Exhumed

Terminal condition, rampant infection spread too far - leaving many scars Cadaverous contagion, to necrotize, slash, and mar - blood now black as tar Repugnant epidemic, deadened hearts beat as one - keeping time with death's drum The rotting now systemic, the...

(In which a shocking discovery is made in West Port, Edinburgh, the repellant nature and lurid details of which stun and shock the city to its very core) “...a most extraordinary circumstance that took place on Friday night, the 31s​ t​ October 1828, in a H...

A crush course through your cranium Trial and error, wear and tear, through your cerebellum Hacking - slashing Saw through bone, tear through gristle Carve my way through muscle tissue Cleaving - gouging A lesson in pathology I deconstruct your anatomy For yo...

The ashen grey muse commissions a new verse A song to while away the long sojourn in the hearse Yet all of us who danse macabre to these dour, dismal tunes Become cold, grim and hard as the dirt upon the tomb... In darkened dirges death's knell peals out it's...

Upon a knife's edge, your sanity stretched Nerves wrenched on the rack A step beyond the ledge, sends you headlong into madness With no turning back... Arcs of light to penetrate you - stabbing picqueristic feints Gleaming blight to perforate you - throbbing...

Pulverization- bones snap, break, and rend Trituration- truncheon falls again and again Castigation- dumbstruck, dazed and contused Excruciation- blackened, bludgeoned, blinded, and bruised As hammer to anvil As hammer… As hammer to anvil To anvil… Ago...

Consumption of flesh as dead tissue is uncreated, Rancid smoke effervesces as your torpid corpse is cremated, Another inert mutilated mess is sent up in flames, An expedient way to obscure the facts, figures and names... Flames unmake flesh and bone as all sem...

The malaciated and olid viscera A causatum of the forensic dissection My task is to lavage the morgue I'm the morbid anatomy technician... I dispose of fetid organs and refuse With fervor I find I am embroiled Punctiliously picking up pathological pelf...

The mouldy earth crumbles under my pick-axe, The hardened turf gives up its morbid harvest, Cracking the earthen crypt with my rusted spade, Disinterrment of the pieces from where they lay to rest... The arduous task reveals my unhealthy reward, A long dead st...

Reheat your entrails Sauté the frothing slop Extract your intestines Macerate the stenching glop Stir fry your gall bladder Prepare the chewy meat Splattered organs and gore Festering mealtime treat... Microwaved slushy grime, Steaming oozing chyme... Empty...

I scrawled an ode to this mortal coil In scarlet upon your back I gnarled in code with dreadful toil A parting verse so black... Ivory skin streched out before me In frozen fields of pallid grace Livid eyes rolled back and silently implored me From out of your...

Infernal eyesockets smolder As liquefacted eyeballs ooze Scalded optical nerves Blackened, blinded, and burnt... Melting flesh covers unseeing eyes Repulsively deforming the charred face... Pupils and irises engulfed and incinerated The cornea cauteri...

All who walk 'mongst the graves through the murk and the gloom You that crawl to the depths of the filth in the tomb So obsessed with the fruits of the autopsy room Heed this carrion call, join with the exhumed A voice descanting dirges Upon dead ears these r...

Splattered tumors reek, guts turn to cheese Dry festered entrails, withered caseating carnage... Moldy septic boils are munched, Cankered, suppurating gore is devoured... Mashed, ground, and bleeding Pyosisified, torn, and seeping I lick your rupturing carbu...

Tombstones trampled in my wake As I see to a matter quite grave The earth is turned as my claim is staked Besoiling my pickaxe, trowel and stave Caskets pounded and splintered they bust Flesh, bone and casket give way It smashes to ashes, crushed to dust...

Place these coins upon your eyes The final payment in your necrotic tithe And so the gleam that rendered you blind Affords the last entertainment you'll ever buy Filthy lucre's gleam - leaves you excoriated at the seams The rented corpse you've been, now teem...

Disarticulated, dismembered, and shred Useless pile of squirming meat Smeared bodily secretions gleaming As I caress the sickening flesh... Cadaveric penetration Intestinal fornication Masturbating on your innards Probing your orifices... Throbbing, I mastur...

