The first song to be written for the album. We were still rehearsing at The Studio in Hockley when I came up with this bass riff. I’d written it at home, determined to come up with something fast and heavy. I was expecting Jake to let me down gently with how much he hated it, but to my surprise his jaw visibly dropped. “That’s f*ckin’ ace!” was all he could muster. The way this song kicks in just blows me away, every time. It’s a complete onslaught on the senses.
If I remember rightly the lyrics were going to be about werewolves…
But the Iraq war had more poignancy.
The bass harmonic right at the end was something that Jake had picked up on. He suggested echoing it in time with Andy’s cymbal hits for the next track, The Nihilist. Two minutes of Ajeet Gill’s magic made this anomaly become a brilliant outro/intro.
This bloodshed is a consequence
Of a spineless majority
Your position as a Christian dictator violates all
Wearing the bells of a fool.
Blood. Pain. Oil. War.
Bitten by Christ
But you’re bleeding out oil.
Smitten by a god,
But you’re sleeping with sin
