Leftist metal...

[Cheung Mo]

My leftist bands of choice right now (as they've been for a long time) are Skyclad, Rage Against the Machine, System of a Down, and Chumbawamba (I know it's nowhere near to being metal, but I still love listening to their them...Although their most commercially succesful album has become my least favourite.)...What more is there out there?

[Mujer Libre]

The Haunted&#33;&#33; Peter Dolving is an anarchist- so yay for them. Plus their music is FANTASTIC. Now I&#39;m just holding out for them to do a stoner album. <.<

There are also other metal bands that have leftist overtones but aren&#39;t explicitly political, Rammstein, Electric Wizard blah blah blah... My brain just died. :P

[Reuben]

Well it does quite count but david rovics recently released a song with distorted electric guitar over a drum beat. Needless to say he doesnt quite pull it off

[Demogorgon]

At The Gates had left wing views, but you won&#39;t really see it in their music. Many of them joined The Haunted though which is more explicit. And judging from where Tuomas Lindberg has turned up he must be left wing too.

Orphaned Land are an Israeli band who certainly don&#39;t approve of what Israel is doing to say the least, so they may qualify, a lot of religious themes in there music though.

The old German Thrash bands all have left wing elements. Kreator are very left wing. Mille Petrozza is an Anarcho-Syndicalist and Sodom aren&#39;t far behind.

[Inithias]

Ya guys are forgetting a big band &#33; ^^

Sepultura &#33; (& Soulfly)

[Palmares]

Crust (or punk metal) is the most progressive heavy genre.

Check it out yo&#33;

[My Heart is a Molotov]

Crust (or punk metal) is the most progressive heavy genre.

Check it out yo&#33;

i was just thinking that&#33;

[Vladislav]

Rage Against the Machine isn&#39;t metal but whatever.

Try Lamb of God. Get the song Now You&#39;ve Got Something to Die For or Hourglass. Great Songs.

One line in particular stands out:

You finally made it home
draped in the flag that you fell for
and so it goes
the ashes of the wake ( screams "wake" so it sounds good)

[Cheung Mo]

I just found Valiant Thorr on Guitar Hero II...That fits the bill nicely. ... Orphaned Land was fun to listen to, but I have a hard time fulling immersing myself in death (or deathish in this case) metal...I&#39;ll give them another shot.

[Rockfan]

Megadeth&#39;s earlier stuff (Countdown to Extenction and Rust in Peace and of course Peace Sells) has a fair bit of political stuff. Metal isn&#39;t the best genre to express urself politically.

[invocation]

I recommend to you all a band called Killing Joke. They&#39;re definitely socialists, but at times hinted at being commies. They&#39;ve been around for 30 odd years but they are as hard as ever. Check them out: band wiki (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Killing_joke)

[Inithias]

ratm is the perfect prove of punk + metal

[Palmares]

Originally posted by [email protected] 02, 2007 09:37 am
ratm is the perfect prove of punk + metal
No way. RATM are pretty cool sure, but they as fuck are rap metal. They aren&#39;t really fast or thrashy enough to be part of the many genres of punk + metal.

But there is a hell alot of rapping.

[iwwobblie]

More punk than metal, but Leftover Crack.

[Inithias]

But there is a hell alot of rapping.

yeah, that&#39;s true
but the bass, drums and guitar are the mix of some punk and some metal

[leftist manson]

Are we forgeting omething here comrades




Napalm death, carcass, pig destroyer. End discussion/














































j/k

[Clarksist]

Napalm Death are lefties, as are Nasum, Agothacles, Terrorizer, Extreme Noise Terror, etc... those are all grind bands, but hey, grindcore is the best type of music, so no problem there.

[Inithias]

some hardcore metal : Terror &#33;

[RedArmyFaction]

Originally posted by Mujer [email protected] 27, 2007 01:12 pm

There are also other metal bands that have leftist overtones but aren&#39;t explicitly political, Rammstein, Electric Wizard blah blah blah... My brain just died. :P
Rammstein &#33;&#33;&#33;&#33;&#33;&#33;&#33;&#33;&#33;&#33;&#33;&#33;&#33; I&#39;ve seen them 3 times in concert &#33;&#33;

[RebelDog]

I saw Carcass years ago. They were some band.

Great song:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LtLjp5KgFn8


Should be &#39;Corporal Jigsaw Quandary&#39;.

[metalero]

how long ago? I thought they split years ago...

[invocation]

KMFDM is also good...

