The eponymous character of The Decemberists' "The Rake's Song" relates how he murders his three children after their mother died in childbirth because he wants a new life, including beating his son to death and burning the body for daring to fight back, and concludes by saying that he doesn't regret it at all.
The main character of Creature Feature's "Such Horrible Things" talks of all the things he's done while stating outright that he should be killed gruesomely for having done it all. The way he muses about one incident with sinister chuckle says he enjoyed every moment.
The scariest part is what he did when he was 14. At first he says that nothing happened, but then he remembers "that one time" and chuckles. Cue a series of screams and about 50 seconds without any narration.
The titular boy from Warren Zevon's darkly humorous "Excitable Boy" is obviously insane from the start of the song, but as it goes on his actions become more psychotic until he rapes and kills his date to the Junior Prom. Then, after getting released from an asylum after 10 years, he digs up her grave and makes a cage out of her bones.
Lottie, the 14-year-old title character and narrator of Nick Cave's "Curse of Milhaven" (on Murder Ballads) is such a sadistic, prolific, and senseless killer that her actions are mistaken for some sort of curse upon the town. She is completely unrepentant, and only says that "she's been trying hard lately" before snapping and adding "fuck it, I'm a monster, I admit it."
When she finally gets caught, she makes it clear how much she really enjoyed killing:
They ask me if I feel remorse and I answer, "Why of course!
There is so much more I could have done if they had let me!"
Frank Zappa's "The Torture Never Stops" is basically an excuse for an extended guitar solo mixed with sounds of a woman gasping and moaning and crying out; a shout-out to Frank's teenaged years, when he actually got arrested for using similar sounds in a more erotic context. The lyrics, however, concern the Evil Prince and his stinking, fly-covered Dungeon of Despair, full of nameless prisoners whose crimes, if any, are unknown. As the Prince eats "a steaming pig", his "carving style is well-rehearsed". His only line is, "all men be cursed!" His servants are terrified: "Disagree? No one durst!" And even as he eats, the torture never stops. ("The Torture! The Torture!") Probably best not to ask about the "iron sausage".
The unnamed priest from the "Angels" music video by Within Temptation. He lures the main character into his house after she is seemingly abandoned on the side of the road by her companion. Bait the Dog ensues as he is established as a nice guy. The woman goes to his back room and discovers newspaper clippings of a bunch of other women. It is then revealed that he is really not a priest, but rather a Serial Killer who dresses up as trustworthy people (such as a doctor, a clown, and, of course, a priest) and lures women into his home to kill them. The killer then chloroforms the woman and takes her out into the desert to kill her by burying her alive next to the at least 16 graves of the other women he killed. Just when it looks like it's the end for her, she, her companion, and several other band members reveal themselves as angels (hence the title) and the souls of the women he killed come back to kill him. He is never given any reason for why he likes to bury women alive, leaving us to assume that he does it For the Evulz. Throughout the video, his eyes are shown to glow an unnatural red.
