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The 1991 metal album "Necroticism - Descanting the Insalubrious" [0] by British band Carcass was a landmark work which took the use of unusual vocabulary in met

The 1991 metal album "Necroticism - Descanting the Insalubrious" [0] by British band Carcass was a landmark work which took the use of unusual vocabulary in metal lyrics to a new (and arguably-satirical) level [1]. Here are some examples, lists of the uncommon words included in a few of the songs lyrics: Track 1, "Inpropagation" : atrabilious, crevet, ebullition, beatrific, exequiet, coronach, humous, fecundate, defalcating, lacrimation Track 2, "Corporal Jigsaw Quandary" (see [2] for YT video of song) : evulsed, deviscerated, chondrin, decollate, quiescent, detrital, sequacious, commensated, convented, uliginous Track 4, "Pedigree Butchery" : spumous, crubescent, martilinear, desparental, primparal, sporulate, chimerical, rheological, fluxing, "illegitimeat", contumely, ebullient, despumation, desipient Back then it was common belief that the band members were medical students, and that the terminology in their lyrics came from their studies, but this ultimately turned out to be a myth. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Necroticism_%E2%80%93_Descanting_the_Insalubrious https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Necroticism_%E2%80%93_Descanti... [1] http://www.darklyrics.com/lyrics/carcass/necroticismdescantingtheinsalubrious.html http://www.darklyrics.com/lyrics/carcass/necroticismdescanti... [2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F5nGo7yUtlE https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F5nGo7yUtlE

spiralx 3y ago
I loved that album so much when I was 17, and I don't remember anything other than HP Lovecraft that made me look up so many words in a dictionary - unfortunately this was back when I didn't have internet access, and most of the medical terms Carcass used weren't in my dictionary lol. And I guessed that they were medical students from that, seems I wasn't the only one to make that assumption! But never since have I come across such philial odes to corpses and the cleaning thereof. Edited to add I'm thinking of Symphonies of Sickness as the one I listened to the most, although Necroticism came a close second.

spiralx 3y ago

I loved that album so much when I was 17, and I don't remember anything other than HP Lovecraft that made me look up so many words in a dictionary - unfortunately this was back when I didn't have internet access, and most of the medical terms Carcass used weren't in my dictionary lol. And I guessed that they were medical students from that, seems I wasn't the only one to make that assumption! But never since have I come across such philial odes to corpses and the cleaning thereof. Edited to add I'm thinking of Symphonies of Sickness as the one I listened to the most, although Necroticism came a close second.