#OccupyFriday To the Fallen Heroes

God Forbid, from the album IV: Constitution of Treason. Their new album is out at the end of March.

Lyrics after the

#OccupyFriday Eyes of the Insane [Slayer]

Tom Araya on Eyes of the Insane which won a Grammy Award: 

I was walking through the airport and I looked down and saw the issue of Texas Monthly with a soldier’s helmet on it. I picked up the magazine and thumbed through it and saw the article “Casualties of War”...It was a very profound article. I woke up in the middle of the night and wrote the song down. Something was telling me I had to write it, so it just came out. It is a sincere topic. It’s one that the military doesn’t want you to know. They sweep it under the rug, but it’s a story that needs to be told [Blistering]

"The effect that the war has had on some of these kids who're coming home and having a tough time dealing with what they've seen — I mean, some of these kids are traumatized and mentally destroyed by what they've seen. The magazine also ran an entire list of the soldiers from Texas who've died. It was several pages with pictures of these kids. It blew my mind." [MTV]

#OccupyFriday Bodies

'Bodies' was written about the brotherhood of the moshpit and was never about violence."

Unfortunately the this song has been used to terrorise at Gitmo and is listened to by troops watching real bodies hit the floor. That is an abuse of music. Metal is not about killing people it's about killing pop music with crunching riffs. However one of the sources against music being used this way said:

"At Guantanamo, the U.S. government turned a jukebox into an instrument of torture,"

A CIA source replied:

the CIA used music only for security, "not for punitive purposes - and at levels far below a live rock band." 

That has to be the dumbest statement since anything that came out of Tipper Gore's mouth in the 1980's.

If you play Britney Spears to me that is punishment (unless it's a mashup that's different). Stop twisting our music and join us in the moshpit. Moshpits aren't about violence. It is the heart of the bleeding nose shelter. Violence does not bring happiness. A moshpit does!

#OccupyFriday: Bring Your Own Boom!

Lyrics after the jump.

#OccupyFriday This Is War - 30 Seconds to Mars

The only ones who ever win in war are the ones selling the guns to both sides. 

#OccupyFriday Revolution Calling

Back in 1988 possibly the best concept metal album of all time was released. It was way ahead of it's time. I was fortunate enough to watch Queensrÿche perform it in it's entirety. That album was Operation: Mindcrime. It told of a world with pay-offs everywhere I look, Who do you trust when everyone's a crook? Little has changed in terms of corporate governance then as back then The rich control the government, the media the law. Enjoy.

#OccupyFriday Disposable War Pigs

Politicians hide themselves away
They only started the war
Why should they go out to fight?
They leave that role to the poor
Time will tell on their power minds
Making war just for fun
Treating people just like pawns in chess
Wait 'til their judgement day comes Yeah! [Lyrics] 

One of the Greatest Anti-War songs of all time and one of the best Sabbath tunes ever. Today I will remember the dead who have fallen for politicians greed. We honour their sacrifice but we mourn the senseless loss. Their is nothing glorious about war.

Live versions, covers, remixes after the jump.

Between Nations Iron Maiden and Motörhead go Anti-War

I always thought a war was for the courageous heroes to fight,
To take up arms for country, to fight on the side of God and Right,
To win the bloody battle to proclaim victory is at hand,
To never surrender this soil so sacred is this land.

But I always knew a war was fought by reluctant heroes of chance,
Sent by fearless men of words using pen instead of lance,
Told by these men of power, ignorant to the pain,
That we must beat the bastards now and kill ‘till all are slain,
That we must hate our fellow man for his race, colour and creed,
Because hate is what we want and hate is what we need,
And so with God upon our side, death we shall not dread,
Until we have built Jerusalem from the corpses of their dead.

Copyright Craig Mitchell 1994

#OF: 2 Minutes to Midnight

Go to war again, blood is freedoms stain,
But dont you pray for my soul anymore.

