List of songs about or referencing serial killers
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This is a list of songs about or referencing killers. The songs are divided into groups by the last name of the killer the song is about or mentions.
A–B[]
Axeman of New Orleans[]
- "The Mysterious Axman's Jazz (Don't Scare Me Papa)" – Joseph John Davilla[1]
Joe Ball[]
- "Joe Ball was his name" – Macabre
Elizabeth Báthory[]
- "An Execution" – Siouxsie and the Banshees[2]
- "Bathe in Blood" – Evile[3]
- "Báthory Erzsébet" - Sunn O)))
- "Beauty Through Order" – Slayer[4]
- "The Bleeding Baroness" – Candlemass[5]
- "Countess Bathory" - Venom[6]
- "Countess Erszebeth Nadasdy" – Barathrum[7]
- Cruelty and the Beast album by Cradle of Filth[3]
- Die Blutgräfin album by Untoten
- "Elizabeth" – Aiden[7]
- "Elizabeth" – Ghost[7]
- Elizabeth album – Kamelot[7]
- "Elizabeth Bathory" – Tormentor
- "Rose of Pain" – X-Japan[5]
- "To the Memory of the Dark Countess" – Mütiilation[5]
- "Torquemada 71" – Electric Wizard[5]
- "Woman of Dark Desires" – Bathory[8]
- "The Wrath of Satan's Whore" – Countess[3]
Robert Berdella[]
- "Diary of Torture" – Macabre
David Berkowitz[]
- ".44 Magnum Opus" - Exodus
- "Bay of Pigs" – The Acacia Strain
- "Cereal Killer" – Green Jellÿ[9]
- "Death 2" – Flatbush Zombies
- "Diddy Doo Wop (I Hear The Voices)" – Hall & Oates[10]
- "I Hear Black" – Overkill[11]
- "Hello From the Gutter" – Overkill[12]
- "Hot Damn" – Ivy Levan
- "Insane in the Brain" – Cypress Hill[13]
- "Jumping at Shadows" – Benediction
- "Looking Down the Barrel of a Gun" – Beastie Boys[13]
- "Mr. 44" – Electric Hellfire Club[14]
- "Reign In Blood" – Necro
- "(Sam), Son of Man" – Marilyn Manson and The Spooky Kids
- "Stay Wide Awake" – Eminem
- "Son of A Gun (David Berkowitz)" – Church of Misery
- "Son of Sam" - Chain Gang
- "Son of Sam" – Dead Boys
- "Son of Sam" – Elliott Smith
- "Son of Sam" – Macabre
- "Son of Sam" – Shinedown
- "Son of Sam" – Violent Soho
- "Summer Of Sam" – Lana Del Rey
- "Unseen Darkness" – Sinister
Kenneth Bianchi & Angelo Buono[]
- "Hillside Strangler" – The Destructors
- "Hillside Strangler" – The Hollywood Squares
- "The Hillside Stranglers" – Macabre
- "I Wanna Make You Scream" – Battalion of Saints
- "Notown Blues" – The Black Lips[2]
Ian Brady & Myra Hindley[]
- "Archives of Pain" – Manic Street Preachers
- "Lambs to the Slaughter" – Church of Misery
- "Mother Earth" – Crass[15]
- "No One Is Innocent" – The Sex Pistols
- "Suffer Little Children" – The Smiths
- "Very Friendly" – Throbbing Gristle
Jerry Brudos[]
- "Fatal Foot Fetish" – Macabre
- "Truest Shade of Crimson – Through the Eyes of the Dead
Ted Bundy[]
- "Anne" – Bloodbath
- "Black Friday" – Lil' Kim
- "Blackest Eyes" – Porcupine Tree
- "Blow" – Tyler, the Creator
- "Bundy" – Animal Alpha