Your dry throat creaks without a saliva to sputter As your pulpy dehydrated tongue soundlessly threshes Days without sustenance spent shackled and fettered Emaciated torso aches for the warm taste of flesh... I will make a meal of you, your hunger I'll sate S...

The process of pyosisification The onset of posthumous gangrene The putrid stench of your decomposing bowels The morbid foetor of your crepitated spleen… Your innards wallow in the cess Your abdominal cavity’s a sticky mess The syrupy gastro-rectal pas...

(In which most unwholesome paths are set upon by our protagonists, the future Dr. Knox and young William Hare, to the chagrin of polite society) “These heads of the profession convert the science of which they are ever chattering, into a mean and sordid tra...

Contagion spreading, eroding flesh, corroding brains Global splattering of entrails over sanguine stains Distorted reflection rotting, as we pretend forever young Beneath the gleaming vasge, a cesspool of pus and tripe and dung Disease accelerating, the...

In the deadest of nights I perform a graveside disservice, Disinhuming the remains of those who I deem to deserve this, A corpse dead to rights will undergo this rigorous trashing, Selecting the tomb of the poor stiff that tonight I will be thrashing... Exhume...

Purulent portents augur decrepit demise A tumescent terminus draws near Sloughing skin, boils erupt before your very eyes Carbuncles and lesions appear Wracked with infection - excruciated An affliction which will not abate Eczemic flesh stripped away -...

Arise from the dead Attack from the grave The killing won't stop 'til first light We'll bring you to hell Because we want to enslave Your soul will be frozen with fright We'll break through the crust Leave from our crypts Protected by eternal life Lay down the...

(In which the final grim realization is reached) “The mob, which was immense... received with shouts the solitary wretch who found his way to the gallows out of the five or six who seem not less guilty than he.” - Sir Walter Scott, 28t​ h​ of January 1829...

Strike my name from the book of life Inscribed forever in the book of death Destroyer, life-taker, the end and the omega Death walks behind you, waiting to find you to dismember... The bloody work of death is not too great a task All this and more, I now hold...

A sombre study in an ashen shade of grey The haunting eyes of the lifeless not yet rotten Embalming fluid stave off incursive decay Chemicals course through passages that life has forgotten Preservatives bubble and fume shades of jaundice and amber Seques...

Once upon the slab The torso starts to swell as entrails bloat After the toes are tagged Crepitus is the smell that has you clutching your throat Irrigate flatus, foul, tepid splatter... Decrepit Crescendo Flatulent emanations so rank The air`s turning sour a...

Step by step, death by death The end draws closer breath by breath An ichor-stained fate from which you won`t be spared The crimson labyrinth in which we`re ensnared... Behold- In shattered mirror what you`ve become Only now at the end- Can you see how terror...

(A welcome to the ghoulish age of late-Georgian Scottish grave-robbery and a warning to the bereaved) “The security inspired by rank and wealth against these irreverent intrusions on the sanctuary of the dead, is, as we all know, a mistaken confidence, sinc...

Purulent necromorphism takes hold As curdled innards turn yellowish with mold Autodigestion of entrails and liquefaction Decaying viscera collapse in colonic compaction Sludge and grume - Viscous gore Pyomorphism rots - To the core Spawning ground - For grubs...

Throw open the drawers in the dissection ward Hone the keen of the scalpel’s dread blade Scrub down the slab, for toes yet to be tagged And Y-shaped thoracic incisions to be made Slice - through the corpses that now lay before us Postmortem butchery Hack...

I unearth the decomposing corpse, Splintering the musty casket, Seething with excitement, I lay bare the dusty tomb... The pungent aroma of putrescence, Penetrates my nasal passage, Revealing the naked body, To play host to my morbid whims... An expeditious di...

Feverishly savouring my sordid, charnel chore, The rib cage and sternum I frenziedly bore, Skin flayed and stripped as your torso is wrecked, A grotesquely wrenched cavity now lays bare to dissect... A granular amorphous mass is all that remains, Of the perito...

Life made to imitate art Disfigured features re-sected upon being torn apart My cubist rhinoplasty has left you defaced Any semblance of dignity erased and replaced The face of death staring at you is only your own Distorted and twisted to form The mediu...

