Complete Monster/Music

Some songs are about horrifically evil people.

"We're gonna play a game that I enjoy/We won't stop 'till you tell the truth/No matter what, I won't believe/'cause I just like hurting you"
 * Death Metal songs with gore in it in general. Chances are, they are songs about how they are doing some of the most horrific stuff that mankind can come up with.
 * The lyrics in a typical Devourment song includes
 * The eponymous character of The Decemberists' "The Rake's Song" relates how he murders his three children after their mother died in childbirth because he wants a new life, including beating his son to death and burning the body for daring to fight back, and concludes by saying that he doesn't regret it at all.
 * The Notorious B.I.G. and Eminem both come across as this in Dead Wrong, with Biggie alone describing murdering and/or raping an entire family.
 * Eminem in general has made himself (or at least his alter ego, Slim Shady) out to be one in many of his rap songs. Must be part of being a Misanthrope Supreme.
 * 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. And in the Quarrybastards's movie, Maxwell even pulls a Karma Houdini!
 * The Frameshift album "An Absence of Empathy" was created to explore the nature of violence and features songs from various viewpoints. Nearly everyone is given some sympathy: the serial killer in "Just One More" is mentally ill and cannot stop himself, the impulse murderer in "I Killed You" was so remorseful that he killed himself afterward, the school shooter in "Outcast" was bullied his entire life. Even the possible rapist in "How Long Can I Resist?" is portrayed as simply longing for a connection with a woman and desperately wanting someone to stop him. The torturer in "This Is Gonna Hurt", however, is a Complete Monster who delights in the pain of his victim, going so far as to describe their screams as music.


 * The main character of Creature Feature's "Such Horrible Things" talks of all the things he's done while stating outright that he should be killed gruesomely for having done it all. The way he muses about one incident with sinister chuckle says he enjoyed every moment.
 * The scariest part is what he did when he was 14. At first he says that nothing happened, but then he remembers "that one time" and chuckles. Cue a series of screams and about 50 seconds without any narration.
 * During live shows early in their career, Disturbed would paint their "madman" lead singer as this during his Alice Cooper-like on-stage execution for concert openings. He struggles like an animal, strapped into an electric chair, while a chilling voice reads out his absurdly long and unreal list of crimes.

"I stand accused before you
 * After this, the room darkens while Draiman can be heard sizzling. A moment later, they play Down with the Sickness. Also, the docket number is Draiman's birthday (March 13, 1973).
 * The doctors in the video probably count too. Horrible as Draiman may have been, assuming any of the intro was true, anyone who  is most certainly beyond any kind of redemption themselves.
 * Apparently, this was parodied in Red Band’s ‘final performance’. The story behind the performance was that Red was sentenced to death and his final request was a kick-ass final performance. The performance started with various ‘evidence’ from his ‘trial’, including the judge’s shock at the nature of Red’s acts, followed by Red’s therapist coming on stage and mentioning how Red had sexually harassed his own mother in utero, performed incest with strangers, and didn’t pay his therapist bills. (Red himself seems to show genuine affection to no-one, to the point where he encourages his friend Poncho to jump to his death already for no other reason than ‘I haven’t got all day, I got shit to do’, the only exceptions being Marina Maximillian Blumin, with whom he falls in love, and his own son.)
 * Though opinions differ, Murdoc of the Gorillaz definitely Crosses the Line Twice and then some. So far, his track record includes theft, insurance fraud, possible murder, Organ Theft, extortion, and many, many counts of assault. Most of these crimes were aimed at 2D, the only person who'd tolerate him as long as he did, and on top of all that, Murdoc's still a misanthropic, filthy, perverted alcoholic.
 * The main character in When You're Evil by Voltaire claims to be the embodiment of evil. He starts to show sadness and regret at the end...and then reveals he was lying!
 * Robert from Foster The People's "Pumped Up Kicks" seems to be this.
 * The singer in "Kiss Me, Son of God" is a horrendously sociopathic Villain with Good Publicity who revels in the fact that he gets people to love him even while he torments them.
 * The guy in Avenged Sevenfold's song, A Little Piece of Heaven. His girlfriend rejects him, so he stabs her 50 times, rips out her heart while she's alive and eats it, and he rapes her corpse. Really, he only feels bad when Karma catches up to him and sics his zombie girlfriend on him...but he still gets off as a Karma Houdini who starts a Zombie Apocalypse.
 * The title character of Shinedown's "Bully". The lyric "Make another joke while they hang another rope" cements this. That's right, he's cracking jokes about people who hang themselves from his torture.
 * The singer character of the Dave Matthew's Band "Don't Drink The Water" is a man who's come to a land populated by natives and is claiming it as his own. His proposition to the natives that he makes for most of the song is that they either get out of his new home or he'll kill them. The implication is that the natives refused to move, because the lyrics soon are "Upon these poor souls I'll build Heaven and call it home - Cause you're all dead now!" The singer proceeds to sing about how he'll live with greed, no mercy, frenzied feeding, hatred, jealousy, and the notion that he doesn't need anyone because he's the only one who matters. And then the title of the song comes because "there's blood in the water."
 * The narrator of A Criminal Mind definitely qualifies. That song could almost be the ANTHEM for this trope...Gowan really brings the point home in the second part of the first verse:

I have no tears to cry

And you will never break me

until the day I DIE...."

"A criminal mind is all I
 * And the chorus:

All I've ever known

They tried to reform me

but I'm made of cold stone

My criminal mind is all I

All I've ever had

Ask one who's known me

if I'm really so bad

I AM."

"Some people struggle daily
 * The song is about how the narrator is a ruthless, charismatic criminal mastermind (whose crimes, by the way, are neither explained nor elaborated on) essentially boasting about how nothing and no-one can change him. Summed up excellently in the second part of the final verse:

They struggle with their conscience 'till the end

I have no guilt to haunt me

I feel no wrong intent"