- "Bundy's DNA" – Acid Drinkers[16]
- "Crack" – Slowthai
- "Death 2" – Flatbush Zombies
- "The Drifter" – Green on Red
- "epaR" – Earl Sweatshirt
- "I, Motherfucker (Ted Bundy)" – Church of Misery
- ”Lotta True Crime”- Penelope Scott
- "Meticulous Invagination" – Aborted
- "Mr. Gore" – Blitzkid[17]
- "Murder Dividead" – Edge Of Sanity
- "Reign In Blood" - Necro
- "Serial Killer" – Vio-lence[18]
- "Stay Wide Awake" – Eminem
- "Stripped, Raped and Strangled" – Cannibal Corpse
- "Ted Bundy" - Theory of a Deadman
- "The Ted Bundy Song" – Macabre
- "Ted, Just Admit It" – Jane's Addiction[2]
- "Till Death" – Lord Infamous
- "Torch Song Trilogy" - Handsome Boy Modeling School[19]
- "Warrior" - Swollen Members
- "We Want Cunt" – Jeffree Star
- "What Turns You on?" – The Cassandra Complex
- "Wheels on the bug" – Macabre
C–F[]
Richard Chase[]
- "Blood Sucking Freaks (Richard Chase)" – Church of Misery
- "House Sparrow" – Xiu Xiu
Andrei Chikatilo[]
- "Psychopathy Red" – Slayer
- "Red Ripper Blues (Andrei Chikatilo)" – Church of Misery
- "Ripper von Rostow" – Eisregen
- "Rostov Ripper" – Impious
- "The Butcher of Rostov" – Blood Tsunami
Adolfo Constanzo[]
- "El Padrino (Adolfo Constanzo)" – Church of Misery
- "Sacrifical Shack" – Pain Teens
Dean Corll[]
- "Candyman" – Monte Cazazza
- "Candyman (Dean Corll)" – Church of Misery
Jeffrey Dahmer[]
- "213" – Slayer[2]
- "Arcarsenal" – At The Drive-In
- "Bagpipes from Baghdad" – Eminem
- "Bandit" – Juice WRLD ft. NBA YoungBoy
- "Body Parts" – Three 6 Mafia
- "Brainless" – Eminem
- "Cannibal" – Kesha
- "Celebrity Cannibalism" – Creaming Jesus
- "Choklit Factory" – Marilyn Manson
- "Control" – The Black Dahlia Murder
- "Da Graveyard" – Big L
- Dahmer – Macabre[20]
- "Dahmer and the Limbs" – Nicole Dollanganger
- "Dahmer is Dead" – Violent Femmes
- "Danger Zone" – Big L
- "Dark Horse" – Katy Perry ft. Juicy J
- "Death 2" Meechy Darko
- "Dirty Frank" – Pearl Jam
- "Freeze Dried Man" – Macabre
- "God Bless" – Combichrist
- "I'm On It" – J. Cole
- "Jeffrey" – Juice WRLD
- "Jeffrey Dahmer" – Soulfly
- "Keep it Underground" – Lords of the Underground
- "KKKill the Fetus" - Esham
- "Killer" - Phoebe Bridgers
- "Lift Me Up" - Vince Staples
- "Lord Dahmer" - Final Solution
- "Marlon JD" – Manic Street Preachers[dubious ]
- "Moonshine" - Swollen Members
- "Must Be The Ganja" - Eminem
- "Murder Avenue" - Geto Boys
- "Nature of the threat" - Ras Kass
- "Natural Born Killaz - Dr. Dre ft. Ice Cube
- "Now I'm High, Really High" − Three 6 Mafia
- "Orange Juice" - EarlWolf
- "Particle Accelerator" - Tad
- "Pretty Boy Swag" - Tyga
- "Psycopath Killer" - Eminem ft Slaughterhouse & Yelawolf
- "Rap, Soda y Bohemia" – Molotov
- "Reign In Blood" - Necro
- "Room 213" – Church of Misery
- "Room 213" – Dead Moon
- "Room 213" - G.G.F.H.
