''Paegan Terrorism Tactics'' is the second and final studio album by American heavy metal band

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. It is the band's last album before their disbanding in 1997 due to the death of bassist Audie Pitre. The album was written while the band was touring. The album and first track spell "paegan" with an added "e" to resemble

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. The album's cover is a painting by

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Overview

The lyrics on this album are poetic and further showcase

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's dark sense of humor. "Paegan Love Song", according to Riggs, makes references to when the band was visiting a beach in Florida, where some people offered the band a

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called Angel's Trumpets. Riggs said the

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lasted for days, and the lines "dying felt so goddamn good today" refer to the band members waking up delirious on these flowers. "Eating dead flowers bleeding in a strange daze" among other lines in the song reference the experience of waking up on the beach with this seemingly strange intoxicated state. On the ''Double Live Bootleg!'' DVD (2002) the band introduces the song by saying "Rock 'N' Roll makes the world go 'round, drinking fucking beer and smoking pot! This is Paegan Love Song." "Graveflower" has a guitar solo that heavily employs a

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. "13 Fingers" and "New Corpse" experiment with

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musicianship. Sammy Duet co-wrote the lyrics for "Diäb Soulé" and "New Corpse". "Diäb Soulé" is

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for the "drunken devil". The liner notes present Sammy Duet as Sammy "Pierre" Duet, which is a nickname Riggs gave him because a historical witch was named Sammy Pierre Duet. The poem/hidden track "Ode of the Paegan" is sometimes cited or referred to as "The Beautiful Downgrade" and appear as such in Riggs's poetry books.Riggs, Dax
Dax Riggs The Beautiful Downgrade
Creative-Poems.com. User:Agents of Oblivion (Dax Riggs). The

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along with the track "Old Skin" make up the two

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poems on the album. While in Mexico, the band took a reverse negative photo of the head of a decapitated animal and originally intended on using that as the album cover.Sammy Duet in the Media
YouTube.com. User:thelostcollection (Dax Riggs).Alternative Cover of Paegan Terrorism Tactics
PhotoBucket.com. They later decided on Kevorkian's artwork. The initial artwork can be found on various sites on the internet.

Track listing

Track 1 is listed in the

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as "Pagan Love Song". The hidden track is sometimes mislabeled as "Ode of the Paegan".

Personnel

Acid Bath *

– lead vocals *Mike Sanchez – guitar *Sammy "Pierre" Duet – backing vocals, guitar *Audie Pitre – backing vocals, bass *Jimmy Kyle – drums, percussion, photography Production *Keith Falgout – production, engineer, mixer *Matt "Heavy" Akin – assistant engineer *Spice – samples, intern *Chris Robinson – intern *John "Feedback" Gilmore – intern

References

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