EXODUS - Prescribing Horror (OFFICIAL LYRIC VIDEO)

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"As we have finally come to the day of Persona Non Grata’s release, something we’ve been eagerly awaiting for what seems like an eternity. We are pleased to share one last lyric video with you, my personal favorite song on the album, ‘Prescribing Horror’. A little tale of motherhood and a drug, and what happens when greed comes before life and safety. The story of Thalidomide.”
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EXODUS "PRESCRIBING HORROR" LYRICS
Lyrics and music: Gary Holt
Discarded, deformed
babies of the chemical age
Mutated, some unborn
dying in their fetal cage
On the day of the nativity in ‘56
comes a child forsaken
The first of a hundred thousand,
cursed by a drug they’d taken
Chorus
Condemned to a life unkind
as they suffered in silence
The Hell of Thalidomide
all in the name of science
A mother’s ruin
all for another’s greed
Prescribing horror and sorrow when they breed
Melody Gary
Miscarriage, disparage
live a life of anguish
Midwives were taking lives
so the child it would not languish
Suffocating newborn daughters and sons
for their malformations
Given toxic poison
that twisted a generation
Repeat chorus
First created in the past
as an antidote for Sarin gas
Created in camps of death
what price a pound of flesh?
Limbless, eyeless
all organs displaced
They made money hand over fist
by selling this toxic waste
Repeat chorus
#Exodus #ThrashMetal #Thrash #NuclearBlast #Thalidomide

[@OriginalGaucho]

This is seriously one of the best Exodus songs ever!

[@cube372]

Yes...one of the best song.i love it too

[@agony664]

Yes indeed!

[@oscarurbina1219]

Trash metal fan

[@bisinsane]

right!

[@myztikaalx]

'Children of a Worthless God' is my favourite Exodus song, especially the live version at Wacken. Anyway keep on rocking out people of KZbin! 🔥🤘🙌👍👏👊🎶🔥

[@cd0u50c9]

This is darker than all death metal gore put together. This is reality, and it is haunting and gut-wrenching. The baby's cry at the end seals this bone-chilling story. Over time Exodus is emerging as my favourite thrash band, as they remain vocal on a lot of modern day issues, and they keep getting sharper.

[@thehunterstruck]

100%! Exodus got me into Thrash and metal as a whole they're my absolute favorite. This song hit me throughout and then the end sent chills down my spine and just hit me in a way I haven't before when it comes to a song about real world problems. They keep putting out freaking bangers. Exodus deserves to headline big festivals. Exodus at night at a festival like Hellfest or Wacken would be so freaking insane.

[@jmorrison44601]

Yea this shit really happened which alone is chilling

[@robertwalker3357]

Should be the big 5

[@billlehman9394]

60 year olds have a lot of experience....and music is their outlet.

[@roach5606]

It's called gore metal not death metal gore

[@Phantasm2Cuda]

This might be one of the most important songs Exodus ever wrote about. Thalidomide that's some scary shit. The babies crying at the end gives me chills every time

[@cido676]

Right this and Arch Enemy Cruelty without Beauty are prob one of the best songs relating to human cruelty, also Nuclear Assault Critical Mass

[@tannerpaulsen601]

Darkest song Exodus has ever done. Absolutely bone chilling with the atmosphere, baby crying at the end and everything.

[@jaimemoravillar7271]

En vivo es otro nivel la vos de zetro es realmente escalofriante cuando es cruda

[@TheRoyalCheez]

That, and Class Dismissed

[@bigbob4191]

Steve's vocals are fucking ruthless 🤘🏻🤘🏻

[@java8]

Gary. This is exactly what we need. holy shit.

[@dennisperin2989]

EXODUS IS BACK! Wait they never went away in the first place. Been grinding since 1980’ Bay Area’s First Thrash metal band!!

[@Gregbaltzer]

But they did go away. They broke up after the Force of Habit tour, and with the exception of a few shows here and there, never released another studio album for 12 years.

[@lfkk4640]

🤘👹🤘

[@TheArmchairgm]

@@Gregbaltzer -That Force of Habit album should've made them break-up, lolol- that album was weaker one.

