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Close your eyes, look deep in your soul, step outside yourself, and let your mind go, frozen eyes stare deep in your mind as you die...

  • "Dead Skin Mask", a song inspired by murderer Ed Gein, can be quite unsettling, especially towards the end, as the lyrics are interspersed with the frightened cries of one of Gein's young victims. Reading about Ed Gein himself makes the song even creepier:
    Hello, hello, Mr. Gein
    Mr. Gein
    Lemme out of here, Mr. Gein
    Mr. Gein, I don't wanna play anymore, Mr. Gein
    Mr. Gein, it's not any fun anymore
    I don't want to play anymore, Mr. Gein
    Mr. Gein, I want out of here, Mr. Gein
    Lemme out NOW!
  • On that note, "Angel of Death" is a song about Josef Mengele, a Nazi "doctor" who performed awful experiments on people during the Holocaust. The song describes some of them in extremely graphic detail, making this possibly their most terrifying song for those who aren't used to their sort of music. And if the freaky Metal Scream heard at 25 seconds c.a. during the song didn't settle you off...
  • Also, "213" is about Jeffrey Dahmer (a serial murderer famed for copulating with corpses) and contains such delightful lyrics as "Erotic sensations tingle my spine / a dead body lying next to mine / Smooth blue-black lips / I start salivating as we kiss..."
  • "Unit 731" is about the eponymous Japanese unethical medical experiment group set up during the Second World War.
  • "Psychopathy Red" is a track that is focused on Russian serial killer Andrei Chikatilo, who committed the sexual assault, murder and mutilation of a minimum of 52 women and children between 1978 and 1990.
  • "Hell Awaits" The first minute of it has a Reversed-Demon-Chant of "JOIN US! JOIN US! JOIN US!" over and over again.
  • The special edition of World Painted Blood came with a short animated film called Playing with Dolls about a man who, as a child, witnesses the murder of his mother. When he becomes an adult, he becomes a serial killer who murders women, cuts them up, and stitches their body parts together to create a lookalike of his mother. Then his creation comes to life.
  • "South of Heaven" is pretty unsettling both musically and lyrically. Something just feels slightly off about its atmosphere.
  • The video for "Eyes of the Insane" is a first-person view of war reflected though the iris of a soldier. Visions of explosions and dead people are relatively scary, but when the soldier is caught in an explosion, he closes his eye as the dust covers him. He wakes up to find that he is being operated on. The way the eye looks during his surgery is incredibly disturbing and what's more, they send his ass back on the field. Naturally, he is Driven to Suicide, which is actually shown reflected in his eye. You see the reflection of his military base swing back and forth and can hear the creaks of the rope as he hangs.
  • "Jihad" is downright disturbing. Do not let the rather catchy intro fool you, the song then slams into frenzied thrash and manic yelling from Araya. The lyrics? They're about the 9/11 terrorist attacks... from the viewpoint of one of the terrorists. The song was disturbing enough to get the album banned in India.
    • To throw some more gasoline on the fire, the anti-American speech at the end was translated verbatim from an actual piece of al-Qaeda propaganda.
  • "Gemini" is one of the band's most atmospheric and truly sinister sounding tracks. An original track off the band's punk tribute album "Undisputed Attitude," its lyrics focus on the Zodiac Killer, starting off as a slow-groove sludge/doom style dirge before speeding up to become a more traditional Slayer song. Araya's singing here is calm yet deeply menacing, as if he was hunting someone down and is about to close in on them.
    "Endure the pain / You know my name / I am your soul insane"

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