In general, sludge metal tends to shy away from sexual topics; it’s sort of against the ethics of the genre. However, I have thought of a few exceptions to this rule, and wanted to make a mix tape of sludge metal songs about sex that a lucky couple could…get it on to. These are the only four I could come up with so far:

Baroness, “Jake Leg” - Definitely about cunnilingus (oral sex performed on a woman). Yes, the album is loosely based on the struggles of Confederate soldiers, but it seems like this soldier got a little lucky:
Lady!
Keep those hounds at bay
Feed me
The fruits of Avalon
The body’s a vessel
The hands find a cure
“Flesh is weak!” and my lip needs a meal
Weak in the knees
And you’re wet on the floor
“Ace of staves!” we will dance evermore…
For those of you not familiar with tarot cards or the occult, the Staves (or wands) symbolize passion and desire. An Ace in this suit represents a pivotal moment that will set forth a chain of events that will lead one to achieving his or her desired goal. In “Jake Leg”, this just means that Da Baiz has a 100% chance of munching on this girl’s peach cobbler. Also, the word “dance” has been used as a euphamism for sex throughout the centuries, so…yeah :)

Electric Wizard, “Venus in Furs” - Not a cover of the Velvet Underground song of the same name, but both songs were inspired by the writings of the same man, Leopold von Sacher-Masoch, the father of Masochism.
I am the Zodiac, I am the stars,
You are the sorceress, my priestess of Mars,
Queen of the night, swathed in satin black,
Your ivory flesh upon my torture rack.
More occult imagery abounds. Mars was the god of war and turbulence, so this could be metaphorical for conquering a woman who was seemingly unconquerable. Either that or Jus Osborne was really stoned when he wrote this and thought the lyrics sounded trippy. I’m kind of leaning towards the latter.

Mastodon, “Stargasm” - Brann Dailor has said that this diddy is about having sex in space, which may or may not have been inspired by a Discovery Channel special on the same theme.
Awake in the moment,
Awaken the heart.
Look to the spirits,
Stargasm glows,
Stargasm…
And then we shift into overdrive,
But you’re not here.
And your legs and the stars collide,
You’re on fire / You’re on fire / You’re on fire…
Sounds like Brann (who likely wrote these lyrics, although Brent sings them) desires a sexual experience that connects him to his partner on a spiritual level, that awakens both parties to the wonders of fucking in the cosmos. There’s also a good deal of owl references in this song. In Celtic mythology, owls were wise messengers that provided insight into secrets and hidden truths, and could act as a medium between earthly creatures and spirits in the underworld. As with many of Dailor’s lyrics, themes of death and the afterlife weigh heavily on his mind, even during orgasmic rapture. Also note that orgasms have been nicknamed “little deaths” in French culture, and the word “die” was often used as a metaphor for an orgasm in the middle ages.

Torche, “Fuck Addict” - Despite the straight-forward name, the lyrics are a wee bit more cryptic (as is typical with sludge metal lyrics). Openly gay front man Steve Brooks probably wrote this one about how much he likes gay sex. That would make sense.
Your expressions explain everything, and I’d like to turn you on.
Pleasure is absence of pain.
Blood is withdrawn from art and joy.
Rest does not restore passion.
My fire will coat your chill, and I’d like to turn you on.
It looks like Steve just really wants to get this guy in the mood and fuck his brains out. He’s reassuring his mate that some really good sex will take his mind off of the negative aspects of life. The line about blood being drawn…well, you can use your imagination on that one. I’m not going to get too smutty here. Steve’s fire coating this guy’s chill simply means that he’s going to come on so hot and heavy to this guy that he will have to get rid of that icy chip on his shoulder and do some sheet-tumbling with Steve by night’s end.
Haha, so that’s all I could come up with. Do you know of any more songs in sludge/stoner/doom metal with overt sexual themes?
“Man is the one who desires, woman the one who is desired. This is woman’s entire but decisive advantage. Through man’s passions, nature has given man into woman’s hands, and the woman who does not know how to make him her subject, her slave, her toy, and how to betray him with a smile in the end is not wise.”
- Leopold Von Sacher-Masoch
This guy was really born during the wrong decade. He was a humanist who wrote books and articles about civil rights and women’s rights during an era when it was completely unpopular to do so, but people today only remember him for the fact that he fully enjoyed being submissive during sex. This is where we get the term Masochism from.
As a little boy in Ukraine, he would hide in his aunt’s closet (where her many fur coats were kept) and watch her have sex with her lover. One day she caught him and beat him, and suddenly a new fetish was born. As an adult, Sacher-Masoch would write a book called Venus In Furs about a man’s journey to find a dominatrix-type woman who would gleefully “punish” him. It was viewed as obscene smut at the time (obviously), but is much appreciated now.
The saddest part is that he never did find his Venus in furs. Every woman he dated or married was repulsed by the notion that he wanted a woman to be dominant in the bedroom. My question is “HOLY SHIT, what was wrong with women back then?!”. You’d think that women during the socially stuffy 1800s would have been eager to take their anger out on a man by whipping him into submission, but nope. Some social conditioning is embedded so deeply that even a liberated man like Sacher-Masoch couldn’t bring out their inner tigers. As a woman who is turned on by the notion of sexually submissive men who like pain inflicted upon him, I would have easily signed up to be this guy’s Venus.
Anyway, this is the guy that Electric Wizard was partially inspired by, and the guy that lent a name to all those freaks who like being bound and gagged. Praise him. Praise him hard. PRAISE HIM HARDER. He likes it rough.

ELECTRIC WIZARD - VENUS IN FURS
I am the Zodiac, I am the stars,
You are the sorceress, my priestess of Mars,
Queen of the night, swathed in satin black,
Your ivory flesh upon my torture rack.
My Venus in Furs.
To your leather boots, I offer prayer,
You rise like a cobra, evil dressed in furs,
But your venom, a black drug inside my veins,
I need it everyday to take away the pain.
My Venus in Furs.
I am Zodiac, I am the Stars, You are the Sorceress, Venus in Furs.
I am the Zodiac.
Also from last night. Good song to listen to before entering a porn shop. Also, I’ve got a little post coming up about the dude who inspired this song…you might not know who he is, but his name is really quite popular these days.



