Justice for All and Love and Light : Metal Against Oppression

[Bright Garlick]

Hey folks - I know that I am not the only person here who believes in love and compassion, who also honours the darkness within and without. So here's a thread devoted to great metal which has made a statement against oppression, inequality and injustice.

Here a a couple of favs from the 80's.

Heavy metal and many other forms of musical expression, have much to say about the state of the human world and a profound role in changing human behaviour (for better or worse) !

Responsible metal, speaks from the heart. Great anger from great love !!!

May there be justice for all. Love and light on the end of a metal pitch fork !!!!

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=92miS5edOao

And Justice for All

Halls of Justice Painted Green
Money Talking
Power Wolves Beset Your Door
Hear Them Stalking
Soon You'll Please Their Appetite
They Devour
Hammer of Justice Crushes You
Overpower

The Ultimate in Vanity
Exploiting Their Supremacy
I Can't Believe the Things You Say
I Can't Believe
I Can't Believe the Price You Pay
Nothing Can Save You

Justice Is Lost
Justice Is Raped
Justice Is Gone
Pulling Your Strings
Justice Is Done
Seeking No Truth
Winning Is All
Find it So Grim
So True
So Real

Apathy Their Stepping Stone
So Unfeeling
Hidden Deep Animosity
So Deceiving
Through Your Eyes Their Light Burns
Hoping to Find
Inquisition Sinking You
With Prying Minds

The Ultimate in Vanity
Exploiting Their Supremacy
I Can't Believe the Things You Say
I Can't Believe
I Can't Believe the Price You Pay
Nothing Can Save You

Justice Is Lost
Justice Is Raped
Justice Is Gone
Pulling Your Strings
Justice Is Done
Seeking No Truth
Winning Is All
Find it So Grim
So True
So Real

Lady Justice Has Been Raped
Truth Assassin
Rolls of Red Tape Seal Your Lips
Now You're Done in
Their Money Tips Her Scales Again
Make Your Deal
Just What Is Truth? I Cannot Tell
Cannot Feel

The Ultimate in Vanity
Exploiting Their Supremacy
I Can't Believe the Things You Say
I Can't Believe
I Can't Believe the Price We Pay
Nothing Can Save Us

Justice Is Lost
Justice Is Raped
Justice Is Gone
Pulling Your Strings
Justice Is Done
Seeking No Truth
Winning Is All
Find it So Grim
So True
So Real

Seeking No Truth
Winning Is All
Find it So Grim
So True
So Real

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=tmzxp0Lqxn8

War Ensamble

Propaganda death ensemble
Burial to be
Corpses rotting through the night
In blood laced misery
Scorched earth the policy
The reason for the singe
The pendulum it shaves the blade
The strafing air blood raid

Infiltration push reserves
Encircle the front llines
Supreme art of strategy
Playing on the minds
Bombard till submission
Take all to their graves
Indication of triumph
The number that are dead

Chorus
Sport the war, war support
The sport is war, total war
When victory's a massacre
The final swing is not a drill
It's how many people I can kill

Chorus

Be dead friend from abve
When darkness falls
Descend into my sights
Your fallen walls
Spearhead break through the lines
Flanked all around
Soldiers of attrition
Forward their ground
Gregime prophetic age
Old in it's time
Flowing veins run on through
Deep in the rhine
Center of the web
All battles scored
What is our war crimes
(era forever more...war)

Propaganda war ensemble
Burial to be
Bones shining in the night
In blood laced misery
Campaign of elimination
Twisted psychology
When victory is to survive
And death is defeat

Chorus
Sport the war, war support
The sport is total war
When victory's a massacre
When victory is survival
When this end is a slaughter
The final swing is not a drill
It's how many people I can kill

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=yndfqN1VKhY

Prison Song

"They're trying to build a prison,
They're trying to build a prison,

Following the rights movements
You clamped down with your iron fists,
Drugs became conveniently
Available for all the kids,
Following the rights movements
You clamped down with your iron fists,
Drugs became conveniently
Available for all the kids,

I buy my crack, my smack, my bitch,
Right here in Hollywood,

Nearly 2 million Americans are incarcerated
In the prison system, prison system
Prison system of the U.S.