- "Said the Spider to the Fly" - the pAper chAse
- "Siccmade" - Brotha Lynch Hung
- "Sinthasomphone" – Venetian Snares
- "Spooky Mormon Hell Dream" - Andrew Rannells
- "Still Born/Still Life" – Christian Death
- "Straight Boys" - Jeffree Star
- "The Ballad Of Jeffrey Dahmer" – Pinkard & Bowden
- "Things Get Worse" - Eminem Ft. B.o.B
- "Tom Dahmer Mixtape Freestyle" – Necro
- "Transformer" – Future ft. Nicki Minaj
- "Trigger Inside" - Therapy?
- "Usual Suspects" – Hollywood Undead
- "You're Gonna Love This"- 3OH!3
- "What's That Smell?" – Macabre
Albert DeSalvo[]
- "The Boston Strangler" – Macabre
- "Boston Strangler (Albert DeSalvo)" – Church of Misery
- "Dedicated to Albert De Salvo" – Whitehouse
- "Dirty Water" – The Standells
- "Midnight Rambler" – The Rolling Stones[21]
Dnepropetrovsk maniacs[]
- "Dealers of Fame" - Oh, Sleeper
Mark Essex[]
- "Soul Discharge (Mark Essex)" – Church of Misery
Albert Fish[]
- "27 Needles" – John 5
- "Albert Fish/Liverwurst" – Green Jellÿ
- "Albert Was Worse Than Any Fish In The Sea" – Macabre
- "Slaughter House" – Macabre
- "Document: Grace Budd" – The Number Twelve Looks Like You
- "Fish" - Tyler, the Creator
- "Fishtales" – Macabre
- "Instruments of Hell" – Exhumed[22]
- "Human Consumption" - Necro
- "Letter to Mother" - Divine Heresy
- "Mr. Albert Fish (Was Children Your Favourite Dish?)" – Macabre
- "Mr Fish" – Sparzanza
- "The Gray Man (Albert Fish)" – Church of Misery
- "The Werewolf of Westeria" – John 5
- "Three Bedrooms in a Good Neighborhood" − Death Grips
Lavinia Fisher[]
- "Pretty Lavinia" – American Murder Song
G–J[]
John Wayne Gacy[]
- "33 Something" – Bathory
- "Clownin' Around" - Deer Tick[2]
- "Finger Paintings of The Insane" - Acid Bath
- "Gacy's Lot" – Macabre
- "Stinky" – Macabre
- "Gacy's Place" - The Mentally Ill
- "John Wayne Gacy, Jr." – Sufjan Stevens
- "Johnny's in Love With You" - The Bang
- "Master of Brutality (John Wayne Gacy)" – Church of Misery
- "Pogo The Clown" – Dog Fashion Disco
- "Pogo The Clown" – Hubert Kah
- "Reign In Blood" - Necro
- "Suffer Age" – Fear Factory
- "Three for Flinching (Revenge of the Porno Clowns)" – The Dillinger Escape Plan
- "Unaccommodating" - Eminem
Harvey Murray Glatman[]
- "Harvey Glatman (Your Soul Will Forever Rot)" – Macabre
Grim Sleeper[]
- "Twistin'" – Lil Ugly Mane (featuring Denzel Curry)
Carl Großmann[]
- "The Sweet Tender Meat Vendor" - Macabre
Belle Gunness[]
- "The Ballad Of Belle Gunness" – TJ McFarland
- "Bella The Butcher" – Macabre
- "Belle Gunness" – Cassius
- "Black Widow of La Porte" – John 5
Fritz Haarmann[]
John George Haigh[]
- "Acid Bath Vampire" – Macabre
- "Make Them Die Slowly (John George Haigh)" - Church of Misery
Jack the Ripper[]
- "Blood Red Sandman" – Lordi[23]
- "The Death of Jack the Ripper" – The Legendary Pink Dots
- "Down on Whores" – Benediction
- "In the Mind of a Lunatic" – Sigh
- "Jack" – Iced Earth[23]
- "Jack the Knife" – The Electric Hellfire Club