The things you see and believe The reflection displays quite differently Dysmorphic impressions held tenaciously Open your eyes, behold reality If you can bear the disappointment When you see what you truly are If you can choke back the repulsion At all of yo...

Spasmodic convulsions, gut wrenching pain Contracting digestive tract, bowels collapse Solidified mass of infectious embryonic vomit As lochial fluids spew from your mouth... Festering fetus expelled Oral caesarean section Your jaw alvulsed violently A drasti...

Fastened down and secured to the operating table With scalpels and cutlery I will work upon your aesthetics A most afflictive process you are made to endure Without the solacing service of a general anasthetic... Forcibly penetrating the palpebra I gouge...

Gnawing the stools, I masticate with fervor Enthusiastically I ingest the discharge of your gaping anus Anal disgorgement of steaming bits of meat Each smelly mouthful I devour, Your rectum is now going sour I divulge the latent feast of your colon As my dri...

You`ll fester forever in this forensic hell Sempiternal suppuration, throax starts to swell Purulent perdition, the body`s fluid coagulate Half dissolved gizzards oozing on my plate Slathering the chyme and pyathoric grume Your Last Supper is meal that turns m...

Lesions of your large intestines, adenocarcinomac sores Ulcerative malignant colitis, rectal tumors feed... Polypopsis of the colon, sanguineous rectal infection Prolapsing through your anus, tumors metastasize... [Lead- Matt] Constricting intestines, mucus...

Fahrenheit facilities my endeavour To seal the abhorrent aperture forever... Chastity assured, regardless of desire Misshapen fidelity, forged in fire... Melt and weld...Raze and smelt Blistering crotch...Searing hot... Forged in fire - Formed in flame Sex...

Forensic fetishism By erogenuos rottenatomy aroused Shameless self-fondling aggressively abetted By the embaldming fluid with which you are doused Tagged, stabbed and lavaged You`ve passed beyond the veil Blood replaced by formaldehyde Your lifeless flesh so p...

Necrotopian vision of a world deceased A tumescent carcass upon which the morbid feast The salubrious veneer pulled back to reveal A gruesome hulk of rotting meat where fluids congeal Truth - without beauty Cruelty - without beauty Funereality Global ma...

Your scrotum pustulates, as papules seep and weep and reek Pyosified testicles, now covered with boils and sores and scabs Your crotch leaking sanguined pus, ulcerous lesions erupt and ooze stale serum Penile pustule extrusion, your loins a mass of carbuncles...

Malignant sores seep, Pustules erupt with cheese, Degeneration of epithelium, Phagocytic cells increase... The carcinoma disseminates through lymphatic fluid, Giving rise to a myriad of metastic moppets, Lambasted by lesions and suffering tissue rejection, As...

A rancid whiff precedes me, and lingers after I leave I stalk the tombs each night, searching for new graves to reave The tomb my putrid larder, a corpse my rancid meal I feed upon their flesh, no soul remains to steal Gravewalker - piss on your grave Gr...

Cerebral cortex slashed, Frontal lobes abrased, Cerebellum gouged, Your hypophysis avulsed... Medulla severed, Lobes dismembered, Hypothalamus punctured, Optic chasm ruptured... The pons is scraped, As your brain I rape, The decomposed cerebrum now sludge, Put...

All the world's indeed a corpse, and we are merely maggots Dead on arrival is our only course, and if the toe fits, tag it Sycophants, we're writhing blind, feeding off each others' regurgitation Disgorging whatever waste we find, breeding our degradation with...

Nailing the dismembered member to the table, Hammer gleaming in my sweat soaked palm, First excruciating blow to the scrotum is struck, Hammering my genitals into a bloody pulp... Agonizing self castration, This hammer my tool of self-emasculation... Disfigure...

This olidous odyssey A macabre descent Through a mass of necrosis To reach beyond the end Suppurative cessation An ending in gore Pathological obsession To reach the rotten core Tangle of bowels I now unravel deep within Lost in this carnal labyrinth...

