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Fuck yeah, Lamb of God released their new album Wrath on Tuesday, and my brother went out and bought it.

All I can say is it is fucking awesome and probably the best metal album of the year. Its got heavier blast beats, thumping and frenzied double kicks, mean riffs that start and stop abruptly, and wickedly politically charged lyrics again as well.

Contractor for instance is a song about the dodgey Blackwater Mercenaries in Iraq and all the war profiteers:

Chopping lines in international sand
Feeding blood junky habits of the elephant man
Quenching his thirst with black water rising
Executive outcomes on a burning horizon

Not sure about this verse, but the Blackwater rising has got to be about the Blackwater mercenaries (now Xe) and the burning horizon has got to be the oil pipelines on fire…?

Privatize to conceal all the lies,
And big business is boomin’ like its the 4th of July,
No need for all the formalities,
Jump the kangaroo courts and plant the lynching trees

Obviously all the business is privatized, Blackwater are hired guns who don’t have to follow the Geneva conventions cos they are not under a government; so they can rape, kill civilians, kill anyone and do anythign they want basically. Big business is booming, all the defence contractors (Halliburton, McDonnel-Doglas, Boeing, Northrop-Grumman, Carlyle, and Blackwater) and the rebuilding contractors etc making shitloads of money.

Someone has got to die
Ours is not to reason why
Ours is but to do if the pay rate’s right
Black liquid assets fuck the mujahideen
Paint their picket fences red with the American dream

If the pays right who cares if civilians are dying, if the country is dying, they’re getting paid!! Black liquid assets obviously oil, fuck the Mujahideen who are the people trying to fight back against the US who invaded THEIR country, and they should be able to keep the oil because it is in THEIR country so it is theirs not the US’s.

Yeah… fucking good shit guys…

Finally got the alarm put in my van today. $168 for the alarm on clearance price, $225 for the install by Warlocks. No one can steal my stuff now… unless they’re really crafty. So just gotta fix up one of the doors that doesn’t central lock, put the front speakers in, tune all the sounds, and she’ll be finished!

So stoked. Hopefully by next week it’ll all be done.

Bought a guitar also. A BC Rich Warlock with a Marshall amp, only 30w but meh.

Shrap says its a piece of shit, and that BC Rich guitars sound like ass, but fuck him lol, he has a $NZ12,000 guitar! Of course anything is going to sound worse than that. Lucky little bastard Doesn’t matter anyway, I’m going to downtune that badboy so much you won’t be able to hear life let alone ass.

Plus, I found out next year
are releasing a new album! W00t! Hopefully it’ll be real deathy/thrashy! So hopefully they’ll be touring again! Hopefully they’ll come here. So full of hope am I.

So we went to the Lamb of God concert here… kicks ass! It was held at The Powerstation in Mt Eden. Kicked ass, those dudes are so awesome. But holy fuck it was loud, still deaf… Lots of hot goth chicks there too… especially one (two actually but the tall one was really cute), that was dancing near where me and Troy were standing. She was gorgeous… I should have talked to her when she sat next to me, but I froze up.. oh and I have Girlfriend already.

And if you thought death metal concerts were all you get smashed if you fall over… some guy bailed out of his wheelchair and down a few steps, and instantly there were like 5 people helping him back into it. I don’t know where he was when the circle pit opened up though lol.

Got me a shirt too, mean one.. heres a pic:

They only had XL when I got there and it was $40.. worth it though. I wanted a hoodie but they were $70…

I have to say, all that rap crap and “urban” music/culture is so stupid. I was watching that “Don’t you wish your girlfriend was hot like me” music video, and there’s half naked girls jumping around everywhere. Sure they’re nice to look at but that kind of degradation of women should be kept in places like porno and mens magazines. Not the mainstream media.

Especially the things that they sing about, some of it is explicit and this music is accepted by the majority of society. The kids don’t even know what they are singing about and the parents don’t even care. You see little kids walking round with their parent’s wearing all the “homie-g” stuff, and its like WTF?! Take a look at your kids for Christ’s sake!

I have recently watched the movie Idiocracy. Although the movie is kind of a pile of crap, it is about two human army experiments that travel 500 years into the future to discover that the world has become overrun by stupidity, because of anti-intellectualism and dysgenics.

So thinking about that, I swear that this music will turn the worlds population into bumbling idiots that are OK with the degradation of women, shooting people for wearing different colours, and using the english language like a fucking retard!

Now you take a look at metal for instance, and look at the messages that are delivered through it. Although it is a medium that is probably too hardcore to be accepted by the mainstream, the messages definitely should. People have called metal “suicide music” or think that it will give homicidal tendancies, when really, when I hear urban music I want to kill people.

Lamb of God for instance, one of their songs (Ashes Of The Wake) has a voiceover of an American soldier in Iraq saying how

“I honestly feel we’re committing genocide over here,
I don’t believe in killing civilians, and I’m not going to kill civilians for the United States Marine Corp.”

Then you have Hatebreed who’s song Another Day, Another Vendetta proclaims the reason for the angryness of their songs;

Well the answer is plain to see
Just look around at this world that we’re living in.
It’s die or let die

All I see is killing
Another day, another vendetta
There is so much suffering
Another day, another vendetta

And then the amount of homeless in the country…

I see the homeless standing out on the streets
On every corner, they’re asking for money
I try to help them whenever I can but sometimes
I can’t afford to help myself.

…while the leaders spend all their money on foreign wars instead of domestic issues:

I see diseases and modern plagues of our time
The greed of our leaders have made them blind
To our problems, they spend millions over seas
While people right here are fighting wars everyday

In the same vein, there is of course, perhaps the most conspiracal band around, System Of A Down, one song of which, BOOM! proclaims again, how so much money is being spent on war, when it could be better spent on saving people that need saving.

Manufacturing consent,
Is the name of the game,
The bottom line is money,
Nobody gives a fuck.
4000 hungry children leave us per hour,
From starvation,
While billions are spent on bombs,
Creating death showers.

But System of a Down have many, many conspiratist songs, althrough the are much more poetic and somewhat cryptic than other bands.

Seriously, this stuff is what humanity needs to listen to, to think for themselves, not listen to this drivel delivered through the mainstream music genre’s.

Makes you think that there is something bigger going on here – like the goverments are trying to making us stupid by condoling this absolute rubbish.

Anyway, if you want to look up any meanings to any songs that are actually deep enough to have meanings, check out songmeanings.net.