In the original forum, there was a thread called “Anti-Illumanti Songs”. This thread is a second version of it. Post any songs that are about society, government, the media, anything rebellious or invoking.
Starting with Disturbed cover of “Land of Confusion”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gOP6XN45OEk
Pretty much most of Muse’s discography especially this song.
MAGGIE’S FARM- Bob Dylan
I ain’t gonna work on Maggie’s farm no more
No, I ain’t gonna work on Maggie’s farm no more
Well, I wake up in the morning, fold my hands and pray for rain
I got a head full of ideas that are drivin’ me insane
It’s a shame the way she makes me scrub the floor
I ain’t gonna work on Maggie’s farm no more
I am an actual extreme metalhead who is very deep into the genres,
death metal, brutal death metal, slamming brutal death metal,
black metal, raw black metal, war metal (black/death metal), doom metal, death/doom, funeral doom metal,
grindcore, goregrind, and more.
I have been into extreme metal for 18 years.
I will make a thread on extreme metal soon when I am free and have time.
Brutal Truth, Napalm Death and Terrorizer are grindcore/death metal (deathgrind) bands that criticize politics, war, society, corporations, capitalism, and these three bands also talk about social issues.
The death metal band Bolt Thrower is also an anti-war band.
Please read the lyrics to Brutal Truth’s, Napalm Death’s and Terrorizer’s albums for more anti-society songs.
Here are Napalm Death’s albums.
https://www.metal-archives.com/bands/Napalm_Death/219
Here are Brutal Truth’s albums.
https://www.metal-archives.com/bands/Brutal_Truth/606
Here are Terrorizer’s albums, specifically, check out their 1989 album World Downfall.
https://www.metal-archives.com/bands/Terrorizer/1022
Here is the 1992 anti-society song, Walking Corpse by Brutal Truth, warning, this song is deathgrind, so deathgrind is made to be very intense on purpose.
Don’t listen to this song unless you actually like death metal.
Their 1992 album, Extreme Conditions Demand Extreme Responses, is an anti-society, anti-war album.
Lyrics:
Preconditioned.
Accepting your role.
Robbed of life and stripped of soul.
Fall into the same routine.
Of drab existence, what does it mean?
Are you satisfied with the way that you exist?
Every single day just like the one before.
Don’t you feel the need to express the way you feel?
Wake your sleeping brain, there’s so much more.
Just a walking corpse
Preconditioned.
Accepting your role.
Robbed of life and stripped of soul.
Fall into the same routine.
Of drab existence, what does it mean?
Are you satisfied with the way that you exist?
Every single day just like the one before.
Don’t you feel the need to express the way you feel?
Wake your sleeping brain, there’s so much more.
Just a walking corpse
Just a walking corpse
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If any of you want more anti-society metal songs, let me know, I’m happy to find anti-society songs for you.
Here’s a great quote by Ozzy Osbourne in a TV documentary about him a few years ago when a stage manager rigged up a bubble machine to blow bubbles across the stage..
“F—–g bubbles???…I’m supposed to be the Prince of f——g Darkness, I don’t want no f——g bubbles !!!”
Well there is great non-metal music like rock, blues, jazz, classical, ambient, and more.
Here’s the most important quote from Ozzy that, ideally, every musician should follow (they do not), and have humility and love for their audience.
Atheist - Why Bother? , progressive death/thrash metal with jazz influences, from their 1989 debut album, Piece of Time.
You may not like this song unless you actually like thrash metal.
Atheist criticize religion, life, and politics.
Despite the name of the band, Atheist, the founder of the band, Kelly Schaefer, is a Christian, and believes in God, as how God is written about in the Bible.
On his Metal-Archives artist profile, it says,
‘Contrary to the name of his band, Kelly has clarified in interviews that he is not an atheist: “I don’t believe in God as it is written in the Bible. I believe truly that God is love…and love is inside me.”’
If you go to Metal-Archives.com and search up Kelly Schaefer in the top right corner search bar, under the option “Artist”, you’ll find him.
Atheist - Why Bother? Lyrics
Stop and look around at politics
No, nothing’s changed, it still remains
The same old fear, the things we hear
I’ve heard enough, I won’t adhere
Why bother voting?
It won’t do us any good
Octogenarian leaders
Telling us they would
I know that there’s got to be a way
There’s not that much that you or I can say
To make a dent in the land of the free
The darker side of life they never see
Election time is here, but do you care?
It’s not our choice, we cannot voice
If they won’t hear, the issue’s clear
A more modern plan to run this land
Here are two songs by the second death metal band, Death.
The songs are Living Monstrosity and Low Life, both from their 1990 album Spiritual Healing.
This is where Death began creating the progressive death metal genre.
This is death metal.
The song Living Monstrosity is about criticizing a pregnant crack cocaine addict, who took crack cocaine while pregnant, and her baby is born with serious birth defects, born addicted to crack cocaine.
The song Low Life is criticizing the fake people of society who present facades, and think they are superior than everyone else, but are actual leeches, parasites and drains on society.
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The first death metal band was Possessed.
I will make the thread on metal and rock soon, when I have time, and talk about Possessed and other bands.
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Living Monstrosity
Low Life
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Living Monstrosity Lyrics
Every day blows by in the world of corrupt addiction
With life comes pain withdrawals and deformation
Breaking the mold of human appearance
Contorting bodies with chemical interference
The guilty one, innocent she now cries
A life of hell, better off to die
Born without eyes, hands and half a brain
Being born addicted to cocaine
Living monstrosity
A freak for life they’ll always be
Never knowing love or hate
Only pain the drug creates
Some say she’s naive, she’s a stupid bitch
Some say to forgive, guilty she should die
The beginning of the end begins at birth
Breeding masses of twisted screaming flesh
An example we should make out of
These creators of misfortune
A serious crime that should not be forgiven
The guilty one, innocent she now cries
A life of hell, better off to die
Born without eyes, hands and half a brain
Being born addicted to cocaine
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Low Life Lyrics
Those who are a waste of life
Use up air that others could breathe
Human leaches all around
Looking superior is what they believe
Fake is a word you represent
Your existence on earth I resent
At the cost of others you get by
Each word that you speak is a lie
Low life - that’s all you’ll ever be
Lies in effect - that’s what you like to see
Hiding behind material values
That help cover up your weakness
Never to change, always to look
For an easy way out of life
A pathetic excuse for a human being
Nothing to back you up, never giving second thought
Thinking you fool the world, into seeing something you are not
Fake is a word you represent
Your existence on earth I resent
At the cost of others you get by
Each word that you speak is a lie
Low life - that’s all you’ll ever be
Lies in effect - that’s what you like to see
