Top 20 unholy songs

What would it be like to sleep with Jesus Christ? That is the burning question facing "Christian Woman"'s heroine, whose sacrilegious fantasies and primal urge for Corpus Christi are causing her some serious spiritual strife. Of course, it wouldn't be Type O without some campy lines to keep us all in check. "For her lust / she'll burn in hell / her soul done medium well." Okay, guys. Ironically enough, Mr. Peter Steele himself has recently come out as a born again Christian. Guess he has some explaining to do.

In "Closer," the hit single off NIN's epic "The Downward Spiral," Trent Reznor explored the sexually depraved side of his psyche, but he saved the real guns for the album's third track. "Heresy" is, in both lyrics and pulsating melody, a raw, unbridled assault against all that is holy. The chorus is a catchy anthem for every disillusioned misfit who suffered through Sunday School: "God is dead / and no one cares / If there is a hell / I'll see you there" Amen!

Though much of the rap music that gets played on the radio these days is lacking lyrical substance, there was a time when a forward-thinking group like Dead Prez could still get signed to a major record label. On "Propaganda," the Brooklyn based rappers raise all kinds of uncomfortable questions. The one that rings the loudest is, "If God made man / Why the hell would he put us here?" This might as well be a Gorgoroth song with a hip hop backbeat.

In which an army of ghouls infest a chapel, turn a crucifix upside down, and ultimately murder a priest. "Chapel Of Ghouls" is like a Clive Barker novel squeezed into a 5 minute death metal song. David Vincent's monstrous vocal performance and Trey Azagthoth's guitar work still dazzles, two decades later. Hating religion has rarely sounded this great.

We probably could have exclusively filled this list with Slayer songs but that would have been too easy. The Los Angeles thrash legends have built their career on a discography packed with anti-religious rants, so it would have been a crime to exclude them here.