BAND IN THE LAND OF DEATH

We have been hearing some strange music for a while. In the heavy metal track called Life by the Band of Death, the sound of erratic and loud percussion is missing. Where is the BoD's savage drummer The Terrorist, who rips up the fabric of old-fashioned peace with his wild rhythm patterns from time to time? Because of his hibernation, Life won't make news. In the heavy metal world of bomb-dom, the song's minimalism can never work because there won't be any blood on the tracks.

Most of us don't know why the BoD is such a huge success. With its songs titled Blood, Devastation and Kill When You Can – the last giving rise to the word bomb-dom – it has rocked the establishment like nothing ever has. Whenever the band has performed, the masses have been pulverized and the hospitals over-burdened by colossal tragedies. After the act has packed up and left for some other city to play the same songs, the all-lying politicians have groped for explanations about why they came, how they performed, and why they disappeared before the establishment reacted to the possibility of their arrival in the city.

All we know about the BoD is that The Terrorist is a drums-pounding robot who has a blast from time to time. Although his rhythms are monitored by a faceless enigma from a vague somewhere, he is the star of every BoD rock show that assaults us out of blue. Seldom does the establishment track down his act because The Terrorist himself does not know when he is going to play, and where. He destroys because he is drugged; while the mastermind who supplies the narcotics never shows up because he does not have the courage to confront the establishment.

If The Terrorist can't be heard in Life today, that is since the brain behind tracks like Blood and Devastation is busy composing a new song somewhere. So, let us not take Life too seriously. It is not worth it, Devastation being that super hit BoD track we will hear soon.