Ghost Tape Number 10
2022 · Listenable POSH654 · UK: England
- Artist
- Xentrix
- Title
- Ghost Tape Number 10
- Release
- Seven Words
- Year
- 2022
- Label
- Listenable # POSH654
- Format
- Album
- Country
- UK: England
- Genre
- Metal · Thrash Metal
- Primary theme
- Post-War
Annotation
Thrash Metal group, formed in 1985 in Preston, Lancashire, UK, with a revolving line-up, released the song "Ghost Tape Number 10" (Listenable Records # POSH654), probably a reference to "Operation Wondering Soul", a propaganda campaign employed by the US during the Vietnam War - in which the US played a tape on the South Vietnamese loudspeaker system throughout rural areas, with voices acting the sounds of slain VC soldiers, to encourage desertions and defections, a type of psychological warfare.1 Narrated from the perspective of the VC, a soldier noted "beware the voices taunting me... weaponised beliefs deployed as spiritual warfare".Sources1Wikipedia: Operation Wandering Soul↩
Annotation by Justin A. Brummer
Lyrics
English: Honest ground to kill zone of trick and deviation / Strategise the sky, rain down to penetrate the mind / Settle now to listen back at misdirection / Reaching out, a threat of voices haunt the same / Beware the voice the speaks to me / Some other void can never be / Affect the host psychology / Beware the voices taunting me / Hard to avoid but never seen / It's hell out here now my body's gone / I'm never coming back, m condemned to wonder on / Here with me all are fallen men / Signed off, the haunted cry / This message ends / From ghost tape number 10 / Liars down adorns a lesson deception / Weaponised beliefs deployed as spiritual warfare / Summoning retreat from each and all direction / Demoralised, they'll need they're bodies found to be saved / Beware the voice the speaks to me / Some other void can never be / Affect the host psychology / Beware the voices taunting me / Hard to avoid but never seen / You might also like / It's hell out here now my body's gone / I'm never coming back, m condemned to wonder on / Here with me all are fallen men / Signed off, the haunted cry / This message ends / From ghost tape number 10
About the artist
Thrash Metal group, formed in 1985 in Preston, Lancashire, UK, with a revolving line-up.