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Defected to the U.S.S.R.: 12 May 2010, 07:43 Ideology: Other Leftist Politburo karlmarx1 wrote: Damn it, this makes me wish somebody had done a rock version of the Soviet National Anthem with the Red Army Choir accompanying. “Conservatism is the blind and fear-filled worship of dead radicals” - Mark Twain
There is a sub-genre called RABM: Red Anarchist Black Metal. Whether or not it is a legitametely recognized genre is debatable, but still there are some nice bands if you're into black metal. The following are leftist bands in some way, be it communist or anarchist or whatever, some is grindcore or hardcore punk.
Martyrdod Terzij de Horde Wolves in the Throne Room Our Last Rain Militia Jarost Marksa KYPCK Rotten Sound Napalm Death Aus-Rotten Slaughter 2017 Iskra Timebomb Neverchrist Radioskugga The Dead Musician Dodsangel Pantopticon Мракобесие
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Defected to the U.S.S.R.: 14 Jan 2010, 05:46 Ideology: Marxism-Leninism Party Member
I think rage against the machine has socialist lyrics. I'm not sure but I know they are left wing and they made a music video about the shining path. Also they are more of a rap-metal or funk-metal band but they are still metal they are heavy. and I rember reading about a black metal dude who's a Stalinist communist but I think he might of been killed by the guy from Burzum I forget.
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Defected to the U.S.S.R.: 28 Feb 2009, 03:41 Party Member
some guy recommended dying fetus to me, albeit i don't really like it, it's decent though. and they are radical left, i didnt know that. i thought most socialist black metal sucked( though nsbm ain't better) but wolves in the throne room is one of my favorite anymore. i heard there iskra asblack metal band though i haven't heard much. most socialist black metal is from the ambient or atmosheric genre.
The oldest and most respected soviet band with a pro-bolshevik period is Grazdanskay Oborona, from Siberia /Гражданская Оборона, transl. 'Citizen Defense'/
The main guy behind the music and ideas was the guitarist/vocalist Egor Letov, RIP 2008 In 1985 the first few home-made demos were recorded, the KGB cracked down and Letov spent a few months in a mental hospital. Apparently oblivious to how the CIA's LSD experiments created inadvertedly an anti-establishment transcedental movement, the soviet doctors pumped Letov with psychedelics and deliriants. Perhaps he would have remained on the level of crude punk rock had they not done that. The three ideological periods of the band roughly correspond to the decades of its existence: 1980's - anarchist period. Notable songs: Poganaya Molodez; I Snova Temno 1990's - bolshevik period. Notable songs: Eshe Nemnogo; Ubivat. 2000's - psychedelic psychonaut period. Notable songs: Slava Psihonavtam; Vse Eto s Toboi. this is a link to a site where after about three clicks the songs can be downloaded one by one: http://musicmp3.spb.ru/allsongs/1512/gr ... orona.html place two for downloads: http://muzjaka.ru/authors/526.html. Press a song, then a bunch of text in cyrillic will appear. The first line of fat green letters is the download link. Enjoy
I've listen to Jarost Marksa, but it's pretty unbearable.....
There is a slovakian anarchist punk band called Idiots Parade http://www.myspace.com/idiotsparade666 ![]()
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Defected to the U.S.S.R.: 10 Jun 2011, 22:53 New Comrade (Say hi & be nice to me!)
I'd like to show you a trash/folk metal band from the UK.