[RebelDog]

Originally posted by [email protected] 08, 2007 02:21 am
how long ago? I thought they split years ago...
Around 91 or 92. I saw them in Glasgow, the support was Fudge Tunnel.

I might of seen them along with Death on another occasion, but I can&#39;t completely remember.

[atlas]

buckethead is awesome. in fact he did a whole album with viggo mortinson that&#39;s sole purpose was to bash bush and consumerism.

les claypool is pretty good too, but he&#39;s not 100% metal

[Inithias]

viggo, the actor ?

Buckethead played also with Guns N Roses right ?

[metalero]

Originally posted by The Dissenter+April 07, 2007 11:33 pm--> (The Dissenter @ April 07, 2007 11:33 pm)
[email protected] 08, 2007 02:21 am
how long ago? I thought they split years ago...
Around 91 or 92. I saw them in Glasgow, the support was Fudge Tunnel.

I might of seen them along with Death on another occasion, but I can&#39;t completely remember. [/b]
I envy you. so, what other death or blackmetal bands have u seen on stage?

[spanishkev]

Queensryche&#39;s Operation Mindcrime is based on a revolution against society and religion, not sure of the bands political views but I do like the music

[spanishkev]

Even though Dropkick Murphys are punk they are definately leftist, lots of songs about workers and their plight. My favorite is &#39;Buried alive&#39; mainly coz it&#39;s about miners and that&#39;s how my grandfather had to make his way in England when he came over from Ireland

[bcbm]

Iskra, Oakhelm, Fall of the Bastards?

[Inithias]

Originally posted by [email protected] 09, 2007 03:16 am
Even though Dropkick Murphys are punk they are definately leftist, lots of songs about workers and their plight. My favorite is &#39;Buried alive&#39; mainly coz it&#39;s about miners and that&#39;s how my grandfather had to make his way in England when he came over from Ireland
The Dropkicks are great &#33;
And yeah, they have many songs that are leftist actually,
saw them end of April 2006. =D

Greetz,
Ini.

[Inithias]

ow yeah, almost forgot,
it is also NOT metal, but punk ^^

The Exploited &#33;

[Ian]

The Exploited aren&#39;t left wing moron, Wattie has a Swastika tattoo.

Terror also aren&#39;t metal or very political.

[RebelDog]

Originally posted by metalero+April 08, 2007 11:51 pm--> (metalero @ April 08, 2007 11:51 pm)
Originally posted by The [email protected] 07, 2007 11:33 pm

[email protected] 08, 2007 02:21 am
how long ago? I thought they split years ago...
Around 91 or 92. I saw them in Glasgow, the support was Fudge Tunnel.

I might of seen them along with Death on another occasion, but I can&#39;t completely remember.
I envy you. so, what other death or blackmetal bands have u seen on stage? [/b]
I seen some of the old earache label bands in the early nineties. Carcass, Morbid Angel, Entombed, etc. It was a cracking label then overflowing with talent. Most of the bands I went to see were thrash metal bands. Megadeth, Metallica, Slayer, Kreator, Testament, Pantera etc.

[RebelDog]

The Exploited aren&#39;t left wing moron, Wattie has a Swastika tattoo.

Which is a dam shame because &#39;don&#39;t pay the poll tax&#39; is a brilliant song.

[Inithias]

Originally posted by [email protected] 11, 2007 05:39 am
The Exploited aren&#39;t left wing moron, Wattie has a Swastika tattoo.

Terror also aren&#39;t metal or very political.
Moron ? Well, let&#39;s stay friendly kay

wasn&#39;t that the time that kids wanted to shock the ppl ?
&#39;cause The Exploited is called Anarchy Terror Crew, dno

[The Grey Blur]

Originally posted by The Dissenter+April 11, 2007 06:46 am--> (The Dissenter @ April 11, 2007 06:46 am)
Originally posted by [email protected] 08, 2007 11:51 pm

Originally posted by The [email protected] 07, 2007 11:33 pm

[email protected] 08, 2007 02:21 am
how long ago? I thought they split years ago...
Around 91 or 92. I saw them in Glasgow, the support was Fudge Tunnel.

I might of seen them along with Death on another occasion, but I can&#39;t completely remember.
I envy you. so, what other death or blackmetal bands have u seen on stage?
I seen some of the old earache label bands in the early nineties. Carcass, Morbid Angel, Entombed, etc. It was a cracking label then overflowing with talent. Most of the bands I went to see were thrash metal bands. Megadeth, Metallica, Slayer, Kreator, Testament, Pantera etc. [/b]
I salute you.

