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Jihad / Freezing Moon
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The track ‘Grisly Din Of Killing Steel’ was actually meant for the first album and the lyrics were inspired by the September 11th terrorist attack in America. We unearthed it and re-moulded the arrangements for Jihad. The Label's request that the concept appear on CD necessitated two extra tracks. The first being the ‘Tanks in the Holy Land’ instrumental, and the other a demo recording of Hawkwinds ‘Assassins of Allah’. This was a moment when Jaldaboath decided to leave the band as Metatron did not wish to pursue with the musical direction on Jihad. Jaldaboath was also unhappy with the promotion Supernal was putting into the release. [There was none].
Lyrically the songs are woven together to reveal the more than often potent weapons fanatics can employ against their supposed enemies. Whilst we as a band respect any religion that promotes peace, we cannot ignore the tragic darker under belly that is the warped sense of values sewn into the minds of the psychopathic wankers who use religion as a medium to express their own obscene vision of justice Both Western and eastern cultures share an equal burden for this legacy which has festered within religion since its conception.
From the Catholic inquisition and subsequent Crusades to the suicide bombers of the Middle East and beyond. In the name of peace we kill, rape and enslave. In the name of Gods we suppress other gods and so it goes on and on.
The Mead's of Asphodel believe in any people’s right to cherish freedom and to have a place to call their home whoever and wherever they may be.
Used wisely religion can become what it preaches and yet history tells a different tale. Religion is a tragic failure of human frailty where the innocence and placid nature of its doctrines are manipulated into obscene machinations of war and oppression.
Only when the gods are dead
Shall we truly be free.
Source: themeadsofasphodel.com
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