During a recent interview with Screamer Magazine, Stormtroopers Of Death (S.O.D.) bassist Dan Lilker reflected on the band’s controversial lyrics. He says the group “knew what [they] were doing” and that he doesn’t “regret any of it.”
Lilker said the following:
“There were some people that we did wanna piss off a little bit, but if you couldn’t tell that we were kind of being just obnoxious and provocative… People weren’t looking at the big picture.
We also had a song on the record about being hung over and having no milk in the fridge. And you had to step out a little bit. And by the way, ‘Fuck The Middle East’ is still relevant. And we wrote a song about a guy in a movie with impossibly long fingers who would fucking slice your throat off with.
So, sure, calling the record ‘Speak English Or Die’ — and we’re not gonna get into the cancel culture conversation, by the way. I know that [the S.O.D. album] couldn’t happen today, and we all know that. But let’s just say that we knew what we were doing. I don’t regret any of it.
I know some people might’ve thought, ‘That’s over the line,’ but then we weren’t really like that. We were just being perhaps a tiny bit reckless, but S.O.D. was about the music. The lyrics were just kind of like — I was gonna say icing on the cake, but it’s more like salt. I don’t know.”
[via Blabbermouth]
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