[@dennisperin2989]

@@Gregbaltzer it was a figure of speech, & Gary never let Exodus really die, all bands have a down period if around long enough, but tech you are right.

[@Gregbaltzer]

@@TheArmchairgm Not saying it wasn't weaker, but it was still good. I prefer it over any of the newer albums, just not the older albums.

[@domainjester]

Tom Hunting and Gary Holt are national treasures.

[@zachmohammed8220]

Yessss

[@roblesh5524]

That's for sure !!!!! Can't wait for next Saturday night 🤘🤘

[@simonandersen2079]

Absolutely. So you better take good care of them over there 😁

[@dennisperin2989]

Hunting one of the most underrated drummers in history,

[@hamdi-yobazcilar]

Not national, universal treasures.

[@dantredogborsa7048]

The baby's cry at the end just broke my heart. This was hard.

[@braindead_johnny]

That left an unsettling feeling...

[@c0nd0rd4myt]

With a toddler of my own, it hurt me as well. She was over 10 weeks premature, I couldn't recall the number of shots and drugs the doctors gave my wife. Thankfully, they all did what they were supposed to, and my Angelica is perfectly healthy. This is a grim reminder of how different that story could be, and how easily. There is supposed to be a sacred trust with your doctor, especially in that vulnerable moment, and to know the utter betrayal of that trust, and what it lead to is, as you said, heartbreaking.

[@goatsurgeon]

This was a very moving piece

[@michaelfrancis1390]

Added that uncomfortable darkness to it. The riff and melody is on point thou.

[@dkeeks]

This song was hard to listen too.

[@goatsurgeon]

Dude this song is heavy Like, HEAVY

[@dkeeks]

Dude…..Like….I fucking cried!! So good, but sooooooo HEAVY!!!!!!!!

[@markchorlton60]

Try being a Thalidomide Survivor listening to it!

[@jro341]

I knew a guy with deformed hands, he was awesome! RIP.

[@stevelucier8346]

I am one and even I cry most every day for the others.

[@brianw1697]

Metal. It's supposed to be angry and uncomfortable. This song is like if Evisceration Plague and Sanitarium had the same nightmare.

[@E-Chap]

It's not supposed to be anything. It can also be fun, like Toxic Waltz.

[@victormts6698]

My favorite song. Great lyrics, about a nightmare that was real. Tom Hunting and Gary Holt are the highlights of this new album.

[@markchorlton60]

All too real for some of us.

[@nickdavis8375]

I love exodus but zetro Is too much on this one I cant really say why. I loved tempo and blood in blood out but he sounds so fucking bad in this one I cant get over it.

[@BrokenSoul1972]

@@nickdavis8375 you have no idea what your talking about lmao at you, you can't even explain why you think he sounds terrible. Zetro has always been their best singer and he sounds just as good as ever on every track from their new album 🤠

[@ddskreamer]

So happy to hear Zetro back with Exodus again! Great vocals!

[@warrenfry814]

LOL.

[@atgimm2090]

Duke was amazing live tho

[@ddskreamer]

@@atgimm2090 So was Michael Jackson. Your point?

[@thehunterstruck]

Exodus has had three freaking amazing vocalists. Dukes was fantastic and Zetro is the biggest reason Exodus still goes. Maybe in the future we can get Dukes and Zetro doing an Exodus song together!!

[@skcans]

@@ddskreamer Wtf does this comment even mean?

[@domonicsdaniel4497]

Jesus, man. This is a rarely-talked-about story as it is, but I have never imagined you guys doing your take on it. So sad, so infuriating, thanks for the track! Matters like these need to be talked about more, and also, you are still musical geniuses!

[@devilineden727]

Well said Dude.

[@xorthontech]

Fouchi dreams of this

[@shazmanbound1496]

Same shit happening in 2022 but under a different name and with different outcomes. Big pharma sure loves selling fear for profit

[@fieldofpads]

I work in Pharma and this case is almost always part of our annual training (since it was what (rightly) brought-in most of the regulation we have today).

