As Antonio Gramsci argued, ruling groups maintain power partly by making their ideas seem like common sense. This helps explain the political significance of Metallica’s call for disengagement at a time when Israel’s genocide in Palestine demands urgent international attention. Hetfield’s vague agenda of “love, energy and heavy music” ultimately amounts to a refusal to stand for anything meaningful. And that refusal is itself deeply political.

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[–] xtr0n@sh.itjust.works 67 points 1 week ago (2 children)

They have always been awful people (even if I do enjoy their earliest albums)

Their documentary is a painful two hours of the whiniest, most insufferable, overprivileged, man babies. If you ever think the Napster bullshit was a temporary blip, there’s ample evidence that the rot goes all the way through:

https://youtu.be/eTeat_IN0SU?is=lPkgJq-_WWxE-gtH

[–] Skullgrid@lemmy.world 14 points 1 week ago

there is an unintentional trilogy out there :

This is Spinal Tap
Some Kind of Monster
The story of Anvil

[–] a_non_monotonic_function@lemmy.world 9 points 1 week ago

They don't even know how to treat their own members with dignity and respect.