Slayer's Most Controversial Lyrics: A Look at War, Occult and Murder Themes in Thrash Metal
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Jon Wiederhorn
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A retrospective article examining Slayer's most shocking and controversial lyrics across their 30-plus year career, focusing on the band's recurring themes of war, the occult/religion, and murder. The piece highlights how guitarist Kerry King described the band's approach to taboo subjects, often writing from the perspective of perpetrators of violent acts.
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· 3 pulledIn interviews, guitarist Kerry King has spoken about how the band usually touched on one of three taboo-pushing themes: war, the occult/religion and murder.
During their 30-plus years of songwriting, Slayer crafted some of the angriest, sickest and most lyrically graphic songs in the history of thrash.
It isn't just the subject matter of Slayer's songs that makes them so ghastly, it's also the way the band addressed those themes — often as if they were the perpetrators of the insidious acts
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