A despising heller in many forms
Unseen parasite, with no reprieve
I feed out of spite, on your belief
I’m casting my shadow on tomorrow
I eat at your pride, your self esteem
Deceive and I lie, your soul redeem
For I am the master of your sorrow
Everyone’s the same
They all believe they’ll change
But I decide when it’s over
Coz I control your life
Your ignorance is rife
You’ll never break these chains
“Lifestalker”
We’re coming to kill you
Your name is engraved on the knife
Reaping, controlling, absorbing your life
Look! How we’ve locked ourselves in a self-made hell from
Which there is no redemption
Through the rise of technology, we lost our “humanity”
Trash heap lobotomy, self-imposed sodomy
We are undertakers, rapists and future failures
Inter the world with our filth, from day one –
Should have been killed
We rise to the slaughter…
…of the essence of our being
A species that boasts of overdose
That takes pride in deriding all other forms of life
Even our own
“Finish Them”
Fire on the horizon
Incineration of a species
The cremation of a disease
With flame and gases reducing to ashes
Entire nations, all human communities
Poisoning everything, stripped of all immunities
This is the way we deal with our own kind
Self-destructing power of the human mind
Burn, back from whence you came
Return to carbon once again
Now we see that the true evil has a face
Now we know the devil is the human race
Cursed be our society
Which finds its end rather dramatically
Part anthropologic, part organically
The course of natures knows no amnesty
On the smoldering horizon
The fumes of sulfur choking out Poseidon
The ocean boiling its contents
Mother Nature on the offense
Sterilizing the earth with flame
Beating humanity at its own game
Their footprint now buried in the soot
Of a pale horse with a cloven hoof
We purge with fire and we finish them
We light the fuse and we diminish them
We fight the fire with a nuclear flash
Deconstruct everything that’s built to last
We f*ck biology’s eye sockets
We skull f*ck futures for our profits
We’d kill the universe given the chance
Emptied of time by its draining sand
I may be wrong, but I take most modern “entertainment” as instructive. As grotesque as this band is, I do appreciate how forthright they are in explaining their reasons – that’s usually the largest thing missing or twisted for me in most stories, because they so often invert whom they see as the protagonist/antagonist (although modern stories are vastly more “sympathy for the devil” than in even recent past). They prey on us, drive us to our own destruction, murder anyone who sees through them and dares to speak, then despise us for it and wish to obliterate us all, but to add insult, they want us to inanely go along and even demand it.
There is also a “serving” which is a reference to a meting out of “justice”, which plays into this. They despise themselves nearly as much as they do us.
I’m surprised it took so long for metal albums to pop up here. I absolutely love this band. But, Check this out. This video creeps me out.
Archspire – Drone Corpse Aviator
https://youtu.be/MlnGYcMpxgU
I actually got to interview these guys back in 2014. They’re regular dudes. There’s no super secret elite ties here. If anything the imagery is supposed to scare you. They’re death metal and probably doing it on purpose.
Yeah, I had to laugh at the reach of using metal in this context. The whole point is to freak people out. And they’re typically the nicest people ever. Very much embodying their shadows!
I love Death Metal and I liked your comment.
Cattle Decapitation started as a vegan death metal band. Hence Humanure. They have been around for decades now and have signed to a major label. Lots of $ behind this now. I really do like CD they’re a great band.
I have learned more about religion and history by listening to underground black metal bands since the late 90s.
Metal is getting popular, and here in the last 5 years I’ve noticed a huge trend. It’s also about the same time I opened my eyes and I started to notice things.
The bigger the label, the more f****d up the stuff gets. But that’s just like the music industry.
That’s BS. They get a Canadian grant to do this stuff. There’s no $ in it. You want me to ask Travis how much he makes from this? You’ll wonder why they’re even doing it. Because it’s for the love of the music.
Also no. Metal is not getting more popular. In fact, the genre has never been less popular than it is now. Hip Hop is the most popular genre in the US according to Nielsen. Touring is getting too expensive for bands to even do it. We’re going to see less touring, less album releases – The genre is not doing so well. I worked in the industry as music critic from 2010-2020 and I could see the writing on the wall.
I agree, metal has been going down hill and less and less popular. Just look at the festivals, it used to be something like power metal or black metal had enough of a following to have tons of concerts exclusive to that subgenre, now they all play together because they can’t survive otherwise. I can still get down with stoner/doom but all other stuff is so played out at this point
There’s an entire genre called “orthodox black metal” that has taught me a lot. History and religion.
Bands like Deathspell Omega, Merrimack, Funeral Mist, Antaeus, Archerontas, Arckanum, Glorior Belli, Nightbringer, Thy Darkened Shade, etc.
Yes, I used to absolutely love RUSH. They had an awesome, dynamic sound, profound lyrics which taught me and made me think. Didn’t stop them from making the transhumanist albums then glorifying our annihilation. I used to really like metal bands too, like Iron Maiden and blues rock artists like Stevie Ray Vaughan. My older brother still does.
