Grimly I dig up the turfs
To remove the corrupted stiffs
Trying to contain my excitement
As I desecrate graveolent crypts...
Fingers claw at coffin lids
Eager festal exhumation
Hugging your wry, festered remains
With post-humous joy and elation...
Body snatched, freshly interred
Whatever takes my fancy
To satisfy my gratuitous pica
My culinary necromancy...
Scrutinised then brutalised
My forensic inquisition is fulfiled
My recipe is now your epitaph
Be it fried, boiled or grilled...

I devour the pediculous corpse
Whetting my palate as I exhume
The festering stench of rotting flesh
Makes me drool as I consume...

Caskets I grate
My larder's a grave
I'm sickly obsessed (with the badly decomposed)
Rotten remains I eat
Purulent meat
What a funeral feast (putrid reek)

Weeping tissue is stripped
Pus dribbles from my lips
Pulverising this pustular chaff
Butchering up morgue's makes me laugh...

Ulcerated flesh I munch
Rotting corpses are my lunch
On bones I love to crunch (on the badly decomposed)
Shrivelled innards I lick
The corpse's head I kick
Crumbling shreds I pick (eat the stiffs)
(Solo: morbid melody for the deceased with salt to taste)

Rancid flesh, slaughter the dead
- Caskets exhumed...
Corpses disinterred, graves disturbed
- To consume...

Bereaved relatives are not amused
As on their dear departed I feverishly consume...

Slavering worms, decomposure burns
Corrosion born, as bacteria gnaw

Desecrate...
Precipitate....(from the muddy grave)
Macerate...
Eviscerate...

Caskets I grate
My larder's a grave
I'm sickly obsessed (with the badly decomposed)
Rotten remains I eat
Purulent meat
What a funeral feast (putrid reek)

Saponified fats, nibbled by rats
- freshly exhumed...
Deep down six feet is where I like to eat
- Human flesh to consume...


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    This song is about vegetarianism.

    PersonMan92on April 24, 2006   Link
  • +1
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    This song is so badass

    webermgon December 07, 2006   Link
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    This song is fukin great.

    LordGoreon July 03, 2002   Link
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    I love the taste of a fresh, dead body! Except thats not what this song is about. It's really about decayed flesh, left in the ground to mix with the nutrients of worm shit and casket wood. Though, I wouldnt recommend modern caskets, as it leaves a bitter taurine taste. You really need to sample something from a colonial era cemetary where plain wood engorges the flesh. mMm, I can taste it now. My mouth is watering. Of course, one would be amiss without the delicate sounds of Carcass blaring as you feast on your ancestors. No cemetary feast is complete without this classic metal song especially. Dont forget to complement your cuisine with a pitcher of blood as cemetaries each have a BYOB policy. Happy eatings.

    Necronicon March 05, 2005   Link
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    You're weird, man.

    evildaveon March 05, 2005   Link
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    I already ate a dead body. But the pig was killed in the butchery

    ronaldorfron August 14, 2016   Link

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