- "Jack the Ripper" – Nationalteatern
- "Jack the Ripper" – Screaming Lord Sutch
- "Jack the Ripper" – Buckethead
- "Jack the Ripper" - Hobbs' Angel of Death
- "Jack the Ripper" – LL Cool J
- "Jack The Ripper" – Macabre[23]
- "Jack the Ripper" – Morrissey
- "Jack the Ripper" – Motorhead[23]
- "Jack the Ripper" – Nick Cave and The Bad Seeds
- "Jack the Ripper" – Rob Kelly
- "Jack The Ripper" – The Horrors
- "Jack the Ripper in Heaven" – Club Moral[24]
- "Killer on the Loose" - Thin Lizzy
- "Life Is a Rock (But the Radio Rolled Me)" – Reunion
- "Maxwell Murder" – Rancid
- "Music Box" - Eminem
- "Must be the Ganja" - Eminem
- "Reconstruction of the Female Anatomy"- Through the Eyes of the Dead
- "The Ripper" – Judas Priest[23]
- "Saucy Jack" – Spinal Tap
- The Somatic Defilement – Whitechapel[23]
- "Tombstone Blues" − Bob Dylan
- "Unsolved Mysteries" – Animal Collective[2]
K–M[]
Theodore Kaczynski[]
- "Body Parts" – Three 6 Mafia
- "Exploding Octopus" – Ill Bill
- "FC: The Freedom Club" – Sleepytime Gorilla Museum
- "I Wanna Be a Unabomber" – Donnas
- "Killer Kaczynski" – Mando Diao
- "Militia Song" – Camper Van Beethoven
- "Unabomber" – J. Cole
- "The Unabomber" – Macabre
- "Unabomber" – M.I.R.V.
- "Unabomber" – The Acacia Strain
- "Unabomber" – Underground Resistance
Edmund Kemper[]
- "Abomination Unseen" - Devourment
- "Edmund Kemper Had a Terrible Temper" – Macabre[20]
- "Forever" – The Berzerker
- "Fortress/Outer Space/Forever" – System of a Down
- "Killifornia (Edmund Kemper III)" – Church of Misery
- "Murder" - Seabound
- "Severed Head" – Suicide Commando
- "Temper Temper Mr. Kemper" - The Celibate Rifles
- "Urge to Kill" – Throbbing Gristle
Joachim Kroll[]
- "Evil Ole Soul" – Macabre
Richard Kuklinski[]
- "The Iceman" – Macabre
- "Lyrical Hitman (Richard Kuklinski)" – Royce Da 5'9" and Marvwon
Peter Kürten[]
- Dedicated to Peter Kurten – Whitehouse
- "Dusseldorf Monster" - Church of Misery
- "In Germany Before the War" – Randy Newman
- "Vampire of Düsseldorf" – Macabre
Lawrence Bittaker & Roy Norris[]
- "The Murder Mack" – Macabre
Leonard Lake & Charles Ng[]
- "The Ballad of Leonard and Charles" – Exodus
- "Macerate and Petrify" – Venetian Snares
- "The Lake Of Fire" – Macabre
Leonarda Cianciulli[]
- "Teacakes" – Macabre
Henry Lee Lucas & Ottis Toole[]
- "Henry Lee Lucas" -
- "Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer" - Fantômas
- "Let's Be Bad, Henry" - the pAper chAse
- "Lucas Toole" - Downthesun
- "Murder Company" – Church of Misery
- "Serial Killer" – Macabre
- ”While You Sleep, I Destroy Your World”- Nailbomb[25]
Herman Mudgett (a.k.a. H. H. Holmes)[]
- "Dr. Holmes (He Stripped Their Bones)" – Macabre
- "From the Cradle to the Grave" - Havok
- "Infecting them with Falsehood" – Deeds of Flesh
- "The Torture Doctor"- Alkaline Trio
Herbert Mullin[]
- "Megalomania (Herbert Mullin)" – Church of Misery
N–R[]
Dennis Nilsen[]
- "Cranley Gardens" (Denis Nilsen) – Church of Misery