I’ve learned a great deal from authors like Stephen King, demented as he is, his stories are all instructional and prophetic.
I’ve read more lyrics by this band than I’ve posted here. If you’re aware of them, you may also be aware that they hate humanity, including themselves. Some of them are so plain there’s no way to excuse it as a PETA-backed vegan group just mad about treatment of animals.
Pied Piper, is all I’m saying. It wouldn’t work if the music wasn’t thrilling and (for those of us into meaningful stories) the lyrics not meaningful.
I can’t even claim to not still like these and other artists, authors, etc, I just don’t allow myself to listen to them anymore, except rarely, and when I do, I realize things I didn’t back in the day. I suppose that’s what most of this site is about – awareness of what we’re actually hearing and seeing.
Good s**t. Deathspell actually got canceled though. I used to work with Acherontas and their PR.
Apparently I upset someone. I mean, Deathspell got cancelled for what some called “alt-right messages” in their latest album. Of course, Deathspell like most black metal has always been satanic, nihilistic, anti-religion, etc. That’s just the schtick.
Religious examples do exist though. We have Antestor and A Hill To Die Upon for example. Though not black metal, Extol is also recommended.
I’ve met the guys personally. I think they’re gonna laugh at this one. You know those guys don’t even make a lot of money from the band, right? They get a Canadian grant just to be able to do the music.
I’m not concerned what they make. And if they get a grant, then they aren’t doing it for the love. Grants come with stipulations. What’s Canadian govt’s interest in this music anyway?
There’s no big conspiracy, it’s just an art grant that people over there apply for. You don’t understand the costs of doing a record, I guess? You have to pay for every step of the way with no guarantee you’ll get anything in return. You have no idea how many bands I have talked to that just gave it up because they couldn’t even break even. There is some profit, but it is so small it wouldn’t matter. It might cost you $1000 to record one song in a quality studio but then someone just pays $1 for that song online. Think about that for a second.
Honestly, this is hilarious. Metal is the only genre where the whole purpose is to upset or freak people out. When that mess started showing up in pop I got concerned, but metal has always been like this. The elite consider metal music trash for trashy people they consider a threat and want to get rid of. It’s music for the useless eaters. Many songs in the genre are actually against the elite, some songs I’ve written myself. Check out the new Hypocrisy album, for instance – The lyrics there are dead on.
Weird I would promote a record that literally calls out the elites and people would downvote me. I’ve listened to Worship dozens of times. There are so many incredibly relevant songs on there, which you’re going to recognize the themes almost immediately when you put it on. The band was getting called out for spreading “conspiracy theories” as the same with Iced Earth. We all know what happened there. If there is any genre on the planet calling out these evil elites, it’s us in the metal genre. A lot of guys are not for all this world control and brainwash regardless of personal beliefs. A lot of us believe in freedom, not slavery.
Also High on fire just had a hit piece by npr not too long ago because of Matt pike’s lyrics inspired by David Icke type imagery
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There are a lot of open Neo nasi supporters and symbolism in the metal world; calls for mass murder, mutilation and generally open gore and death worshipping.
Having known plenty of metal musicians and fans, sure many of them are just upper middle class white/latino kids with unresolved issues that get a thrill from upsetting mommy and daddy or associating themselves with being edgy/dark. However, there is a significant contingent in the genre of hardcore, true practicing satanists, and nasi genocidal psychopaths.
I received multiple thinly veiled death threats from several of them, choosing names of well known Neo nasi and satanic “bands,” when I began writing the Monkeys series, I didn’t take that lightly.
I also encourage to read some lyrics from mercyful fate
King Diamond himself is a very superstitious man. He likes to write about that stuff, but he’s cautioned people not to mess with the occult. You’ll find interviews about it.
I have a brother who is completely demonically possessed and has been since he was a young teen. He would blast songs from similar groups to those you’re describing such as Cannibal Corpse and Morbid Angel. It was absolutely horrific. I remember the horror if having my senses bombarded with that evil racket and my parents under the demonic spell unable or unwilling to stop it.
It’s called flow-etry. They’re just writing their poetry, in trance state. In in some subset form, what is meant to be said,, does come through. It’s got a lot of meaning,, but that’s also why metal is metal. A lot of the heavier bands are like this. Yes,, they put it in your faces,, the elites,,, but this metal band could very well be writing in the trance state and not know exactly what they are harnessing via their power of writing. That’s why music and artists are so controlled. Their is power to pen and paper and power in the voice once opened.
There is power to paper and pen and voice once opened.**
At the same time,,, it hurts to think,, that this band is able to be so open and honest,, but I’m thankful that they’re able to. 🙏 I appreciate them. 🙏
I wrote a paper in college about the graphic nature of death metal album covers and their obscene lyrics. If you enjoyed the demented taste of the band you just mentioned have a look at Cannibal Corpse, which are as old as Slayer. Now those guys, they practically started that s**t.