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"You need a taste of your own medicine."

  • The video for "medicine" has, among other things, the lovely image of a computer-generated Oli being force-fed black, rubbery people.
  • "For Stevie Wonder's Eyes Only" aims for this with such lines as "I whispered in her ear: fear me, dear, for I am death".
  • The song itself is bad enough, but as for the band members' fates in the "Alligator Blood" video:
    • Oli getting the "Death" card, then suddenly convulsing and dropping dead from what appears to be a heart attack. Also, the masked man sitting across from him at the table takes off his mask to reveal he's also Oli.
    • Jona being left to freak out with a spider on his chest.
    • Matt (Kean) presumably transforming into an alligator.
    • Matt (Nicholls) getting mauled by vampires.
    • Lee solving a puzzle, then suddenly getting dragged into the darkness.
  • The artwork for Suicide Season, showing a woman holding her intestines.
  • The "Follow You" video:
    • Especially the part where a non-violent woman is trapped in her car, while everyone else is trying to break in. Eventually, they just blow the car up... with her in it.
    • The opening shot too, where a dog is licking its dead owner's empty eye socket.
  • Halfway through the "MANTRA" video, it cuts to a hallway full of cultists freaking out and the music itself is muffled... and then it kicks back in when Oli screams.
    • The video itself is about Oli starting a cult, who all get hooked on the drugs they're developing, and they all go batshit insane and essentially become militants.
    • At one point, Oli is cheerfully brainwashing one of his followers, leaving her panicking and convulsing in her chair. It's either Black Comedy or this.
    • The ending of the video: The cult followers have a funeral for Oli after he commits suicide. They all follow along with him (except for his second in command). Who then all are killed ala-electric shock. And then the second in command is hit and she explodes. The worst part is the ending where it's implied Oli isn't dead, wanting his cult to kill themselves.
  • "nihilist blues", which already feels claustrophobic with the lyrical themes of being trapped in a "labyrinth" (probably a metaphor for drug addiction) and asking to "please don't follow".
    • Grimes's inclusion does not help, adding more an eerie feel.
  • Almost five minutes into "Underground Big {HEADFULOFHYENA}", we hear what sounds like a choir, chopped up and distorted in an ominous-sounding loop. That loop is repeated for an uncomfortably long time, before Oli finally chimes in, rambling and seemingly trying to hypnotize the listener. This lasts for nineteen minutes before abruptly ending.
  • Being largely inspired by the COVID-19 Pandemic and its widespread repercussions, POST HUMAN: SURVIVAL HORROR is naturally full of Nightmare Fuel.
    • The album starts off with "Dear Diary," arguably the band's heaviest song since their deathcore days, complete with lyrics inspired by the Keeper's Diary from Resident Evil. Of course, the T-Virus in this song is a reference to COVID-19.
    • "Parasite Eve" continues the trend. It starts off with a sample of a traditional Bulgarian folk song, which almost sounds like the chants of an apocalyptic cult in the album's context. However, the scariest part of the song is undeniably the chorus, featuring a build-up with Alissa Salls — Oli's wife, that is — declaring such cheerful lines like "The end has arrived, we cannot save you" in a Creepy Monotone. The chorus's lyrics are undeniably catastrophist in nature, and question whether humanity will actually strive to do better after this pandemic.
    • "Obey" takes a detour but it's no less unsettling - instead this song talks about the increasingly authoritarian slant of some of the world's largest national governments. It could be best described as if Mick Gordon made a song for a Nineteen Eighty-Four movie adaptation; undeniably awesome, but still deeply frightening.
      Just don't wake up and smell the corruption...
    • The album reaches its scariest point with two of the last three songs, "1x1" and "One Day the Only Butterflies Left Will Be in Your Chest as You March Towards Your Death". The former has Oli sing about how humanity has ripped itself apart with senseless prejudices over ethnical, gender, religious and sexuality differences, and that at the end of the day we all carry the weight of these terrible actions; the latter instead features Amy Lee as Mother Nature giving an absolutely caustic "The Reason You Suck" Speech to humanity for not stopping climate change from going out of control and that she won't be there to help them when the time comes because, quoth her, we're better off dead and we deserve everything that's coming.
  • The "sTraNgeRs" music video. We are treated to scenes of people (representing mental health issues) suffering, among them are:

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