Napalm Shower
1987 · New Renaissance NRR23 · USA
- Artist
- Wehrmacht
- Title
- Napalm Shower
- Release
- Shark Attack
- Year
- 1987
- Label
- New Renaissance # NRR23
- Language
- English
- Country
- USA
- Genre
- Metal · Thrash Metal
- Primary theme
- Post-War
Annotation
Crossover Thrash and Thrashcore group, formed in 1985 in Portland, Oregon, USA, featuring Tito Matos [aka Tape Head Tito] (vocals), Marco Zorich [aka Marco Sharko] (guitar), John Duffy (guitar), Shann Mortimer (bass), Brian Lehfeldt (drums). They released the song "Napalm Shower" (New Renaissance Records # NRR23) about general war destruction, a reflection of Cold War fears: "one flick of the switch, and we're all dead". It referenced the weapon used most widely by the US government in the Vietnam War, as also noted in the title of the song: "napalm spreads on, our city is gone". Chemical weapon Napalm B is a jellied gasoline mixture, with polystyrene, benzene, and gasoline. Declared a war-crime since 1980, the US government extensively used this weapon during the Vietnam conflict, dropping 388,000 tons on Indochina between 1963 and 1973.123Sources1Napalm: An American Biography (Robert M. Neer, 2013)↩2Times Higher Education: Napalm an american biography by robert m neer↩3Napalm, An American Biography (book website)↩
Annotation by Justin A. Brummer
Lyrics
English: One flick of the switch, and we're all dead / One nation destroyed, it moves on ahead / Bombs destroy everything here, no time to live / Or cry a tear, beg for your life, down on your knees / War-mongers hate! Kill as they please / Fallout is arising, people vaporising, the blast is so bright / It takes out your sight, cars over-turned / Houses are burned, nature is lost, to total chaos / Deathly air, everywhere, decaying flesh, here and there / Napalm spreads on, our city is gone / Evert the task, what more could you ask? / It's just too late, we agree with fate / Our governments fucked, and we were all shucked
About the artist
Wehrmacht is an American crossover-thrash band formed in 1985 in Portland, Oregon, whose "Napalm Shower" appears on the debut album "Shark Attack" (New Renaissance, 1987); a second album, "Biermacht", followed the same year. The band split in 1992, reunited in 2009, and remains active. [Source: band's Bandcamp; Last.fm wiki]