Bluegrass and independent country artists are getting really good with their messaging lately.
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Doom metal
Nobody said System? Maybe I missed it. Toxicity the album. Individual tracks: Prison Song, Deer Dance, BYOB.
Solid rec. BYOB is off Mezmerize, though.
I've been playing Mr. Jack from Steal This Album! on repeat
Rage against the machine, Dropkick Murphys, NOFX
HEALTH
Ordinary loss https://youtu.be/-tvl8sDu9vo
Demi-gods https://youtu.be/dbSPb0bFmms
Free to die https://youtu.be/F5nCQW53l-E
Additional important listening
Trash Decade https://youtu.be/7Og1orQecxQ
Don't Kill Yourself https://youtu.be/jjsv1JACJCY
System of a Down is GOAT
Rage against the machine, all of them, can't miss
Panopticon's album Kentucky. Still hoping to see the level of solidarity and mutual aid those Appalachian coal miners embodied.
Seconding Kentucky.
Check out the !music@slrpnk.net community, it's usually pretty political, and has some diverse genres.
I'm cruising through Rise Against constantly, because a ton of their songs resonate with my anger
Rise Against is always my "The world is fucked I'm so mad" band. All their stuff is great, but Re-education(Through Labor), The First Drop, and Mourning in America are so incredible and so relevant.
Godspeed You! Black Emperor — F#A#∞
Nine Inch Nails - Year Zero. Christofascism and the apocalypse. Still relevant almost 20 years later.
This one is perfect, from first to last track.
Refused
Cro-Mags
Napalm Death
Power Trip
Iron Reagan
Exodus
Non-metal suggestions:
Thievery Corporation
Skinny Puppy
Massive Attack
The first Rage Against The Machine album feels more relevant today then when it was released. Like this is the first time I've really, really felt like RATMs intended audience and not a 3rd person.
Enter Shikari - A Flash Flood of Colour
How are we gonna get through this alive?
It's not too late
It's not too late
I was not expecting to see them here. I am pleasantly surprised.
Here are a few:
Fen - Monuments to Absence (post-black metal)
GY!BE - NO TITLE (post-rock)
Ashenspire - Hostile Architecture (avant-garde black metal)
A Silver Mt Zion - this is our punk rock... (Post-rock)
Atari Teenage Riot has been my go to. Digital Punk anarchist.
This should be higher. Delete Yourself! is an amazing album.
Fuck yeah! Glad someone appreciates it. ATR is pretty unknown amongst most people.
Obsolete by Fear Factory
It's a concept album that involves fighting against a totalitarian police state that subjugates humans to the machines they created.
It also has an awesome "Cars" cover for whenever you're feeling good.
If and when I want to feel political listening to music, it's mostly RATM or some down to earth 90's black rap, such as Wu-Tang Clan (I'm white though). Occasionally I drink a few and sing Bella Ciao until my voice gives out.
Otherwise, nowadays, I'm mostly depressed (clinically) and I often just flee into some darksynth like Perturbator.
There's a handful of Audioslave tracks that could work. Going to listen to them shortly, I'll mention some specific tracks. Definitely my favorite rock band of all time. RIP Chris.
I dunno, my daily mix is my daily mix.
Wheres the revolution by depeche mode is pretty good :)
Ironically, R.E.M.- It's the End of the World As We Know. It
Unironically, Rage Against The Machine, Public Enemy
Also this: https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-lists/best-protest-songs-1235154848/
Deafheaven - Revelator, Black Brick
Hell yeah Black Brick fucks
Not a whole album but I had found this little modern folk song specifically about the current state of the US a while back:
Start a playlist with Voidnet. You'll feel like you're in a terminator movie fast.
I switched from almost all jazz, electroswing mostly, the summer of 2024 and added in what little dark hard rock I knew, or whatever you call it, like tool and rage against the machine, a perfect circle, old stuff. I knew we were fucked in july 2024. For sure fucked I knew before, I actually called kamala getting the nomination after biden back in like 2019.
Want some more kind of dark or hard stuff to listen to, but there was a lot more good rage against the machine stuff than I was aware, they weren't as popular as tool where I grew up.
I love muse
Check out here's solo work.
And flogging molly
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