By night I return to the storage shed, Anxious to catch a glimpse of the dead, Nervously, I unbolt the door, Making my way into this abatoir... Hot air rushes out the aperture, A putrid gust of flattus and methane, Inhaling the rotting fumes as I choke, Hit by...

Extrapolating from the abhorrent, we disinter a sordid truth Heinously plundering death's depths like a bumbling violent sleuth Tearing through the layers of decay with vicious rancor and bitter scorn To get at the cold, dead heart of the matter which we bring...

(In which pangs of conscience at last pierce the veil of our heroes' occluded consciences, long since numbed by their morbid professions) “But woe to the riches and skill thus obtained, Woe to the wretch that would injure the dead And woe go his portion...

Your abdomen punctured just beneath the chest To access the gizzards he soon will infest This gurgling oblique aponeurosis is split By an influx of patogens through the hypogastric slit... INFESTER [x4] Your entrails reviled as they`re plagued and infected B...

Hacking and slashing I endeavor to make the choicest cuts Exsecting the posterior and I'll have secured the gluteus maximus Spanked, slapped and striped to tenderize as I ignite the gas I slaver over my uncooked fare, lusting for a piece of ass... My inst...

(In which the boyhoods of Dr. Knox and William Hare mold their decrepit destinies) “...From my earliest childhood I have been a dreamer and a visionary.... I have dwelt ever apart from the visible world. Well did I come to know the presiding dryads of those...

Cleaving away at any extremity From his torso his appendages are ripped Another pass of my chainsaw And his leg is disjoined at the hip Cutting with my shoulder blade His forearm I lustily seize Bit by bit deconstructing his demise Allowing my victim no...

The sterilized scalpel glistens in the light, Plasma issues forth as it plunges into my skin, Slicing the meat, I gleefully smile, Covering my body with carefully made incisions... The epidermis snaps back to make way for a gaping hole, Osseous tissue revealed...

Flee from the butchers, into the night Weeds tangle around you, the moon the only light You can hear their screams, echo in the air Your friends are being slaughtered but you can't afford to care Run for your life Hide from your death Into the night Y...

Calcified infant is a breach birth debacle Natal necrolysis, destined for a formaldehyde-filled bottle Caesarean section reveals the ghastly tot An ossified infant, in its womb borne to rot Livid and stiff ere its first breath is claimed The rigid bundle of j...

Brutally raped and hacked, Vagina torn ripped in half , Slash and rend, mutilate, Garrote the bitch, decapitate, Face ripped off, disfigurement, Bodily dismemberment, Guts are spilled, violent death, Mangled cunt to molest... Left embracing the carcass I disco...

Observing the forensic dissection, Espying the splayed chest cavity, His abberant sexual stimuli, The grotesquely displayed anatomy... Organs displaced with steel forceps, By the morbid anatomy technician, Ensanguined guts arouse the mixoscopic, His voyeuristi...

A moribund procession, rots its way through the streets Eagerly slavering for the essence they'll secrete Smearing the walls of the world, with mephitic putrescence They drag all within it, to their state of excrescence Necrocracy One nation buried under the...

Awakened by an unquenchable addiction To walk hand in hand with death Exhumed to transcend the walls of the coffin And search for newly rotted flesh... Casket crushing and dismantling the grave With other fiends in this sadistic enclave On draughts of b...

A shamble of rancid flesh despoiled and left to rot Another commodity, slaughtered, skinned, and cheaply bought The scent entices, the necrovores began to slaver Scavengers buzz and burrow in their putrescent palaver If you bleed it, they will come As sha...

Laid down amongst several thousand tabanid brethren, Wriggling free from a post-natal prison, Incubated in the spume of composting meat, Blindly in search of a necro-pyomorphic feast, Burrowing through layers of necrotic tissue, Pulpous flesh and muscle sinew,...

(In which Dr. Knox makes the acquaintance of Misters Burke and Hare, Resurrectionists by trade) “The bulk of the work was done at night, using wooden shovels... and a “dark lanthorn” - a device commonly used by burglars: designed to shed light where necessar...

