Serial Killer / Music

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• The Rolling Stones' "Midnight Rambler" is sung from the point of view of one of these.
• The Beatles's song "Maxwell's Silver Hammer" about Maxwell Edison, a crazed kid that murders with said hammer a girl, his teacher, and the judge who took his case, in front of a full courtroom.
• Steely Dan's "Midnight Cruiser"
• David Bowie gave us "Running Gun Blues" on the album The Man Who Sold the World, which is narrated by a Sociopathic Soldier who won't let a cease fire get in the way of a perfectly good killing spree.
• Talking Heads' "Psycho Killer"
• Everything by Macabre, or really any Death Metal band.
  • Especially Cannibal Corpse, e.g. "Stripped, Raped, and Strangled".
• A rather famous example is the song "Dead Skin Mask" by Slayer. "213", about Jeffrey Dahmer, is a another. "Angel of Death" could count as well, since Mengele racked up quite a body count. Also, "Psychopathy Red" from World Painted Blood is about Russian killer Andrei Chikatilo.
• Radiohead's "Climbing Up The Walls".
• Swans, a band never known for their cheery subject matter, have two songs actually from the perspective of serial killers: "Young God" (Ed Gein, who inspired Psycho) and "Killing For Company" (Dennis Andrew Nilsen).
• Early Industrial music in general, but the Power Electronics Sub-Genre in particular (Whitehouse are notorious for this).
• Implied in Scott Walker's "The Electrician", the title character of which is a professional torturer.
• Dead Kennedys' "I Kill Children".
• Sunn O)))'s "Bathory Erszebet."
• Band Of Susans' "Elizabeth Stride (1843-1888)" follows the last minutes of Jack the Ripper's third victim.
• Sufjan Stevens "John Wayne Gacy, Jr". Defines Lyrical Dissonance.
• Ozzy Osbourne has several, most notably "Little Dolls" and "No More Tears".
• Alice Cooper's 2008 concept album "Along Came A Spider" is all about a fictional serial killer who wraps his victims in silk and cuts off one their legs to construct a flesh spider. His rampage is quelled when he falls in love with his eighth victim and finds Jesus.
• Beck's cheery and catchy "Girl" takes the POV of one.
• Rapper TechN9ne's song "Trauma" is written from the point-of-view of a serial killer, boasting about how evil he is and that he's more deranged than "Jeffrey Dahmer and Charles Manson combined".
• GWAR is like this ALOT.
• A Pale Horse Named Death has a song called "Serial Killer". There's also "Killer by Night".
• The Animated Music Video for Metallica's "Here Comes Revenge" has what looks to be some sort of anthropomorphic hyena murdering female animal people and mounting their heads up like a hunter.
• "Serial Killer" by "Rage" is about this trope.
  • A russian cover by "Insidious One" exists.
• Vocaloid Rin Kagamine's "Fear Garden" features a Mad Artist obessed with human hands who stalks her "friends" until she can get them alone, then proceeds to murder them with a knife and rip their arms off, planting them in a garden.
• Eminem's Slim Shady character is often portrayed as a serial killer, starting from The Marshall Mathers LP. Reaches its apex with Relapse, a Concept Album about a drug-addled Slim going on a killing spree. A few specific songs are "Kill You", "Same Song and Dance", "Stay Wide Awake" and "Framed".
• The Men That Will Not Be Blamed for Nothing wrote "Occam's Razor" about Jack the Ripper, or rather, his mythification. "Baby Farmer" is about the less-famous but deadlier Amelia Dyer.
• Gucci Mane has a song called "Serial Killers" in which he compares himself and people who he grew up around in the gang life to serial killers.
• the Therapy? song "Trigger Inside" includes the controvercial lyric "I know how Jeffrey Dahmer feels", which Andy Cairns has explained stemming from having an identical childhood experience of giving a teacher a gift at school only to see them throw it in the trash later.
• "Suffer Little Children" by The Smiths is about the Moors Murders, partly inspired by the victims being only few years younger than Morrisey was at the time the crimes happened, and him developing a dark fascination with the subject.
• The subject of "Black Friday" by Megadeth.
  "Blood-thirsty demon who's stalking the street
  I hack up my victims like pieces of meat"
• The title track from Slipknot's Iowa is about a serial killer reminiscing about his first and favorite victim. He is also not all there in the head.
  "You are my first
  I can barely breathe, I find you fascinating
  You are my favorite
  Lay you down to sleep, it's all that I can do to stop, love"

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