History Music / Ghoul

* ArtifactOfDoom: The Crystal Skull. Among other things, it turns a HollywoodNerd into the Gore Boar and is worshiped by a cult. [[MundaneUtility Ghoul use it to crack open walnuts]].

Several members of the band also perform in the group Impaled, with Sean and Ross in particular having sung and played their respective instruments on all albums from both groups. They are fairly similar stylistically, with the main difference being their more straightforward DeathMetal sound as opposed to GenreBusting death/thrash. Ross also performs bass and additional vocals in Music/{{Exhumed}}, having been a member during the making of their first album before leaving in 1999 and rejoining in 2016.

* MohsScaleOfRockAndMetalHardness: Consistently in the 8-10 range, though their surf rock songs drop to about a 5.

* FrenchJerk: Digestor (the character, not the actual band member) is from France, and is sung with a somewhat exaggerated French accent.

** "Numbskull" contains a potshot at Unique Leader Records, a technical death metal/djent record label.

* XMeetsY: Music/StormtroopersOfDeath meets Music/{{GWAR}}.

* Fermentor - Vocals, drums

* SelfDeprecation: The band portray themselves as being incredibly stupid in their lyrics.
* SpokenWordInMusic: Typically done with movie samples, though they sometimes include dialogue from the characters in the song as well. "Ghoul Hunter" in particular makes heavy use of this, being an extended monologue from the title character.

* CoverVersion: They've covered "Skull Beneath the Skin" by Music/{{Megadeth}} and "What a Wonderful World" by Louis Armstrong.

* MohsScaleOfRockAndMetalHardness: Consistently in the 8-9 range.

* SpokenWordInMusic: Typically done with movie samples, though they sometimes include dialogue from the characters in the song as well. "Ghoul Hunter" in particular makes heavy use of this.
* TakeThat: "Pleasant Screams/Forbidden Crypts" is about the band slaughtering a stereotypical Norwegian black metal band.

** Kreeg apparently gets beheaded by Dobrunkum in ''Dungeon Bastards.''

* BigBad: The Grand Basilisk for ''Transmission Zero'', Commandant Dobrunkum for ''Splatterthrash.''

See also Music/{{GWAR}}, who they have toured with in the past.

* BadassBiker: The Cannibals MC, led by the monstrous Kreeg.

* AlbumIntroTrack: All their albums from ''Splatterthrash'' onwards have an instrumental opening track.

* VillainSong: "Mind of the Mezmetron" for the Basilisk, "Word Is Law" and part of "Bringer of War" for Dobrunkum, "Kreeg" for Kreeg.

* ImAHumanitarian: Ghoul love eating people, and in "Blood Feast" they go on a drug fueled rampage through Creepsylvania and feast on its hapless citizens.

* TheDumberTheDrummer: According to his bio on the official website, Fermentor has a ''single digit'' IQ.

* {{Uberwald}}: Creepsylvania takes this to ridiculous extremes. Every single trope that could conceivably be associated with this setting is present, and the entire town is enclosed by a giant cemetery.

* CoverAlbum: ''Intermediate Level Hardcore''

* VillainProtagonist: Ghoul are a bunch of mutant cannibals who kill people for fun.

Ghoul is a very theatrical thrash/death metal band from Oakland, California. They are an AnonymousBand who claim to be four mutants hailing from the land of [[{{Uberwald}} Creepsylvania]], a country in Eastern Europe that lives up to every horror trope known to man. The band play old school style thrash metal with elements of death metal, grindcore, and occasionally surf rock and doom metal, and write about the land of Creepsylvania and their lives as ghouls, as they play heavy metal, mosh, and scare people. Over the course of their discography, they introduce a recurring cast of characters and even a sort of ongoing storyline,

** The Mutant Mutilator's bio on the website explicitly mentions that he will kill you if you listen to Music/CradleOfFilth.

Ghoul is a very theatrical thrash/death metal band from Oakland, California. They are an AnonymousBand who claim to be four mutants hailing from the land of [[{{Uberwald}} Creepsylvania]], a country in Eastern Europe that lives up to every horror trope known to man. The band play old school style thrash metal with elements of death metal, grindcore, and occasionally surf rock and doom metal, and write about the land of Creepsylvania and their lives as ghouls, as they play heavy metal, mosh, and scare people.

* TheDumberTheDrummer: According to his bio on the official website, Fermentor has a ''single digit'' IQ.