Purulent hemorrhoidal inflammation Irritating rectal rash I scrape out the crepitating cavity To scour out the festering gash... Caked on pus and dribbling cess Extracted with care and precision Removing stagnant grime and watery chyme I tear out lacerating i...

Intracranial inflammation tormenting my addled gray matter Brings the pressure that builds my skulls set to shatter The vexating, purulent ulcer that plagues the seat of my reason Pyosisifying my seething brain while the pain keeps increasing... Unaffecte...

Gurgling oblique aponeurosis is split, As I infect your festering hypogastric slit Forced to play host to neurotrophic grime, I skillfully plague your insides with pathogenic slime... Ruptured gastro-duodenal flexure erupts, saponifying moist retroperineal fa...

Deep in your subconscious The terror that's always dwelt Just beneath the surface Like a pulsating toxic welt Distort your mind Senses decay You lose your grip As reality fades away Insanity, is drawing near Madness unleashed Playing with fear Unn...

In the dissection of flesh and the sawing of bone I've coaxed confessions from the lips of the dead Postmortem scrutiny that has clinically shone The horrifying facts that would have never been said... Unbosoming their secrets in the sickening results of their...

As your dismembered duodenum is ripped Your ulcerative abrased innards are split Gurgitated entrails now slush Putrefacted bowels gurgle and flush Mutitlated epigastric papillae A sickening mangled carcass I now emasculate Exulcerated intestines, disfigured a...

Gorging - the glut of grue consumed, vigorously Swollen, distended appetites - deformed prosperity Ingesting - the inhumed inhumane, indiscriminately The all-consuming, never stopping - virulent voracity And as you toil, they reap the despoiled A ravening Vo...

Something stirring in the darkness, clawing at the dirt Casket walls now splinter, the dead crawl up from the earth Unnatural ways of science, breathe life into a corpse Dead things rise from grave-sites to feed without remorse Re-animated cannibals Rise...

We won't take any shit and we're not about to leave Just cause you don't like who and what we want to be Who are you to say what's wrong what's right If it's what it takes, we're ready to fight Ready to fight, ready to fight Ready to fight, fight, fight,...

Scrubs Scrubs! 

You see me and you laugh out loud You taunt me from safe inside your crowd My looks, they must threaten you To make you act the way you do Red, I'm seeing red You see me and you think I'm a jerk First impressions without a word You can't believe your...

Suffering intolerably from bladder irritability, Emitting septic belches, pungent septic funk, Unable to function because of bowel flaccidity, Interruption of rectal reflex, a constipated gut... Fecal inspissation inspire colonic impaction, Decaying the discha...

From deep in the vault comes the sound of flesh cleaving, Limbs are sawed off as mourners are bereaving, Sarcophagi splattered with offal and bile, Tripe drips down the walls of this crypt now defiled... Sepulchural slaughter... I slaughter my meal with sublim...

Inside my freedom I'm slaved By those tastes of lust and evil I cannot escape I ever hear a voice A voice that is my sign Sex, drinks & metal The destiny of my life! Beware I'm alive And licensed to: Sex, drinks & metal Some forces tried to stop me...

The first ripening pustule - reared its black head today A mephitic harbinger - of inexorable decay Carbuncles and buboes - weeping welts to ensue Blood bears infection - as it courses through In sickness as in health - sickened by the sight Of myself in the m...

The Necromaniac arises from the grave To re-open the abscess, disembalm and deprave Dissecting and defiling the deadest of the dead Another quagmire of flesh whose life ended deep red Slaughtercult... In peace you`ll never rest Slaughtercult! To the fucking d...

To have and to hold after death`s done its part In a grave lying cold there remains my heart In sickness and stealth I come for conjugal exhumation Disinterring my betrothed for postmortem consummation To love and to cherish, though rotten and perished For ric...

Desensitized to the necrotized, a trompe-l’oeil made zombified Mocking death mask for the mortified -deformed Repellant rite now sanctified, pallid parody of the putrefied In formaldehyde death now baptized - reborn The sickening sight now sanitized In ce...

Behind the scenes of destiny I adore you in this song for me Call me within your holy house to dwell Let me raise for myself in spell Voluptuously dancing daughters of the night sky Sing the rapturous love song with high Let your sweet scented juice run Waste...

