If you think Slayer have anything positive to say about religion you're really barking up the wrong tree with that and you should maybe try Amy Grant or Vengeance Rising or some bullshit like that. In this case they're just playing the cover like it was written. Don't expect punk bands to be the least bit consistent or coherent, ever.
This song is about someone who went crazy from an addiction to religion, and then turned to heroin.
These lines
"Burning acid bath
Pulmonary wrath
Feel the boiling surge
It won't let you go"
are about heroin withdrawal.
Sounds like he might also have been a murderer. Who the hell knows. This had to have been an Araya pick, he's always been all about serial killers, murderers and other filth.
If you think Slayer have anything positive to say about religion you're really barking up the wrong tree with that and you should maybe try Amy Grant or Vengeance Rising or some bullshit like that. In this case they're just playing the cover like it was written. Don't expect punk bands to be the least bit consistent or coherent, ever.
This song is about someone who went crazy from an addiction to religion, and then turned to heroin.
These lines
"Burning acid bath Pulmonary wrath Feel the boiling surge It won't let you go"
are about heroin withdrawal.
Sounds like he might also have been a murderer. Who the hell knows. This had to have been an Araya pick, he's always been all about serial killers, murderers and other filth.