What we want is to express the dark, sick, evil side of human soul, that part of soul that lives in each of us and every day it's powerfully trying to come to light in order to disrupt our being. It's the tense for what is ugly, grotesque, unsettling that the genius of Edgar Allan Poe was able to describe sublimely with his poetry and his stories. This is all part of us and we try to celebrate it and, in some cases, exorcise it through our songs. That said, do not take us too seriously. We never do.