Iron Maiden's powerful, classic anti-war song from the Powerslave album. As a child this had a deep impact on me, not so much the words which I knew were related to the then ongoing Cold War but the image of Eddie and Nuclear War (right).

According to many commentators we are closer to Nuclear War now (well it keeps proliferating and we keep trying to arm ourselves to the teeth) than we were back in the 1980's. We also had America threaten to use Nuclear Weapons (the small ones that no one ever really gets hurt by, they are Nice Nukes) in the Iraq war. WTF!?

As always if this doesn't play, there are more live videos (and the lyrics) after the jump: 

#OF: 1-2-3-4 We Don't Want Your F**king War

Motörhead are often accused of being pro-war due to his fascination with war memorabilia, particularly Nazi WWII. However, this is bollocks. There is one song Lemmy wrote that is pro-war as Lemmy explains:

Yeah, that's almost a recruiting song. (laughing) It's like I've written all these anti-war songs and I keep getting accused of being pro-war, right? So I thought I'd write a pro-war one and see if people come out saying it's an anti-war one. Of wars, WWII is the most interesting one because of the Nazi thing. I just got a new book by this guy who found some archives. It turns out that the head of the Gestapo was supposedly killed in Berlin in 1945. Well, they dug up his grave a few years ago, and there were three people in it. None of them were him. He has apparently been working for the CIA since 1948. [Full Interview]

Now enjoy Lemmy on his favourite subject:

Dogs of War:

#OccupyFriday: Killing in the Name Of Peace

In the days of my youth I didn't get Rage Against the Machine as they were too angry, yet somehow Slayer were fine? How little I knew that Rage would rise from the flames and burn the Simon Cowel Beast by taking the Number One slot in the UK. That surely makes them Metal Gods?

This is the first in a series of posts commencing each Friday, looking at the long history of protest rock/metal and the many damn fine songs it spawned. It may seem odd to some that despite appearances, Metalheads obsessed with blood and gore are really pacifists highlighting the brutality of our society - even when we ask them to Sniff the Glove. One of the most ironic and stupid criticisms labelled at Heavy Metal is in regards to its alleged violence is that most of the bastards trying to ban Metal in the first place are quite happy to cheer lead blowing the holy living shit out of brown people abroad and sending the poor children of American to do it on their behalf. YES I AM TALKING ABOUT YOU TIPPER WHORE! They will be the first against the wall in my revolution for crimes against humanity, although I am partial to the guillotine as proposed by Roseanne Barr - but this is a Metal thing. On the other hand I do want to commemorate the PMRC for services to Metal thanks to Parental Advisory Stickers. 

Because swearing is more offensive than 

cheer leading wars, increasing poverty 

and paying the tithe to the Kraken

However, a new breed of rock stars who are so incredibly dumb that I will use them a human shields and they will do it willingly for 'mah cuntry'. YES I AM TALKING ABOUT YOU KID ROCK YOU COCK SUCKING MORON. His music sucks ass and when an American Rabbi takes offence to your moronic patriotism - you are in an idiotic league of your own. Because a true patriot, someone who really loves their land, laws and institutions does not needless send children to fight wars so corporations can profit. Defending your island is one thing becoming cannon fodder for shareholders is another. 

If you are interested, these are some anti-war/protest songs I've already posted. 

Now let us Pray for Peace by shredding the bastards who stand in our way. The Mystical Lines of Power can slay anything or anyone. 

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Remixes over at Mash Up Ginger, RATM Vids (w/Lyrics) and with Lyrics after the jump. 

One Darkness

A classic video, Metallica's first. A point they should have stopped at in all honesty. Do not call yourself a Metalhead if you hear the word 'Darkness' and do not launch into:

"...Imprisoning me. All that I see, absolute Horror, I cannot live, I cannot die, trapped in myself, body my holding ceeeeeeell.'

And start moshing till your neck breaks off! Seriously.

More versions after the jump:

Napalm and Sodom in the Morning

Who would have thought?

Lyrics after the jump:

Evil Always Comes in Threes