What does Mandatory Suicide mean?

Slayer: Mandatory Suicide Meaning

Tagged: Suicide | War [suggest]
Album cover for Mandatory Suicide album cover

Mandatory Suicide Lyrics

Murder at your every foot step
A childs toy sudden death
Sniper blazes you through your knees
Falling down can you feel the heat
Burn!

Ambushed by the spray of lead
Count the bullet holes in your head
Offspring sent out to cry
Living...

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    #1 top rated interpretation:
    anonymous
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    Jan 10th 2011 !⃝

    It is about the G.I.s in the jungle during the Vietnam War. It references many traps the Vietcong set, such as toys made into bombs and the punji pits. The "blood is cheap" part is about the many young men who died during the war.
    Also, it's "pain shears to your brain," not "pain sheers to your brain"

  2. anonymous
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    Jun 24th 2015 !⃝

    This song is about soldiers performing their duties in combat without hesitation! However much the odds are stacked against them. SUICIDE MISSIONS

  3. anonymous
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    Jul 16th 2012 !⃝

    I agree with the interpretation given by >Anonymous: Jan 10th 2011, 22:43< however, I would like to add to the interpretation. I think "mandatory suicide" is also in reference to the draft.

  4. anonymous
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    Feb 20th 2010 !⃝

    during the gallic wars a roman legion was surrounded by the gauls and every roman soldier committed suicide because they were going to be killed anyway. i think this is what the song is about but in a more modern sense.

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  5. anonymous
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    Sep 19th 2007 !⃝

    Mandatory suicide is about finding your true love and not living until you do... and when you find your true love you get mega props brew....... I found my true love by listening to this true song... live on slayer

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  6. anonymous
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    Nov 16th 2006 !⃝

    The song is about the horrors of war and sending soldiers to their deaths for no reason.

  7. specialk2319
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    Jul 24th 2006 !⃝

    It's about soldiers who belong to an infantry unit who know for sure the enemy is about to kill them all and mandatory suicide is the only way to end their sheer terror. The soldiers kill themselves or kill each other because they know the enemy is going to kill them anyway. There is nowhere to retreat to and why prolong the inevitable?Just seconds away from their butchdering they end it themselves.'mandatory suicide...Massacre on the frontline'


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