Dogmatic

Slayer have sparked controversy with a new song about 9/11 from the terrorists’ viewpoint. The California foursome were fed up with other bands’ American perspective of the attacks on New York and Washington D.C. in 2001, so they wrote their own unique version.

Guitarist/songwriter Jeff Hanneman has angered 9/11 victims’ families with the extremist angled track “Jihad”, which will feature on their new album.

Guitarist Kerry King says, “In America every band under the sun has written their 9/11 song. And that’s why I didn’t want to have any part of it, but this is really cool. It kind of has an ‘Angel of Death’ feel because it doesn’t condemn anyone or say that anyone’s right or wrong.”

Can’t hurt sales can it? Not that Slayer have ever had any probs shifting units, but I’ve got an inkling that this won’t be the last we hear of this!