[@domonicsdaniel4497]

@@fieldofpads Very reassuring to hear (to say the least) that modern pharma cares about this and brings it up in trainings!

[@JAVITHRASH1983]

La talidomida es un fármaco desarrollado por la compañía farmacéutica alemana Grünenthal GmbH y comercializado de 1957 a 1963 como sedante y como calmante de las náuseas durante los tres primeros meses de embarazo (hiperemésis gravídica), causando miles de casos de malformaciones congénitas. De eso va la canción. Para los que les causó curiosidad como a mi.

[@rickyrodriguez08]

Gracias por la información.

[@tyranlubenrexia8141]

La talidomida se siguió distribuyendo bajo la excusa de que era eficaz contra la lepra o el mieloma múltiple,hasta los 80 se distribuyó de manera semi-legal bajo el nombre de varios fármacos y día de hoy,su uso se limita a la lepra y alguna cosa más,pero se sigue usando. PD:la farmacéutica que más lo comercializó no fue Grünenthal,fue Novartis,que lo distribuyó bajos otros nombres(a raíz de este caso se crearon las leyes de prescripción e información farmacéutica),por eso hoy día hay europeos de menos de 40 con secuelas de la talidomida. PD2:estudié medicina y he hecho bastante estudios de medicamentos perniciosos que se encubrieron deliberadamente,sobre todo Novartis y Pfizer en sus inicios.

[@JAVITHRASH1983]

@@tyranlubenrexia8141 buena información.

[@tyranlubenrexia8141]

@@JAVITHRASH1983 Es que cuando se creó la talidomida, tú podías comprarla en cualquier sitio y sin receta,en los países protestantes,la receta médica solo se empezó a usar,de manera seria,en los 90(a raíz del tema en cuestión,esto lo sé porque bueno,soy medio noruego,aunque Dinamarca o Alemania las conozco poco,pero Suiza y Noruega las conozco de sobra),antes se podía comprar de todo sin receta,desde la talidomida hasta supresores hormonales para homosexuales(no es coña,aunque parezca mentira,los protestantes son los más intolerantes con las cuestiones sexuales,lo que pasa es que la gente se lo calla para dar buena imagen),lo que canta Exodus fue lo más insignificante,los supresores hormonales,el LSD(en USA,el Mk Ultra existió) o cirugías ilegales(como cambios de sexo o extracciones de lóbulos cerebrales),eran muchísimo peor(solo hay que ver el caso Reimer,el ejemplo de que la sanidad siempre debe estar supeditada al estado,para que no haya "mentes tan creativas" que hagan contigo lo que quieran).

[@EnriqueMartinez-yo9xk]

Así estamos ahora con las "vacunas" milagrosas contra el covid...

[@TrueScaffold]

One of the darkest songs of the entire metal genre. Genius!

[@archangelofcoffee922]

I can't be the only one hearing it but the start of this track reminds me of the outro to "Forward March" off "Tempo of the Damned". This seems like a part 2 to that song in some ways.

[@java8]

That is one nasty song mate. Yeah forward march ends like this. This should be Part 2 of that one.

[@Johnny-df4di]

No you're not the only one damn good ear sounds old skool

[@MihaiDolganiuc]

Indeed. Good Ear.

[@lfkk4640]

Yeah. Brutal!!!

[@gråsscandy77]

Yeah I thought the same

[@danr7838]

Exodus is my favorite band not only because of the cutting vocals, adrenaline-pumping drums, skull-rocking bass and guitar with a crunch you can chip a tooth on -- but because the lyrics push all of that to the next level. This song is a perfect example of why Exodus are the Kings of Metal in my book! Long live Exodus!

[@xorthontech]

His voice keeps getting better with age!

[@MrBownze]

Just received my copy today. I like the theological perspective of this album. Fits perfectly with "the times". And Gary's tone... crushing, as always. Love Zetro's new vocal tricks as well.

[@HeavyMetalSonicRM]

I'm loving how crankable this album is because it's not compressed and brickwalled to death. It sounds even more dynamic than some of the '80s albums.