Their lyrics are always very political as you can see in these videos: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jliSWxcGWA8 Skyclad - Inequality Street Lyrics: Quote: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IVJkVCWX ... re=related Skyclad - The Parliament Of Fools Lyrics: Quote: More info here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skyclad_(band) http://www.skycladmusic.co.uk/index.php Official website Hope you like them. They're one of my favorite bands Fitzy wrote: How about Rap and Hip Hop? No, not very metal to bring in rap, but it is worth a listen if you're open to it over ideology. Among one of their first named influences isn't even a musician - Huey P Newton, cofounder and leader of the US Communist group, The Black Panther Party for Self-Defense. There is a fairly rich tradition of American Hip Hop focusing on racial discrimination - which has long lent itself to Socialist and Communist ideologies. Anyone who remembers comedian Dave Chappelle's sketch comedy show will find the beat to their most popular piece familiar: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LhnXAIwUehM Mr Lif actually re-released his entire album "I Heard it Today" for free in solidarity with Occupy Oakland's mass strike - a demonstration which successfully shut down all commerce in the entire city. Immortal Technique focuses quite a bit on these issues as well - if you're into "I don't give f**k" Socialist Rap, I highly recommend his album "3rd World" and more recently "The Martyr" which he released for free. Where Dead Prez has been absorbed into the movement for African American revitalization in the US, and Mr Lif is playing with Anarchists on OWS, Immortal Technique only gets deeper into the ideology with time. IT's page on his indy label: http://viperrecords.com/index.php/artis ... -technique and the direct link to the album, hosted for free by said label: http://www.viperrecords.com/mart/Immort ... Martyr.zip I actually found this forum via a google search for Socialist Metal. The rap has it's place (some of it being stellar within Rap genre, even when we leave out the ideology), but finding Metal that shares my ideas is like coming home to find a close comrade has moved in next door.
Due to the lack of communist oriented lyrics, why not listen to some instrumental pieces and fill in the themes yourselves?
I love me some good ol jazz myself, and I'm guessing most people here would like some refined music, so I'd suggest that. The way Thelonius Monk and most Bebop Jazz artists purpousely incorporate dissonance in their music forces you to pay attention to the music instead of it going inside one ear and going out the other, kind of like a protest or quest for the consonance and relief. Can be abstractly interpreted as a search for change or a representation of the human condition: to always be in an unstable state, striving for balance and things that fill us to ultimately reach stability and comfort. Now, I'm going waaaaaay off track and my ability to critic music ain't that good, but hey, keep the instability in mind and listen to Bebop. If it doens't do it for you, well, I tried http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OMmeNsmQaFw http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=__OSyznVDOY http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=me7P9qqBgwI
This soviet heavy metal song I found on youtube is perfomed by group "Dialog" in 1988 and its lyrics from the little russian I know are anticommunist and they are talking about the decadence of the kremlin.Check it out
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=phdervK-9r8
There is one Turkish socialist metal band called Murder King:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lv8UZ8wlTGQ
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Defected to the U.S.S.R.: 24 Jun 2011, 08:37 Party Bureaucrat
Misery Index is a death metal / grindcore band with explicit left wing lyrics in the Napalm Death tradition. Look up the lyrics to some of the stuff off the Retaliate album. It's good stuff.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yEzYRFRi8FE Rising from the tide, a Kraken cloaked in wisdom, propagates his lies, For love of living death... As faith in leaders falter and dole-queues stretch for snake-like miles Untruths in unwritten law annihilate imagination Hope becomes a process, the intravenous feed That's bound in tune with "progress" - in dialectic comedy Problems rise in culture, where contradiction's known to breed And puppeteers unquestioned string up the masses in their sleep These guardians of comfort and selfishness decreed Will deify convenience at all expense of every human need The Lies that bind are lies unbinding... More demagogues emerging, the paradise parade begins Everything is perfect, and "time" is all we need to save And just as oceans swallow, all ships that sink in time This spectacle will crumble, from false and ill-conceived design These fragile frames are breaking, and knots will soon come undone The bloody fields of history have yet another war to come... As chants turn into anthems, and shouts turn into battle cries The statues of their heroes gone, crack and yield to newborn human lives Tired of marching to their tune in time, the gears of oppression have ceased No light at the end of the production line- show us that this life's worth living Books are burning in the night, where consciousness is laid to rest Another dream falls out of sight...and what have we to show for this? Soviet America is Free America!
Under communism, there is no freedom; you are not free to live in poverty, be homeless, to be without an education, to starve, or to be without a job
Seems way too long for a grindcore song.
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Defected to the U.S.S.R.: 24 Jun 2011, 08:37 Party Bureaucrat Kirov wrote: Yeah, they're like half between Death and grind. So you do get some songs over 42 seconds Soviet America is Free America!
Under communism, there is no freedom; you are not free to live in poverty, be homeless, to be without an education, to starve, or to be without a job
The first such metal band that comes to mind is Otep. I'm not sure as to their exact ideology but they have released some songs with a revolutionary left message. Most notably, "Smash the Control Machine".
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