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Drowning Pool linked to supposed High School massacre plot

"Two teenagers who allegedly plotted a shooting massacre at Crookwel lHigh School have lashed out at schools and police, saying they are..."

As reported in The Sydney Morning Herald:

Two teenagers who allegedly plotted a shooting massacre at Crookwell High School have lashed out at schools and police, saying they are victims of a misunderstanding over a former girlfriend of one of the boys.



The boys shared copies of a gruesome heavy metal song on the Internet, their families said, but they did not have the intention or the means to carry out a massacre.



The boys, 16, are alleged to have created a hit list of students and teachers to "take out" and circulated it to some fellow students. Neither has been charged, and both have received mental health treatment.



"He put a song on a website, on his mate's website. And that's it," the father of one boy told Channel Seven. The song is "Bodies" by the band DROWNING POOL, which repeats the lyrics "Let the bodies hit the floor" and "Something's got to give". The song was banned by some radio stations in the U.S. after the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks because some deemed it too disturbing.



"People have got the wrong information," said the father, whose son has been released from Goulburn Base Hospital, where he had been receiving psychiatric care since Thursday. "So [my son] and myself have just been dragged through crap over nothing."

I think listening to Drowning Pool would make anyone go a bit loopy.