This song has deep nitszchean overtones. It reminds us that "God" (ie our sense of the transcendental) has died inside our occidental soul, leaving a moral void and great confusion, and making us "soulless and bent on destruction", that is the prey of the savagery inherent to the dark parts of our minds.
Then "the foundations that lasted the ages are ripped apart a the roots". This is a reference to the barbary of the 20th century, that actually combined incredible technological advancement and moral decay, leading to the excesses of WWII and dictatures.
I think that this song is a reflexion on the nature of human psyche, in the light of the 20th century, and on the very real possibility that we could blow ourselves from the face of the earth.
This song has deep nitszchean overtones. It reminds us that "God" (ie our sense of the transcendental) has died inside our occidental soul, leaving a moral void and great confusion, and making us "soulless and bent on destruction", that is the prey of the savagery inherent to the dark parts of our minds.
Then "the foundations that lasted the ages are ripped apart a the roots". This is a reference to the barbary of the 20th century, that actually combined incredible technological advancement and moral decay, leading to the excesses of WWII and dictatures.
I think that this song is a reflexion on the nature of human psyche, in the light of the 20th century, and on the very real possibility that we could blow ourselves from the face of the earth.