55.IT Is The End Source: Ice Nine Kills Villain: Pennywise the Dancing Clown Nominator: Bane (2 left) Favorite lyric: You know what makes me smile? / Devoured juveniles / Their innards tangled in my twisted grin
I've really never cared for Ice Nine Fucking Kills. Had some friends that were real into them back in high school, ended up going to one of their local shows, and they just weren't good. As the years have gone by, that opinions never really changed. Their music is aggressively mediocre. Again, that's partly due to me just really not caring for metalcore as a genre, particularly metalcore of the 2010s. It saddens me to, as I ideally like what they did with the album, each track being based on a different horror film. I'm a sucker for concept albums, and by another band I might like this, though the lyrics are hit or miss for me too. Puns like "I've got some big fucking shoes to fill" and "I'm not clowning around" make it feel kind of shallow, despite it overall doing a good job at capturing the sense of the character. Villainy-wise, I don't think I have to explain myself. Putting this at any less than a 10 there would be a blatant lie, and that's largely what ends up placing this song so high in the ranking.
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