In this sense death metal is admittedly a little adolescent; its lyrics don’t only avoid subjects unrelated to death and dying, they shun such subjects like vampires avoiding the sun. Death metal lyricists subscribe to the proposition that you shouldn’t use one syllable where five can be used in its place, and to the related proposition that making sense is less important than sounding heavy. Hence, we find ourselves frequently confronted with lines like “Gangrene of your soul/for the sporadisation of everyone.” But none of this matters a whit, because our central thesis remains true, and our central thesis, you’ll remember, was that death metal rules.