[@bestiaonthedrums]

that's a bold statement

[@Br00tz966]

@@bestiaonthedrums You're goddamn right it is.

[@dudarino666]

I guarantee there is more compression than you think. It's just mixing equipment has come a long long way since the 80s.

[@maraomania1360]

@@dudarino666 yeah the tech is great, you can make shit real loud, riiight, if only the music was as good as back then.

[@bulba888]

The best song in the new album. Good job Exodus, delivered

[@sinisajelicic3875]

awesome dark song ... the exodus strikes where it hurts the most......pure horror .this is stronger than all death metal bands together.fantastic sound .... old school thrash metal at its best

[@sinistermaniac966]

It's very similar subject matter to the Death song Living Monstrosity.

[@wernerluftbotelho7106]

Perfect analysis!!

[@MatthiasBuesing]

What a great track; groovy, great production and Zetro at his best! Can't wait for the album!

[@thelombaxsystemtv7492]

I love how the guitarist has that sick sound from Exhibit B: The Human Condition from 2010! 🤘 If only more Metal bands had that sound, their level of brutality would be adored by many!!!

[@user-kp3ib5jd2p]

Can someone please explain to me why does this kind of a masterpiece is not #1 somewhere? .. are people really that blind to music ?!?! let alone the lyrics?? FFFFFFUUUDGGGGGGG!!! 😵‍💫

[@thehunterstruck]

Exodus unfortunately doesn't get the playtime the Big 4 gets or most other bands get. I think they would have been Big 4 if they had so much more popularity. CONSITANTY GOOD albums

[@METALIZER26]

Sick song, Exodus are on the top of their game.

[@matthews77]

SIK AF. EXODUS GUT IT CHUGIN. BY FAR THE BEST METAL BAND ALIVE TODAY. FACTS

[@russellmcgurn4217]

Spoken by an obvious huge Exodus fan but c'mon man, BESt band lol. There are literally thousands of bands in this genre alone cranking out great music lololilolo.

[@anthonydalicandro8848]

Love their slower tempo songs!!!!

[@JAVITHRASH1983]

Like Nanking or Democide. Great slowly dark songs.

[@donogden7218]

The outro to this song is so damn creepy!! But yet fits the vibe of the song. Pure musical genius!! 🤘🤘🤘🤘🍻

[@abrahammaldonado237]

La banda mas legendaria de todo el puto mundo!🤘🏽🇲🇽

[@josemenendez3823]

Y como suenan todavia.

[@MayaNeelakantan]

OMG!!! I love this song!! This song has one of the coolest heaviest riff! Can't get enough of it. I am going to learn this song right now! Wow!!!! The video was scary for me and so is the riff and the singing!! The baby crying at the end made it even more eerie! Can't wait to learn this song!!

[@Metalton95]

Great atmospheric song! Your most menacing track since Nanking (2010)!!!

[@2112deadsky]

and people line up to get their latest injection crazy It was approved in the United States in 1998 for use as a treatment for cancer.[3] It is on the World Health Organization's List of Essential Medicines.[8] It is available as a generic medication.

[@thoomaas6486]

What a great fucking song!

[@jmlm5479]

In this one Zetro sounds really good.

[@molimba]

yeesss, tight drums, heavy riffs, nasty vocals. Exodus as we know and love it, this piece a classic already!

[@KAOTSOUKI]

Horrors in the name of science, lyrics on point.

[@markchorlton60]

Greed I think had a bigger role in the tragedy than just science. I say this as a Thalidomide Survivor

[@Shamelesspatriot1776]

@@markchorlton60 if you listen to all the lyrics it describes greed being the main driver of the issue, but science was the concept that was used to justify the administration of thalidomide.

[@markchorlton60]

@@Shamelesspatriot1776 you are correct. One of the guitarists with the band identified greed as one of the main topics of the song.

[@milenpenev1362]

It comes again.

[@havanadaurcy1321]

@@milenpenev1362 Sorry the population doesn't want a virus like anti vaxxers do. Those heart attacks? Many athletes are still told 'you can' medically. 'nooooo vaccine's, 🐑le you are.