- "Killing for Company" – Swans[26]
- "Turnabout" — Moth Wranglers
- "You're Dying To Be With Me" – Macabre
- "When Lovers Die" – Children on Stun
Carl Panzram[]
- "Reminiscences of a Minnesota State Training School Alumni, Class of 1905" – Flare Acoustic Arts League
Christopher Peterson[]
- "Shotgun Peterson" – Macabre
Alexander Pichushkin[]
- "Sewers" – Torture Killer
Robert Pickton[]
- "Fed To The Pigs" – Devourment
- "Hooker Fortified Pork Products"- The Accüsed
- "Pigfarm" – Mad Sin
Dorothea Puente[]
- "Dorthea's Dead Folks Home" – Macabre
Dennis Rader[]
- "Bind, Torture and Kill" – Suicide Commando
- "Bind Torture Kill" – Suffocation
- "B.T.K." - Church of Misery
- "BTK" - Exodus
- ”Lotta True Crime” - Penelope Scott
- "Raider II" - Steven Wilson
Gilles de Rais[]
- "Barbazul versus el amor letal" - Patricio Rey y sus Redonditos de Ricota
- "The Black Knight" – Macabre
- Godspeed on the Devil's Thunder - Cradle of Filth
- "Into the Crypts of Rays" – Celtic Frost
- "Tritt Ein" – Saltatio Mortis
- "The Window" - The Black Dahlia Murder
Richard Ramirez[]
- "Acosador Nocturno" - Soulfly
- "City of Angels" - Testament
- "Godzilla" - Eminem
- "Going Going Gone" – Exodus
- "Kamikaze" - Eminem
- "Killer" – King Diamond
- "Knight Stalker" - Shadow Project
- "Night Crawler" - Judas Priest
- "Night Crawling" - Miley Cyrus featuring Billy Idol
- "The Night Stalker" – Bewitched
- "Night Stalker" – Macabre
- "Night Stalker" – Super Heroines
- "The Reflecting God" - Marilyn Manson
- "Richard Ramirez Died Today Of Natural Causes" - Sun Kil Moon
- "Noche Acosador" – John 5
- "Nocturnal Predator" - Legion of the Damned
- "Ramirez" - The Acacia Strain
- "Smooth Criminal" - Michael Jackson[27]
- "Snake Eyes and Sissies" - Marilyn Manson
- "Where Evil Dwells (Richard Ramirez)" – Church of Misery
- "Your Window Is Open" – Macabre
Gary Ridgway[]
- "Deep Red Bells" – Neko Case
- "Green River" – Church of Misery
- "The Green River Murderer (He's Still Out There)" – Macabre
- "Come On Down" - Green River
- "I Wanna Know What Love Is" - Julie Ruin
- "Sane vs. Normal" - Mnemic
- "You Can't Slip" - Sir Mix A Lot
Danny Rolling[]
- "Danny Rolling" – The Murder Junkies
Richard Speck[]
- "Born to Raise Hell (Richard Speck)" - Church of Misery
- "Richard Speck Grew Big Breasts" – Macabre
- "What the Heck Richard Speck? (Eight Nurses You Wrecked)" – Macabre
S[]
Shankill Butchers[]
- "Shankill Butchers" – The Decemberists
- "Shankill Butchers" – Sarah Jarosz
Harold Shipman[]
- "Doctor Death ((Harold Shipman))" - Church of Misery
- "Lips of Ashes" – Porcupine Tree
- "What About Us?" - The Fall
Peter Stumpp[]
- "Werewolf of Bedburg" – Macabre
Peter Sutcliffe[]
- "Archives of Pain" - Manic Street Preachers
- "Leeds Ripper" – Throbbing Gristle
- "Leeds United" – Luke Haines
- "Night Shift" – Siouxsie and the Banshees
- "The Ripper" – Pallas
- "Ripping Into Pieces (Peter Sutcliffe)" – Church of Misery
T–Z[]
Timothy McVeigh[]
