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Take me to the Black Lodge where you live...

Even the goofiest of the Big Four of Thrash are capable of dishing out some dark tracks from time to time.

  • The haunting intros to "Now It's Dark", "Packaged Rebellion", "Blood", "Potters Field" and "Fight 'Em Till You Can't", the latter with an imitation of a PSA as though an actual Zombie Apocalypse is taking place.
  • "Intro to Reality", "Inside Out", "Black Dahlia", and "Crawl".
  • The video for "Black Lodge" is about a Mad Doctor trying to restore his unresponsive wife by kidnapping a young woman to fuel a form of Psychic Link. Instead of the wife recovering, the younger woman is as broken as the wife by the end, and a wall of photos shows the doctor has tried this over and over on dozens of women.
  • The video of "What Doesn't Die" has the band in fighting a Zombie Apocalypse, with Rob Caggiano's screaming guitars and John Bush's singing adding to the foreboding atmosphere.
    • "A stream of consciousness flows into a river of blood...stem this tide of violence...as it rises like a flood..."
  • The lyric videos of "Evil Twin" and "Zero Tolerance" are hard and grim reminders of the atrocities committed throughout history in the name of ideology.
  • The video to "Blood Eagle Wings". ABSOLUTELY NSFW. Brutal doesn't even begin to describe it! The monologue in the end of this video, however, may count as a Funny Moment.
  • The video of "Monster at the End" is this and a Funny Moment.
  • Last Note Nightmare: "Be dangerous..... and unpredictable..... and make a lot of noise." (static) -"This is Not an Exit" from Sound of White Noise.

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