Literature and music are filled with meditations on the fear of death, but few are as graphic as Slayer’s “Necrophobic.” The speaker here, unable to suppress his fearful preoccupation with death, can’t stop obsessively ruminating over morbid scenarios.
This is in contrast to later songs on the albu...
[Verse 1]
Strangulation, mutilation, cancer of the brain
Limb dissection, amputation from a mind deranged
Asphyxiation, suffocation, gasping for air
Explain to me the feeling after sitting in the chair
[Refrain]
Ripping apart, severing flesh
Gouging eyes, tearing limb from limb
[Verse 2]
Experimentation, slow infection, internal decay
Execution, need transfusion, body rots away
Sliced incision, zero vision, loss of vital signs
Skin contortion, bone erosion, your life becomes your fine
[Refrain]
Ripping apart, severing flesh
Gouging eyes, tearing limb from limb
[Instrumental Break]
[Guitar Solo]
[Guitar Solo]
[Bridge]
Strangulation, mutilation, cancer of the brain
Limb dissection, amputation from a mind deranged
Asphyxiation, suffocation, gasping for air
Explain to me the feeling after sitting in the chair
Sliced incision, zero vision, loss of vital signs
Skin contortion, bone erosion, your life becomes your fine
[Outro]
Necrophobic, can't control the paranoia
Scared to die
Necrophobic was written by Jeff Hanneman & Kerry King.
Necrophobic was produced by Slayer & Rick Rubin.
Slayer released Necrophobic on Tue Oct 07 1986.