- "Now It's Time to Pay" – Macabre
Joseph Vacher[]
- "The Ripper Tramp from France" - Macabre
Dorángel Vargas[]
- "El Comegente" - Soulfly
Fred West/Rose West[]
- "25 Cromwell St." - Apoptygma Berzerk
- "Evil" – Interpol
- "Strip the Soul" - Porcupine Tree
Aileen Wuornos[]
- "Aileen" – Willam
- "Disease of Men" – Kristin Hayter[28]
- "Filth Bitch Boogie (Aileen Wuornos)" – Church of Misery
- "Holy Is the Name (Of My Ruthless Axe)" − Kristin Hayter
- "If the Poison Won't Take You My Dogs Will" – Kristin Hayter
- "Poor Aileen" – Superheaven
- "Sixth Of June" – It Dies Today
Graham Frederick Young[]
- "Poison" – Macabre
- "Taste the Pain (Graham Young)" – Church Of Misery
Zodiac Killer[]
- "Dear Editor" – Kamelot
- "Death 2" – Flatbush Zombies
- "Gemini" – Slayer
- "Nostalgia in Lemonade" − Avey Tare
- "Sick of Living (Zodiac)" – Church of Misery
- "Soul Sacrifice" – Santana
- "Venus in Furs" – Electric Wizard
- "The Zodiac" – Kamelot
- "Zodiac" – Macabre
- "Zodiac" – Melvins
- "Zodiac" - Six Feet Under
- "Zodiac (He Is Still Out There.....)" – Christian Death
- "Zodiac Shit" – Flying Lotus
See also[]
- Serial killer
- List of serial killers
- Murder ballad
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Further reading[]
- Olive W. Burt, American Murder Ballads and their Stories, Oxford University Press, New York, 1958
- Olive W. Burt, "Murder Ballads of Mormondom", Western Folklore, 18:2, April 1959, pp. 141–156
- Olive W. Burt, "The Minstrelsy of Murder", Western Folklore, 17:4, October 1958, pp. 263–272
- Daniel A. Cohen, "The Beautiful Female Murder Victim: Literary Genres and Courtship Practices in the Origins of a Cultural Motif, 1590–1850", Journal of Social History, 31:2, Winter 1997, pp. 277–306
- Chet Flippo, "Nashville Skyline: The Subject Was Murder", CMT.com, February 5, 2004
- Will Robinson Sheff, "The Dark Side of Folk: Songs about Murder", Audiogalaxy
- Michael E. Bush, "Murder Ballads in Appalachia", (thesis) Marshal University, Huntington, West Virginia, 1977
- Kenneth D. Tunnel, "99 Years is Almost For Life: Punishment for Violent Crime in Bluegrass Music", The Journal of Popular Culture, 26:3, Winter 1992, pp. 165–181
- Ellen L. O'Brien, "THE MOST BEAUTIFUL MURDER”: THE TRANSGRESSIVE AESTHETICS OF MURDER IN VICTORIAN STREET BALLADS", Victorian Literature and Culture, 28, 2000, pp. 15–37
Further listening (recorded compilations)[]
- Bloody Ballads: Classic British and American Murder Ballads, Sung by Paul Clayton, Ed. by Kenneth S. Goldstein, Riverside Records, New York, 1956 (includes cover notes)
- Blood Booze 'n Bones, Sung by Ed McCurdy, banjo accompaniment by Erik Darling, Elektra Records, 1956 (includes 12 page booklet)
- Murder Ballads, by Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds, Mute Records, 1996
- Murder Metal, Macabre, 2003 (This band appears to have become known for a death metal variation of the murder ballad)
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