[ahab]

ALL SHALL PERISH&#33;

they are leftist and METAL&#33;

[Exovedate]

Originally posted by [email protected] 01, 2007 11:37 pm
ratm is the perfect prove of punk + metal

ratm is the perfect prove of punk + metal

ratm is punk? hahaha thanks for the laugh comrade. ratm is rap metal.

[IcarusAngel]

The exploited were clearly anti-capital, anti-authority, etc. and their bands and fans actually had numerous conflicts with skinheads (including being forced off staged off stage cause of them).

AFAIK, they don&#39;t have any songs with racist or nationalistic overtones.

[Inithias]

Originally posted by Witnere+April 11, 2007 07:38 pm--> (Witnere @ April 11, 2007 07:38 pm)
[email protected] 01, 2007 11:37 pm
ratm is the perfect prove of punk + metal

ratm is the perfect prove of punk + metal

ratm is punk? hahaha thanks for the laugh comrade. ratm is rap metal. [/b]
i didn&#39;t say it is punk, it&#39;s the mix of punk with metal

and yeah, ofcourse with rap from zack

[analfilth]

not metal, but heavy with a definite leftist influence would have to be Refused. :wub:

[RaiseYourVoice]

http://www.myvideo.de/watch/101289 :wub:

[Inithias]

owyeah, Disturbed&#39;s kinda nice ^^

[Mujer Libre]

Originally posted by [email protected] 06, 2007 12:13 pm
owyeah, Disturbed&#39;s kinda nice ^^
Ack. Totally sick of being forced to listen to Disturbed... I don&#39;t really like them, and I have this friend who&#39;s completely obsessed with them atm. Bad combination.

Oh, and apparently they don&#39;t even classify themselves as metal- which makes me lol because my friend&#39;s friend&#39;s think they&#39;re totally "metal" (in that Nathan Explosion voice...) but yeah... so not.

But then again these are ridiculous people who weren&#39;t even aware of stoner metal until I enlightened them...

[Fawkes]

You can find a lot of political overtones in some thrash metal (Metallica and Megadeth) and older NWOBHM bands like Iron Maiden (songs like "Run to the Hills", which is about the American Indians fighting the U.S. soldiers and "2 Minutes to Midnight", which is about the impending threat of a nuclear holocaust).

I also want to point out that RATM has very little metal influence and is made up of mostly punk, funk, hard rock, and hip-hop elements. Just by listening to the bass and drums in RATM, one can infer that they have little metal influence.

[Inithias]

Ppl here are not really obsessed by Disturbed, I even think that not so many ppl know them..

but I&#39;ve heard 2 songs of them, and they where kinda nice.
And about that RATM issue, if I may call it that, 1 thing is for sure, they totally rock and are fucking GREAT &#33; ^^

[Fawkes]

Like someone else already said, you can check out Lamb of God because, not only are they leftist, but they are also awesome. Also, the metalcore band Darkest Hour has a lot of leftist lyrics. The song &#39;Vide Infra&#39; by Killswitch Engage talks about egalitarianism regardless of "race or creed or gender". In general, you can usually find a lot of leftist influences in metalcore and death metal music and some black metal.

[OneBrickOneVoice]

anything from Insurgence Records

[Rawthentic]

eeewwww..

I don&#39;t like rock.

[Fawkes]

It doesn&#39;t like you.

[Rawthentic]

I suppose not, it has never attracted me.

Rap and hip-hop is where the shit is at.

[Fawkes]

Originally posted by Voz de la Gente [email protected] 01, 2007 10:05 pm
I suppose not, it has never attracted me.

Rap and hip-hop is where the shit is at.
What rappers do you like?

[Mujer Libre]

Originally posted by Voz de la Gente [email protected] 02, 2007 03:00 am
eeewwww..

I don&#39;t like rock.
Good job dismissing hundreds of genre, and thousands (probably tens of thousands once you consider how many metal sub-genres there are) of sub-genres in one go.

I really hate it when people say "I hate [insert broad musical category here], because chances are you don&#39;t... In fact you probably really like some of it. It&#39;s the kind of thing snotty, cliquey little kids do. :angry:

[Rawthentic]

Clever one Mujer. Get over it.


What rappers do you like?
Sun Rise Above, Immortal Technique, Talib Kweli, TIMZ, The Roots, Akir, Jean Gray, Sabac Red, and Dead Prez.

