1987 - "At this point I'd begun viewing Thrash as a kind of offspring of punk... that had the potential to get much bigger though, and address an even wider audience.
I'm a big fan of the Clash... and Joe Strummer said that staying punk was like preaching to the converted, but going more commercial and reaching a wider audience might inspire some of them to start thinking for themselves... He said that if he turned one head around in an audience then he had done his job. So I thought well... the bigger the audience, and the simpler the message... then the better the chances.
Anyway, my little message in that cover was that the path we're on of continuing to believe in falsehoods like religion, war,... misinterpreted physical sciences, and so on... would lead us to a path of destruction. The statues represent religious, military and acdemic figures that I tried to make look not only dangerous, but absurd and devoid of real meaning."
