A track called “Eyes of the Insane,” [Tom] Araya said, is perhaps the most political song on the new Slayer album. The song was inspired by an article he’d read in an issue of Texas Monthly magazine.
“The song’s about the effects of war on some of these soldiers,” he said. “This article — and it was a pretty trippy article — it really affected me. The entire magazine was devoted to soldiers of this new Iraq conflict that’s going on. The effect that the war has had on some of these kids who’re coming home and having a tough time dealing with what they’ve seen — I mean, some of these kids are traumatized and mentally destroyed by what they’ve seen. The magazine also ran an entire list of the soldiers from Texas who’ve died. It was several pages with pictures of these kids. It blew my mind.”
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