YMMV / Ice Nine Kills

• Alternative Character Interpretation:
  • "The Greatest Story Ever Told" is commonly interpreted as being sung Through the Eyes of Madness, with a jealous stalker killing the woman he's obsessed with and planning to kill her lover next. However, you can also take the song's lyrics at face value: the woman's lover killed her and the narrator is out on a Roaring Rampage of Revenge.
  • "The Fastest Way To a Girl's Heart is Through Her Ribcage": the narrator is in an on-and-off relationship with a woman he believes to be a serial killer (and/or vampire, as per the music video). Is he correct in his assumptions? Or is this a Through the Eyes of Madness Misogyny Song narrated by a man who believes women to be "inherently sick"?
• Creepy Awesome: Their career is built on this, and the more they've veered into horror themes, the better their albums have sold.
• Nightmare Fuel: As a band that deals in horror imagery, this is frequent. Some examples:
  • "IT is the End", with its creepy circus motifs and graphic descriptions of "devoured juveniles" and tangled innards.
  • "The Jig is Up" is screamed/growled most of the way through and has its share of gory imagery (fitting for a song about the Saw franchise).
  • The stabbing sounds and dying screams at the end of "Your Number's Up".
  • "The Greatest Story Ever Told", narrated by a clearly unstable man out for murder.
• Tear Jerker:
  • "Tess-Timony", a gentle Rape and Revenge ballad, especially its ending ("So officer, please, that's the man who's destroyed my existence!") The fan film that uses the song as its basis also qualifies.
  • The quiet, dejected ending of "The Nature of the Beast":
    Where is the end? What have we done?
    We're what we swore we'd not become
    Despite intent, a noble heart still bleeds
    Time goes on and history repeats.
  • The very emotional and melodic "A Grave Mistake", especially these lines: "Payback for what you took from me / Hope, love, sanity".
  • The ballad-style song "Love Bites", about a man under a certain curse who only desires to be killed by the woman he fell in love with.
    It's done, so put me down…
  • The Cabin Fever series is a mean-spirited, bloody affair, but "A Rash Decision" puts surprising focus on the tragic side of the first film: a group of ordinary, innocent people, who took a weekend to get away and ended up dying, one after the other, in some of the most horrible ways possible. Special mention goes to the final breakdown, which almost sounds like a Dying Dream from Paul:
    The only peace is a place inside my mind
    The only peace is the past, rewind
    'Cause all was well once upon a time
    The only peace is a place inside my mind
    The only place where I could never leave her
    And we defeat the fever...