The Post noted similar parallels in a song by the heavy metal band Drowning Pool: “‘Let the bodies hit the floor, let the bodies hit the floor, let the bodies hit the floor,’ the singer barks in a refrain that carries an eerie echo in the context of the shooting rampage Saturday in Tucson.”
Members of Drowning Pool disagree. “‘Bodies’ was written about the brotherhood of the mosh pit and the respect people have for each other in the pit. If you push others down, you have to pick them back up. It was never about violence. It’s about a certain amount of respect and a code,” the band said in a statement
A few days later, Drowning Pool again took to their website to express frustration at the Post story, saying it was a fallacy to cite their music as a reason for the carnage and cited their past good works performing for the troops in harms way…
“Let the bodies hit the floor, let the bodies hit the floor, let the bodies hit the floor,” the singer barks in a refrain that carries an eerie echo in the context of the shooting rampage Saturday in Tucson.
Investigators haven’t suggested a link between Loughner’s violent outburst and “Bodies,” a 2001 single by the Dallas band Drowning Pool. But Loughner’s embrace of “Bodies” – at least as the backdrop to a favorite video – strikes a familiarly chilling chord: The Drowning Pool song served as the soundtrack to a double murder in Oakton, where in 2003, then-19-year-old Joshua Cooke cranked the throbbing tune on his headphones, walked out of his bedroom holding a 12-gauge shotgun and killed his parents…
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