GOD DETHRONED's HENRI SATTLER: 'Religion Causes All Wars On This Planet'

Karma E. Omowale of the FourteenG e-zine recently conducted an interview with GOD DETHRONED guitarist/vocalist Henri Sattler. An excerpt from the chat follows:

FourteenG: With a name like GOD DETHRONED and with songs like "Sigma Enigma" and "Rusty Nails", you are not raising the banner for Christianity…

Henri: "That's not true, we're not fans of religion in general, it doesn't [make a difference] which religion it is. Because religion causes all of the wars on this planet, religion causes people ending up at the stakes, and people ended up getting killed because of religion. If someone believes in the God or something else, fine because it's a personal thing. But religion tells you what you can and cannot do and that's wrong! The religions that are against each other have caused so much trouble on this planet for years and years and years."

FourteenG: Very true, it goes back to the "biblical days."

Henri: "Yes! Now that's what we're against!"

FourteenG: Was there one defining moment that lead you to view things this way which opened your eyes to make you say to hell with organized religion or is it something that you have always believed?

Henri: "It's something that I've always believed. When I founded the band, I was like nineteen, twenty years old I just wanted to have that as the main theme for the band. The first album was very brutal when it comes to lyrics against Christianity or religion in general. Over the years when you grow mature and get older, we took different topics and more well thoughts lyrics and stuff. So it's no that black and white anymore. [Smiles] It's more like, I want people to think about it but we're not preaching anything. Because everybody can make up his own mind and I don't have to do that! Right now I see it as purely entertainment, there's a story behind it but the story's very old. Sometimes we still write lyrics about it but not all the time anymore."

FourteenG: What are your views on death?

Henri: "I think when you die you end up under the ground or you'll be burned, whatever and that's it. Then on the other hand, maybe there is some higher power but I think that people who have lived a life, a human life, they deserve something good afterwards. The people who have been bad people, they will not end up in Heaven [just] because they are going to church every Sunday."

FourteenG: I understand that completely, thus the law of karma.

Henri: "Yeah, I think everybody goes where he or she belongs in the long run. They will end up in the place they belong. If it's in this life or the afterlife, whatever. I think everyone gets what he deserves!"

Read the entire interview at FourteenG.net.