Robert Opperheimer

Trecho dum release gigante contido em “Time Machine” (1993) a respeito da excêntrica – pra padrões satriânicos – “I Am Become Death”, contida no disco de inéditas do disco:

“Now, what better soundtrack to the apocalypse than a melange of warbling, foreboding drones, the last few precious ululations of blood flow, and coarse winds strafing through the skulls of the fallen? When physicist Robert Opperheimer saw the first test explosion of his atomic bomb, it was reported that his reaction was quoted from the Tibetan Book Of the Dead: ‘I am become death, shatterer of worlds’. This song might well have elicited a similar response from any straight-laced record executive. Revising his bass-drum simulation to create a heartbeat, and tickling the nether parts of the guitar, Joe crafted a piece laced with backwards moans that sound as though they were composed. The concluding ‘Rockaby baby’ death knell sounds to Joe more like an Italian soap opera, but either way, whenever he hears it today he still asks himself, ‘Why is that there?'”