[Friedrich Nietzsche]

You&#39;re all forgetting the best metal/industrial band...ever(and they just so happen to be leftists. Albeit, far more moderate than most of you lot..):

http://d4rk.org/illustrations/Rammstein.jpg

[Mujer Libre]

Originally posted by Friedrich [email protected] 02, 2007 03:53 am
You&#39;re all forgetting the best metal/industrial band...ever(and they just so happen to be leftists. Albeit, far more moderate than most of you lot..):

http://d4rk.org/illustrations/Rammstein.jpg
Haven&#39;t they been mentioned earlier in the thread? I&#39;m a total fangirl. :lol:

[Friedrich Nietzsche]

Originally posted by Mujer Libre+June 02, 2007 04:03 am--> (Mujer Libre @ June 02, 2007 04:03 am)
Friedrich [email protected] 02, 2007 03:53 am
You&#39;re all forgetting the best metal/industrial band...ever(and they just so happen to be leftists. Albeit, far more moderate than most of you lot..):

http://d4rk.org/illustrations/Rammstein.jpg
Haven&#39;t they been mentioned earlier in the thread? I&#39;m a total fangirl. :lol: [/b]
I&#39;ve read all through this thread, and found not a single reference. I was begining to think this forum was devoid of people with decent taste in music...>.>

[seraphim]

Originally posted by Friedrich Nietzsche+June 02, 2007 12:37 pm--> (Friedrich Nietzsche @ June 02, 2007 12:37 pm)
Originally posted by Mujer [email protected] 02, 2007 04:03 am

Friedrich [email protected] 02, 2007 03:53 am
You&#39;re all forgetting the best metal/industrial band...ever(and they just so happen to be leftists. Albeit, far more moderate than most of you lot..):

http://d4rk.org/illustrations/Rammstein.jpg
Haven&#39;t they been mentioned earlier in the thread? I&#39;m a total fangirl. :lol:
I&#39;ve read all through this thread, and found not a single reference. I was begining to think this forum was devoid of people with decent taste in music...>.> [/b]
Always have time for Rammstein&#33;

[Inithias]

damn, I wanna see them live

[Fawkes]

The main problem with trying to get a specific message across by using metal music is that the lyrics are sometimes inaudible even to experienced listeners depending on the style. Still, if the lyrics are inaudible but are made readily available, the problem is for the most part fixed.

[OneBrickOneVoice]

Originally posted by Voz de la Gente [email protected] 02, 2007 03:42 am
Clever one Mujer. Get over it.


What rappers do you like?
Sun Rise Above, Immortal Technique, Talib Kweli, TIMZ, The Roots, Akir, Jean Gray, Sabac Red, and Dead Prez.
all those rappers are good but mainstream hip-hop has been hijacked. Dead Prez made a really good documentary about how the Industry works to suppress rappers like themselves and IT and Sabac red.

[Friedrich Nietzsche]

Originally posted by [email protected] 02, 2007 11:17 pm
The main problem with trying to get a specific message across by using metal music is that the lyrics are sometimes inaudible even to experienced listeners depending on the style. Still, if the lyrics are inaudible but are made readily available, the problem is for the most part fixed.
<.<...that&#39;s not real metal. That&#39;s screamo bollocks. Though, Rammstein is a bit hard to get the &#39;message&#39; through...to non-German speakers. But hey, German is the best language...ever, for metal.

"It&#39;s music to invade Poland to."

[Fawkes]

Originally posted by Friedrich Nietzsche+June 02, 2007 07:42 pm--> (Friedrich Nietzsche @ June 02, 2007 07:42 pm)
[email protected] 02, 2007 11:17 pm
The main problem with trying to get a specific message across by using metal music is that the lyrics are sometimes inaudible even to experienced listeners depending on the style. Still, if the lyrics are inaudible but are made readily available, the problem is for the most part fixed.
<.<...that&#39;s not real metal. That&#39;s screamo bollocks. Though, Rammstein is a bit hard to get the &#39;message&#39; through...to non-German speakers. But hey, German is the best language...ever, for metal.

"It&#39;s music to invade Poland to." [/b]
Uh, Lamb of God is most certainly not "screamo bollocks". You can hear what they say in most songs, but I won&#39;t believe you if you tell me you can hear what he is saying in "Black Label" without reading the lyrics.

[Mujer Libre]

Originally posted by Nietzsche
<.<...that&#39;s not real metal. That&#39;s screamo bollocks.
Errr, it&#39;s actually pretty much all extreme metal genres.


"It&#39;s music to invade Poland to."
Not really something to be proud of there. Plus that&#39;s something some dumbfuck tabloid writer who just wanted to stir up shit about how "evil" Rammstein are said... So yeah...

