It wasn't all kill, kill, kill, however.
"They came to kill, kill, kill," Mr. Sami said.
Songs like "My World," "Shoot Me Again," and "Purify" barrel forward; the album closer, "All Within My Hands," is an eight-minute-plus assault that ends with Hetfield yowling, "Kill, kill, kill, kill, kill".
Another man fled into a fast-flowing river, pursued by attackers throwing rocks and shouting "kill, kill, kill".
Things turn scary: Vincent Price delivers ghoulish speeches, and we hear the mantra of hockey-masked Jason: "Kill, kill, kill".
He has been thinking all day, 'Kill, kill, kill.' You can't expect him to change his mentality.
"There are times," he wrote, "when, confronted with the despicable behavior of people in the American theater, I feel like Lear on the heath, wanting to kill, kill, kill, kill, kill, kill!" The book generated considerable attention in theater circles, most of it positive, and the next year the Repertory Theater of Lincoln Center hired Mr. Blau and Mr. Irving as joint directors.
After a woman ends her relationship with Cobain, the writing in his journals turns scarily unhinged -- Kill yourself kill yourself kill kill kill kill kill kill rape rape rape rape rape rape is good, rape is good, rape kill rape greed greed good greed good rape yes kill" -- before directing its bile inward: "I am bad".
"The Army could teach you to kill, kill, kill, but they can't teach you to come back home and be a civilian," he says.
He reproaches himself as someone who is "empty within" or harboring evil impulses: "It's in our nature to kill, kill, kill," he sang as the audience shouted along.
Racists chant slogans such as "Get out of our country", and "Kill, kill, kill Koreans".Perhaps for the first time, this is becoming a problem for Japan's politicians and spin doctors (to say nothing of the poor Koreans).
