Despite Gein's unexplainable crimes, Mudvayne took a shot at understanding what made him tick. In "Nothing to Gein," lyrics posted at Genius reveal the band describing Gein's "sheltered life" with his mother, who they said maintained his "innocence" by protecting him from the outside world. The band uses the song to paint the scene of the killer wearing "aprons of flesh" and the skin of corpses on his face, and even suggests that the Butcher of Plainfield, as Gein was dubbed, believed that his mother's love was the only kind with meaning.
Singer Chad Gray shed light on the cause of his fascination with the killer when he spoke with Maximum Ink in 2001. In particular, he said that he found the unique relationship between Gein and his mother cathartic amid parental issues of his own that he was dealing with at the time.
Regardless of the band's interest in Gein, McDonough acknowledged that the killer had to be removed from society. During his talk with Unearthed, McDonough said, "Still, I think Ed Gein reminds us that we live in a very mysterious, ever-changing, moving, the potential universe."
(Discovery+ will stream the documentary Ed Gein: The Real Psycho beginning April 9.)
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