[@Pilatus38]

This is pure horror. Heavy and Crushing 🤯🔥

[@spookyverb]

The entire album is major krankage. Best in many long years for Exodus. This song physically gives me the chills. Zetro just came back in a major way. Fuckin' rulz.

[@motorhead27101989]

It feels refreshing and reassuring at the same time that there are still some bands alive and kicking, not trying too hard to sound different and yet manage to capture your attention. Thank you for not changing with time. Cheers 🤘🏻

[@Hoglife]

Like a fine wine,Exodus just keeps getting better with age🤘🤘🤘🤘

[@cheyennemonger4522]

Dark, heavy, and real as hell... yup we have a perfect Exodus song here.

[@killerellik2347]

Wicked! 🤟⚡⚡🤟Gary Holt, you are a riff MONSTER! WORLDS BEST RIGHT THERE!

[@glisandra]

This song hits hard , i'm crying

[@rocknroll7828]

Story is really sad...on the other side the music is dope...July 22th in Wiesbaden Germany, I can' t wait to See You live again in Germany! 😊💪 With Heathen, so this will be really great

[@cube372]

I love this song.very good sound of drumming...guitars and bass.and vocal....very good track.powerfull.i love it.

[@kaijulydmium7270]

goosebumps all the way. best.

[@RicardoLopez-vn6cn]

This song gives me the creeps after doing a deep dive into what they're talking about in this song, genuinely disturbing. But the music is awesome though

[@azrocker666]

A haunting song. Thoroughly enjoy the new album. I was very excited to see Exodus for the first time in Phoenix for the The Bay Strikes Back tour last year. The crowd was hyped when they got on stage! A new fan for sure. And looking forward to future shows! 🤘🏼

[@shred9475]

This song is brutal and sad

[@Mike4metal]

Exodus never Fails to Crush and Devastate!🤘🏻🔥🔥🔥✨

[@todorkolev4244]

One of the best tracks on the album, it has this evil vibe throughout that is just plain sinister. Very much reminds me of a Slayer doomy track like Dead Skin mask and Architect of Pain from the very same Exodus. Zetro's vocals might be the best on here, the man wants to haunt us in our nightmares , the baby cry at the end is just disturbing

[@TakanoIchikawa]

This song makes me want to learn stuff. To the library!!!!

[@jcalora]

Here’s a video about the hidden American thalidomide victims, now survivors in their 60s: kzbin.info/www/bejne/aZOveWR7g6aBgtE

[@obituary6286]

Wonderful song and an absolutely awesome music video! Exodus is a great group! One of the best in the world!

[@mattmartineau6018]

Not-so-fun fact... Thalidomide: different isomers caused the defects. Edit: Modern day prescription horrors: Anti-depressants/anti-anxiety drugs meant to be used on short term (3 months) are prescribed for life. Last edit... for now... I promise. Given the age of this band, yes, this _IS_ in their "current events" field. Glad they covered it. Glad I hit on it via a "metal" playlist.

[@Celestial_Being666]

Masterpiece 🔥🤘🏽

[@victoriarues5631]

I can't describe how great the timing for this was! THANK YOU FOR ALWAYS BEING AWESOME! 🤘

[@deceiver444]

One more atrocity exhibition. Unsettling and brilliant.

[@guitarrilho502]

Dude, they just gave another meaning to heavy

[@carloscaruci3856]

Brutales los reyes del thrash metal

[@khodaagah6930]

You took us to the 90's and proved it and revived Thrash Metal and reminded everyone. Your fan of Iran, we make music and touch like this

[@marcdiego1]

Holy mother...what lyrics, what a song. Exodus at their best!!!!

[@deluge71]

Excellent video, and it targets a very relevant topic. Please do your due diligence and look this up, folks! This shit is really happening.

[@joewhitehead3755]

Damn freaking music was brutally heavy and so were the lyrics holy s***

[@sliehgtofhand]

Reminds me of Nanking from Act 2. Amazing song about a horrific subject.

[@Bubonick.]

Великая команда и альбом. Great Band / Great Album.

