Our album 'Show No Mercy' came out in late '83, and we did three or four shows in San Francisco after the release. That was our first experience with stage-divers, crowd-surfing, people walking on people across an entire crowd.
I read true crime books, and I read when people do case studies of stuff. I'm into books like that. Case studies or forensics or murder - all that good stuff.
I read a book recently by a psychiatrist who was able to interview a few serial killers and she had a thesis on how you could figure these people out. And she thinks that there are things that could tell you whether someone has the potential to do that.
People are not in good shape to where they have to question their own belief system because of a book or a story somebody wrote, or a SLAYER song.
As far as thinking about death and murder and various ways of killing people and how people die... I probably have the most twisted mind in Slayer.