Terrorists

Appears on:

Sonic degeneracy - Vol. II: Psychotic crescendo

(Full-length, 2024)

Fragments of degeneracy

(Split/Compilation, 2024)

Written in november 2015, rewritten in may 2017.

Trivia

This song was my immediate reaction to the Bataclan attack, back in 2015: on one hand denouncing the evils of islamic terrorism, while on the other hand not spiraling into the conservative christian hysteria that seemed to be the most common reaction to the event back then (i.e. the fallacious idea of "using christianity as a wall against Islam"). The lyrics start deceitfully, attacking Islam without restraint, and then turning those same accusations against christianity and judaism, showing how all these religions can be easily used for questionable ends, based on the most "convenient" interpretations of their sacred texts. Religion itself is the problem here, being too ambiguous, subjective and easy to twist to the interpretation that fits you better. Take a desperate population, give them a god or a prophet to fight for, and watch them do the dirty work for you.

Musically, the song feels like Sodom-style german thrash and Bay Area thrash meeting somewhere in between. A mixture I needed to try at least once.

Lyrics

Terrorists attack us all

In the name of Allah

They want to destroy the civilization

We built with so much effort

No freedom, no pleasure, no modernity

Sharia is the only true law

They hate the foundations of our society

And they have declared us war

Desperate people from desperate countries

Driven by an ancestral cult

Manipulated by hateful leaders

Revenge against the west

Fanatics and suicide bombers

Believing in afterlife

This is the true face of Islam

Stop denying this fact

"Moderate muslims", don't you realize

Your book is full of shit

Sugar-coated interpretations

Cannot deny this evidence

And you, western christians, don't be too smug

You are guilty of that as well

You think you are modern and civilized

But what about the Old Testament?

Islam, judaism, christianity

Just different faces of the same coin

Religions of peace based on holy books

Which can justify any war

One religion, thousands of sects

Each one a different interpretation

One book, hundreds of theologians

Trying to justify the obsolete

Violence and bloodshed, no one cares

That's all "symbolic", y'know?

This is the "moderate" interpretation

But who said it's the righteous one?

Peaceful christians behaving as if

Only New Testament exists

But when you have to discriminate

Old Testament's always helpful

Abrahamic religions, so multifaceted

To suit any customer's order

Holy books filled with contradictions

Just take the lines you enjoy

The Bible, the Torah and the Quran

Can be legitimately used

To interfere in politics, to kill the infidels

Or to reclaim a whole land

So there you have it, my dear folks

All religion is bad

There is no "good against evil" this time

Traditionalism can't help us

Religious infiltration in public institutions

A threat to freedom and reason

Christianity can't be the answer to Islam

Laicism's the only solution

Terrorists attack us all

In the name of Allah

But that's just the symptom of a greater evil

Which is religion itself

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