[@denissalvatiguerra1436]

Exodus I listened first time at 80's and now I've listened again, all musicians are great, long Life Exodus

[@anthonydalicandro8848]

Definitely in the top 3 songs on this album

[@dumbluck4399]

Thalidomide was originally invented as a sedative, but became used for other things because it essentially worked as a painkiller. It was of course, used as something for pregnancy nausea and pain

[@corycrockett1254]

Another Gary Holt Classic! The mans a master of metal!

[@JudgementDay829]

This song sounds very Slayer-ish and it makes me wonder if this could have been one of the songs that Gary tried to present to Tom Araya when he was still playing with Slayer. Either way it's a badass song.

[@marekstruski1702]

the newest album crushes! I love the group's newest masterpiece.

[@ProjectCreativityGuy96]

The baby crying at the end actually made Me tear up a little, man, bone chillingly scary at the same time... World is pure evil, I swear!!! A song like this just shows how pure evil people can be......

[@SunCoastFilms]

Saw them Last Monday with Death Angel and Testament. When they played this the crowd went nuts. They baby crying at the end was almost silence from the crowd. Gary and Lee are guitar beasts! Even saw Lee with Heathen at the Stone SF many years ago.

[@arturmanellari8655]

With sleeping into madness, best songs on the album..

[@tonyhekopiano5892]

Man, What a powerful Song. I had to look up history on this one.

[@MrBassetman]

EXODUS just gets better with age !!! Awesome sound, hooky , kicks my ass, old skool love it!!!!

[@nikkmorse]

What a PHENOMENAL album 🤘🏼😈🤘🏼 best album for years...and I don't just mean by Exodus...WE WANT MORE..

[@gpermin1477]

The kind of Exodus I wanted to hear.

[@AlucardsQuest]

Well I see the videos on Nuclear Blast's KZbin channel home, so that's something. I just want Exodus to have more success by having this album do well... They deserve it!

[@gmanhirt8818]

Playing in the almighty Slayer definitely influenced this overall sound of this song.

[@jro341]

My friend that among other people used to and still do, build cars had a father with deformed hands. He was awesome, he drove a semi with his fucked-up hands and taught all of us everything.

[@ProjectCreativityGuy96]

1:47 - 1:48 I just love how the key changes a few seconds later on this grim sinister riff, it's as if to say... Aww no, something doesn't feel right here!!!!! 🤘🤘 Gary Holt brings such dark sounding riffs, making Him the riff God of Extreme Metal!!!!!!!

[@johanhalvarsson8889]

This is something different! Its great

[@maxt.]

killer album !!!!! great job guys !!!!!!

[@gaelbgalbar9307]

One of the best Exodus track, without any doubt. We can see Gary took one thing or two from Slayer, and that's a good thing hella yea!

[@krisstieghorst7415]

Wow, ironically reading "The Strange Case Of Dr. Couney " the video seems to relate to this dark tale in it's own way....great song/ video! Thank you guy's! ⚡

[@x.bozhidar]

Guitars here are on another level

[@Sean-fv4wi]

So is this what happened to the babies on Bonded by Blood?

[@Mike-ol7xp]

Just when you think a band can't get any better,..... I'm speechless!

[@flaviozanin9261]

It's impossible not to think about a "big 5", instead of "big 4"!

[@tedvanmatje]

..."what price a pound of flesh?" That's boiling up some emotion I can't quite analyse right at this moment... Top fookin song though! 🤟

[@jorgemarenco8349]

Gary Holt Denouncing past events that were forgotten by human kind just like he did on the song NANKIN

[@khrawkuparnonglaitvevo7429]

The song speaks the truth

[@rawartillery10]

One of the best songs from the new album, it's so Grim, Deep and Brutal 🤘

[@85ldsp85]

Yeahhhh!!! Greetings from Brazil 💛🇧🇷💥

[@jeremykershaw]

This is also my favorite track from the new album

[@Hoglife]

One of the best songs off this album🤘🤘

[@СлаваУкраїні-с3л]

As an identical twin my favourite album was Bonded by blood but it's all amazing

[@MrRoust777]

Героям Слава!