In another article from the Wireless Telephone series, the connection will now be between the iconic thrash metal band Megadeth and the famous Rio samba school Mangueira. This story begins with the 2003 samba da verde e rosa: “Os Dez Mandamentos: o Samba da Paz Canta a Saga da Liberdade”.
Mangueira and the Old Testament
In the samba in question, the late performer Jamelão sings about stories from the Old Testament. Passages such as Moses freeing the Hebrews from Egypt are remembered: “Moses defies the king / Divine wrath falls on the earth / Liberation! And in an enchanted gesture / The sea became a walkway”.
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Years later, in 2013, the person who participated in the recording of the Mangueira samba was Xande de Pilares, as he reports in an interview with O Globo. When talking about the school’s victory in 2019, he said: “I thought it was fair. When Mangueira enters the avenue, there’s no way around it. Sometimes I even feel shaken, because my entire family is from Mangueira, I only became Salgueiro at eight years, because of my father. I was very moved by that flag that Mangueira took to the avenue”.
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Xande de Pilares, Scorpions and stories from Israel
The next knot in the chain is the fact that Xande de Pilares loves the band Scorpions, as he revealed to the newspaper Extra: “At home, everyone likes music. My grandfather said not to listen to an album without knowing who produced it, who it is. the composer, what year it was recorded, where it was recorded, who worked on it all’.
The first time my grandfather told me about technical data, I didn’t even know how to read it. What I liked to listen to was Ray Charles, Stevie Wonder, Jackson Five, Elton John, Gladys Knight, Scorpions, Bee Gees… I was international as hell”, he confessed.
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Scorpions frontman Klaus Meine has previously collaborated on the song “Jerusalem of Gold” with Israeli singer Liel Kolet. This song was originally written by Naomi Shemer and is one of the most traditional in Israel and talks about the Jewish people’s desire to return to Jerusalem. This passage of the Hebrews trying to return to their origins while enslaved in Egypt is the theme of a very famous Metallica song.
The plagues of Egypt
The Bible says that the Pharaoh of Egypt did not want to free the Hebrews from slavery that had lasted 400 years. It was then that God sent ten plagues to “encourage” the monarch to fulfill the divine will. This passage is in the book of Exodus and as Paulo Severo da Costa tells in an article for Whiplash.Net, this story inspired Metallica to compose “Creeping Death”, a classic from “Ride the LIghtning”.
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“The ten plagues of Egypt, also known as the Ten Plagues, are described in Exodus 7-12. The plagues were ten disasters sent upon Egypt by God to convince Pharaoh to free the Israelite slaves from the slavery and oppression they had suffered in Egypt for 400 years. When God sent Moses to free the children of Israel from slavery in Egypt, He promised to show His wonders as confirmation of Moses’ authority (Exodus 3:20). to show the Israelites that the God of their fathers was alive and worthy of their worship and to show the Egyptians that their gods were nothing.
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The inspiration for this song was Cecil B. De Mille’s 1956 film “The Ten Commandments” – starring Charlton Heston as Moses. Under the pretext of a synopsis, the film deals with the ten plagues launched by God according to the aforementioned book. According to the Sacred Text, the ten plagues of Egypt were acts of divine revenge inflicted on Egypt to convince Pharaoh to free the Hebrew slaves.”
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Israel, Northern Ireland, Dave Mustaine and “Holy Wars”
The final point of this curious connection is the song “Holy Wars”, written by Dave Mustaine for Megadeth on the album “Rust in Peace”. This song also deals with the subject of religion and Israel, although its main inspiration was the conflicts between Catholics and Protestants in Northern Ireland, as he says in an interview with Loudersound.
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“We were in Northern Ireland. I was drinking Guinness and someone explained some complicated things to me in a simplified and quick way, and I believed them. I said something from the stage that I shouldn’t have and it caused confusion. David Ellefson wouldn’t talk to me on stage. following day.
I said, ‘What happened?’ and he said, ‘You don’t know what you said last night, do you?’ I said, ‘No, I was drunk, that’s the point.’ He told me what I had said. That I had sort of dedicated a song to the Irish Republican Army and that we were escorted out of town in a bulletproof bus. I was so disappointed that I said that.
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I didn’t know what I was saying. If you know what you’re saying, that’s one thing, but if you’re saying it because someone sold you some bullshit… The guy said it was ‘for the cause,’ and I was like, ‘What’s the cause?’ And he said it was just prejudice between Protestants and Catholics. I didn’t know about the whole story.
The next day we left Dublin for Nottingham Rock City and [baterista] Chuck Behler was nowhere to be found. [Seu técnico de bateria] Nick Menza got on the drums and I started playing the ‘Holy Wars’ riff… and then I wrote the lyrics.
My attitude towards lyrics hasn’t changed since then. It’s the same thing, man. There are still religious wars, there are still people who don’t know, like I didn’t know, there are still people who follow all this and don’t understand other people’s lives or cultures, laws and things like that.”
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When expanding the theme to religious wars in general, Mustaine encompasses Israel in the lyrics of “Holy Wars… The Punishment Due”: “The end is near, it’s clear / It’s part of the master plan / Don’t look at Israel now / For could be your homeland.”
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