I can't count the number of times I've run into two or all three of them in the audience at one show or another. Despite the ferocity of their playing and the ungodly vocals, Macabre's music never fails to bring wide smiles to the faces of all who hear it. The grins are due in part to the rhyming lyrics, reminiscent of children's poetry. C.D. says that his main influence is Dr. Seuss, whose books he'd read as a kid. It's fun music.
Rhymes are fun, and their subject is crazy deeds.
But the major reason for Macabre listeners' mirth is the band's penchant for incorporating familiar melodies into their songs. There's a double pleasure in hearing innocent and familiar melodies harnessed to grizzly tales. On their new release Dahmer , Macabre's artful ingenuity really comes into its own. And Through The Woods. It's about the harrowing plight of Jews under the Nazi's terrible reign rendered in cartoon form, with Jews drawn as mice and Germans as cats.