They're trying to build a prison

They're trying to build a prison,
They're trying to build a prison,
They're trying to build a prison, (for you and me)
Another prison system,
Another prison system,
Another prison system.

Minor drug offenders fill your prisons
You don't even flinch
All our taxes paying for your wars
Against the new non-rich,
Minor drug offenders fill your prisons
You don't even flinch
All our taxes paying for your wars
Against the new non-rich,

I buy my crack, my smack, my bitch,
Right here in Hollywood,

The percentage of Americans in the prison system, prison system
Prison system, has doubled since 1985

They're trying to build a prison

They're trying to build a prison,
They're trying to build a prison,
They're trying to build a prison,
Another prison system,
Another prison system,
Another prison system.
For you and me, for you and me , for you and me.

They're trying to build a prison,
They're trying to build a prison,
They're trying to build a prison,
For you and me,
Oh baby, you and me.

All research and successful drug policy shows
That treatment should be increased,
And law enforcement decreased,
While abolishing mandatory minimum sentences,
All research and successful drug policy shows
That treatment should be increased,
And law enforcement decreased,
While abolishing mandatory minimum sentences.

Utilizing drugs to pay for secret wars around the world,
Drugs are now your global policy,
Now you police the globe,

I buy my crack, my smack, my bitch,
Right here in Hollywood,

Drug money is used to rig elections,
And train brutal corporate sponsored
Dictators around the world.

They're trying to build a prison

They're trying to build a prison,
They're trying to build a prison,
They're trying to build a prison, (for you and me to live in)
Another prison system,
Another prison system,
Another prison system. (for you and me)
For you and I, for you and I , for you and I.
They're trying to build a prison,
They're trying to build a prison,
They're trying to build a prison,
For you and me,
Oh baby, you and me.

[meeradas]

This calls for a repost of three of my hymns [though OT, as oppression isn't exactly the theme in all]:


Dancers to a discordant system by Meshuggah [lyrics in the vid][warning: graphic!]:

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=5gjJ2lNfbzo

Reclamation by Lamb of God:

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=afWnZIDLVJ4

Humanity's a failed experiment
walking the path to extinction
spinning its wheels endlessly
grease them with oil
and uranium

Humanitiy's a failed experiment
walking the path to extinction

The earth will shake and the waters will rise
the elements reclaim what was taken
what was taken

The skyline is set ablaze
with regret
ashes cover a falling
silhouette
The city will reap what it's sewn
and ignite
watching as the city burns
(tonight)

Blindly consuming mass manufactured faith
mankind is a festering parasite

Blindly consuming mass manufactured faith
mankind is a festering parasite
relentlessly draining its host dry
nailing belief to a cross of genocide

The elements reclaim what was taken
what was taken

The skyline is set ablaze
with regret
ashes cover a falling
silhouette
The city will reap what its sewn
and ignite
watching as the city burns
Tonight

Only after the last tree's cut
and the last river poisoned
only after the last fish is caught
will you find that money cannot be eaten

When everything becomes irrelevant
When the sky tears open
fire rains down, fire rains down
the 4th world comes to an end
push the button, light the match
feel the fault lines detach
crosshairs in the evening light
I sit and watch the city burn
Tonight

The city burns tonight

And something 'ancient' - Critical Mass by Nuclear Assault [lyrics in the vid]:

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=ZzFN1nm0vbY

Pretty good observers, aren't/weren't they.

[Bright Garlick]

Thanks dude ! We should just hijack PA and call it Metal Avalon and solve all the worlds problems with heavy metal !!!

Great choices buddy !!! ;-)

[william r sanford72]

Posted by Bright Garlick (here)
Thanks dude ! We should just hijack PA and call it Metal Avalon and solve all the worlds problems with heavy metal !!!

Great choices buddy !!! ;-)

heavy metal army??..where do i sign UP..?..and if i could post..this is where i would post the classic metal song..WARPIGS..from one of the first metal bands..BLACK SABBATH..in honor of this newly formed army..of metal heads.cool thread.great songs.turn it UP!

[ghostrider]

vibrations affect all humans , especially from music ...sharp minds will see the message behind the music , operas , plays , ballets , and yep metal ... I have seen a play at a local theater that really wasn't my cup of tea , but after it was over it was life changing , live theater is awesome ...