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  • Tori Amos's "Raspberry Swirl" seems to be just a fun electronic dance song at first until you attempt to decipher the lyrics and discover that the song might be about having sex with a woman on her period. If this interpretation is anything to go by, one could reasonably assume that the titular "raspberry swirl" is a mixture of menstrual blood and semen.
  • Death Metal has this some of the time in its lyrics (when it's not being plainly Satanic) and goregrind has it as a rule. Particularly notable is UK band Carcass, with songs with names like "Genital Grinder" and "Oxidized Razor Masticator".
    • Cryptopsy's original vocalist, Dan Greening, was often referred to as Lord Worm as he would usually dig up worms and eat them ON STAGE.
    • Skinless's original M.O. was to create this by taking Toilet Humor up to eleven.note  Their defining example, "Tampon Lollipops", is about a night janitor goes around fishing used tampons out of the trash and eating them.
  • Dir en grey are masters of this. Almost any performance video will have something nauseating in it (uncensored "OBSCURE", "AGITATED SCREAMS OF MAGGOTS", and "mazohyst of decadence" are all notorious) and Kyo will occasionally intentionally vomit onstage.
  • hide's lyrics and a couple of videos were occasionally given to this. "Bacteria" and its video is one good example.
  • The disturbing prose-poem from Swans' "Your Game", which was originally published as part of The Consumer (see Literature).
  • The music video for the song "Sick, Sick, Sick" by Queens of the Stone Age involves a beautiful upper-class woman eating a huge banquet of greasy, sweaty meat. Greasy, sweaty human meat.
  • The music video for "Sexy And I Know It" by LMFAO, which has a man in a thong thrusting into the camera for much of its duration.
  • Constipation Blues, by Screamin Jay Hawkins is a blues song written around Nobody Poops and eventually averting the trope.
  • Night T2 - Night T4 by the noise act The Gerogerigegege consists solely of a (possibly simulated) 4-minute long bowel movement.
  • The music video for "In Decay" by the obscure band Phedre aims for this - it even ends with actual vomiting over animal carcasses.
  • Green Day's "Geek Stink Breath" video can be this, as it features graphic, up-close footage of teeth being pulled - the patient was a friend of the band who agreed to have his real-life dentist visit filmed for the video. The uncensored version was only played on MTV late at night, with an alternate cut that used less of the dentist scenes and more shots of the band performing airing during other time-slots. The dentist footage loosely ties in with the lyrical content, by the way: It's about methamphetamine addiction, which is associated with bad oral health (hence the line "and it's rotting out my teeth").
  • The music video for Butcher's Harem's 'Clinical Sodomy'. Somehow the jittery, low-quality 3D animation makes it loads worse. Also doubles as Nightmare Fuel.
  • "Jowles" by Buckethead, in which guest vocalist Les Claypool describes...umm....whatever this is:
    Les Claypool: They take the noggin, and they cook it down except for the larynx, and they tear all the chunks away from the bone. They use a grab bag, they don't throw nothin' away. They use the jowls, and the sheiks, and the collar, and the eyeballs, and the tendons, and the sniffer, and the mouth meat, and all the flesh and boil it down to a big jelly of fat.
  • Nirvana's "Mexican Seafood", which plays a bizarre STD for gross-out humor:
    Now I vomit cum and diarrhea
    On the tile floor like oatmeal pizza
    Fill my toilet bowl full of a cloudy
    Pus, I feel the blood becoming chowder rust
  • The music video for "A.F.F.C.O." by New Zealand rock band The Skeptics consists of real footage from slaughterhouses of sheep being killed and butchered. Vegans and vegetarians are strongly cautioned.
  • C. W. McCall: "Audubon" mentions that "It was so doggone hot I had to wet the bed in the summer just to keep cool".
  • The music video for "Yummy" by Justin Bieber features Justin at a fine dining event. Not too bad, except instead of featuring Food Porn of appetizing dishes, it uses bizarre food choices such as gelatins, aspics, and other unidentified food with bright and saturated colors. Not helped are the camera motions and the close-ups of people eating.
  • A Chance to Cut is a Chance to Cure is a 2001 album by Matmos, the songs on which largely sample surgical procedures. The song "lipostudio...and so on" is built around the squishy sound of fat being sucked through a liposuction tube, and "California Rhinoplasty" consists of the sounds of rhinoplasty (i.e. nose cartilage being crushed and cut through). One may feel some serious Fridge Horror thinking about what, exactly, created each sound on the record.
  • The album covers for Metallica's Load and ReLoad just look like abstract art pieces at first, and that's true... but they get a whole lot more disturbing and disgusting once you realize that they're by controversial artist Andres Serrano, who often uses bodily fluids in his work: these two albums in particular use cow blood mixed with the artist's semen (for Load, making the title a Stealth Pun) and urine (for ReLoad).

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