Dr. Pest Lyrics in English Die Apokalyptischen Reiter

Meet Dr. Pest, the night-marish ringmaster of Die Apokalyptischen Reiter’s dark carnival. Behind a polite daytime façade, he slips into his true skin after sunset: half devil, half child, wielding whips and blades with morbid grace. The lyrics paint him as a twisted “priest of fantasy,” obsessed with fear, agony, and absolute control. He toys with his “subjects,” flaying away their outer layer—both literally and metaphorically—until only raw vulnerability remains, because for him pain equals love.

Yet there’s more here than shock value. The song warns of how charisma and authority can hide monstrous urges, how cruelty can masquerade as art, and how hubris crumbles when confronted by real terror. By celebrating torment as a perverse form of devotion, Dr. Pest forces us to question why society is both repelled by and fascinated with violence. It’s a gothic morality tale set to pounding metal: unsettling, theatrical, and unforgettable.