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MetalKings.com: Well let's talk over the new album. As far as I got from the press release this album deals with Vietnam War?
Tom Angelripper: In the press aim it seems to be a Vietnam concept album. But you are quite right. We used a little bit of stuff from the Vietnam ‘cause everybody knows the Vietnam War movies and if you see an M-16 rifle, you always think about Vietnam. However, if you read the lyrics you will find out that it’s not especially Vietnam. I was going to write about my life in a lyrical way with historical facts, you know. The message is that if you read between the lines, the message is to stop the war. This is an anti-war album. Vietnam war I think was one of the bloodiest. It was so absurd because Americans love the war. Now the situation is – we are bringing the new album next week and a lot of people will say, “Oh, come on. Why are you bringing it out now when the war is going to restart?” That’s the thing, all the time at any place in the world there is a war going on, for example, when we wrote “Better Off Dead” the material there was about Gulf Crisis, when we wrote “Code Red” there was the Kosovo crisis. There is a war conflict at any time and any place – and my opinion is also in the lyrics. What would shock people a little bit – is the front cover design. But the people have to realize that we don’t want to have war, if there’s no more war it is good, I will have to write about other themes like peace or love.
This is a death metal band.
The dude's name is "Tom Angelripper".