Misogyny in death metal has been done to death. For decades, death metal bands have focused on the classic horror-movie theme of cutting up girls as the sole subject matter of their shock value-driven albums. In more recent memory, brutal, technical bands like Devourment, Thy Art Is Murder and Vulvodynia have sought to outrage audiences with songs like Fuck Her Head Off, Whore to a Chainsaw and Psychosadistic Design, respectively. The latter’s seemingly-benign title is belied by its opening sound clip of a disturbing sexual assault and one of the more intelligible lyrics (again, relatively speaking) exclaiming, “Mangled fucking slut!” However, in the modern scene, key players in the genre — both those who’ve previously played into the problem and those who ha...