(Instrumental) “Burke and Hare... it is said, are the real authors of the measure. It would have been well if this fear had been manifested and acted upon before sixteen human beings had fallen victims to the supineness of the Government and the Legislature....

Hacked to pieces they found her Or rather, they scraped her off the floor Bits of bone and brain around her And the whole room was splattered with gore Her death was pitiless and violent Bludgeoned beyond recognition Her facial features crushed, her brain bea...

Churning and warm, your insides I gnaw, I dribble and fuss over the bubbling pus... Masticate the foaming carnage, Eviscerated human garbage, Curdling innards now ground and chewed, Cannibalized torso ensanguined and nude... Eating the bleeding, the reeking sp...

(In which Burke and Hare master the irredeemable art of procuring the freshest specimens of cadaver by the most nefarious means imaginable) “'Knowst thou not any, whom corrupting gold Would tempt unto a close exploit of death?' 'I know a discontented Ir...

Pernicious - A ghastly Gordian quandary to elucidate Pestiferous - A nebulous necrotic novelty to navigate Labyrinthine - A contumely carnal conundrum to cogitate Serpentine - An exulcerated entanglement to execrate... Hands stained and filthy from digging de...

Deep within the grave Where the cadaver lies decayed - there lurks the rotting Within every fetid corpse This process festers on its course - to speed the rotting Its ubiquity cannot be denied - a gruesome trade, sempiternally plied From the waste in which w...

An endless funeral procession marches on Numbed and grey as they delay their slow decay into the ground Nameless tombs amid the gloom, await like shadowed, grim cocoons They are the dead and this dirge is their swansong Those of the unlife infest the carcass...

I see the world through cadaver eyes Sickened by the sight of all that I despise Rotting mass devoured by maggots and flies A ghoulish feast upon the necrotized I see the world through cadaver eyes A sucking grave from which nothing will rise Too late we...

Blood is spilled, bones are cracked, Fettered limbs are cruelly hacked, Relentless brutal maniac, Violent death, gore attack... Torso... Choke on guts, final breath, Now awaiting your morbid death, No more hope for life is left, When I rip off your fucking hea...

Scalpels cleave and reave though crimson rivulets Weaving their cold and malignant minuets Carving out funereal figures in arcane alphabets Scars that will never heal or forget... Like puzzle pieces, set askew, you've come undone The bleeding is ceaseless, yo...

(In which Mister Hare, spurred by greed and the lack of ethics of the anatomists, proposes a drastic and loathsome course of action) “...a wretch who is not worth a farthing while alive, becomes a valuable article when knock'd on the head and carried to an a...

Headstones overturned and smashed Your fucking corpse I want to thrash The cold, hard ground I hack and slash Coffins torns apart like trash Six feet closer to your doom From this grave I will exhume Horrid flesh my blade consumes As I destroy your earthen tom...

Beholding the kaliedescopic hue of your decomposing hymen I salivate, Entranced by the effervescing effluvium of the rotted vagina, Carefully excising the fragantly fermented labia I shall masticate, Savoring the pungent aromatic whiff, my quivering lips we...

Admiring the syphilitic visage, Of the pustule ridden genitals that I adore, Oozing sebum and pus dribbling on the labia, Leaves me panting for more... Vaginal excrements fume and funk, The stench of festering menstrual discharge, The wafting odor tortues my n...

In my waxen world, time stands still Forever frozen like flies trapped in amber One perfect moment preserved, just ere the kill Gruesome atrocities transfixed in horror's chamber Poetry without motion, figures stranded midstream Waxen players in this dark dra...

Epicurean pathology Shattered gross anatomy Bodily fluids, foul and septic I sing the body decrepit Your funeral, my feast You’ll never rest in peace Tagged, sectioned, then slabbed Slurp fluids from your body-bag Repulsive, jaundiced flesh - The stoma...

Mangled body lies wasted Decaying on a mortuary slab Ulcerative heap of carnage Preserved in a plastic bag... Cavities are opened, innards dislocated Gastric fluid gurgles, as your entrails are masticated Vile evisceration, discarded in a box Liquefacted auto...