"We’ve really tried hard to make our songs serious horror songs. But the ones that have the more extreme gore in them, those lyrics sometimes make the audience realize there’s a bit of black humour to it, much in the way Evil Dead or Evil Dead II did. Those movies were meant to be frightening, for sure. But it takes some of the scare out of it because they were so over the top. None of our songs are written to be intentionally humourous or anything like that, but I think when you’re describing something that bloody considering the context: it’s coming from a band. It’s coming from a band and you’re enjoying the music and you’re reading the lyrics that’s describing something completely atrocious, you know, and people aren’t going to take it particularly seriously. [...] It’s strange, but if you edge off the gore a little, the song becomes more frightening. I would say Cannibal Corpse has a little bit of Evil Dead to it, but we have more serious horror songs too. Not that any of them were intentionally not serious. But when you edge the gore back a little bit and leave something to the listener’s imagination you can wind up with something scarier. That’s the same way with horror movies, I think. The movies that I found to be the most frightening weren’t particularly graphic, as far as violence goes. [...] There’s a number of dark, frightening movies that I really like and they aren’t that gory at all. Some of our songs are Evil Dead-like, but we have songs that are more like The Shining."