[Friedrich Nietzsche]

Originally posted by Mujer Libre+June 03, 2007 05:00 am--> (Mujer Libre @ June 03, 2007 05:00 am)
Nietzsche
<.<...that&#39;s not real metal. That&#39;s screamo bollocks.
Errr, it&#39;s actually pretty much all extreme metal genres.


"It&#39;s music to invade Poland to."
Not really something to be proud of there. Plus that&#39;s something some dumbfuck tabloid writer who just wanted to stir up shit about how "evil" Rammstein are said... So yeah... [/b]
Hey, I play alot of WW2 games...trust me, tat&#39;s a good thing for me...

<.<..

Honestly. What&#39;s better than having Zerstoren playing when there&#39;s Panzers rolling across the French plains, after leaving the Belgium/Luxemborg border?

[Djehuti]

Red Metal:
http://seeyouinhell.wordpress.com/lyssna/

[RedCat]

I think that heavy metal since its beginnings always expressed in lyrics,look, and attitude a strong working class point of view,which hadn&#39;t necessarily been directly expressed, but it emerges here and there: for exapmle Tipton and Downing of Judas Priest remembering the early period of their band recalled their experiences as working class guys that took the noises of the huge factories in Birmingham and put them in their music,also Halford in his solo albums recalls that things....Tony Iommi actually worked in a factory in Birmingham, and often their lyrics have a pacifist antiwar stand, or even revolutionary,think about Children of the grave

[Chicom]

Some leftist Metal bands

Ektomorf (thrash)
Six Feet Under (Death) since they did a song "Amerika the Brutal"
Destruction (Thrash) Did "Fuck the USA" Cover
Beneath The Massacre (Technical Death)
Megadeth (thrash)

[spartan]

i dont know about megadeth bing leftist maybe liberal. mustaines a christian anyway.

[Chicom]

Some nice Heavy Metal From USSR&#33;

http://static.metal-archives.com/images/3/4/3/1/3431.jpg

Kruiz -s/t
http://rapidshare.com/files/30056038/Kruiz...88__-_Kruiz.rar (http://rapidshare.com/files/30056038/Kruiz__1988__-_Kruiz.rar)

[Saint Street Revolution]

Black Sabbath was against corrupt politicans, shown in the song "War Pigs"

[Saint Street Revolution]

Originally posted by Friedrich Nietzsche+June 03, 2007 12:42 am--> (Friedrich Nietzsche @ June 03, 2007 12:42 am)
[email protected] 02, 2007 11:17 pm
The main problem with trying to get a specific message across by using metal music is that the lyrics are sometimes inaudible even to experienced listeners depending on the style. Still, if the lyrics are inaudible but are made readily available, the problem is for the most part fixed.
<.<...that&#39;s not real metal. That&#39;s screamo bollocks. Though, Rammstein is a bit hard to get the &#39;message&#39; through...to non-German speakers. But hey, German is the best language...ever, for metal.

"It&#39;s music to invade Poland to." [/b]
Dude I fucking DARE YOU to make sense of Cradle of Filth or Deicide without a lyrics sheet.

[Dimentio]

Originally posted by Cheung [email protected] 27, 2007 12:06 pm
My leftist bands of choice right now (as they&#39;ve been for a long time) are Skyclad, Rage Against the Machine, System of a Down, and Chumbawamba (I know it&#39;s nowhere near to being metal, but I still love listening to their them...Although their most commercially succesful album has become my least favourite.)...What more is there out there?
Öystein Aarseth in Mayhem was a communist, until Varg stabbed him to death in 1993.

[Asstrumpet]

Originally posted by Fawkes+June 03, 2007 04:35 am--> (Fawkes @ June 03, 2007 04:35 am)
Originally posted by Friedrich [email protected] 02, 2007 07:42 pm

[email protected] 02, 2007 11:17 pm
The main problem with trying to get a specific message across by using metal music is that the lyrics are sometimes inaudible even to experienced listeners depending on the style. Still, if the lyrics are inaudible but are made readily available, the problem is for the most part fixed.
<.<...that&#39;s not real metal. That&#39;s screamo bollocks. Though, Rammstein is a bit hard to get the &#39;message&#39; through...to non-German speakers. But hey, German is the best language...ever, for metal.

"It&#39;s music to invade Poland to."
Uh, Lamb of God is most certainly not "screamo bollocks". You can hear what they say in most songs, but I won&#39;t believe you if you tell me you can hear what he is saying in "Black Label" without reading the lyrics. [/b]
Ya know, Randy wrote lyrics to that song after recording it. They were drunk on Black Label (hence the name) and Randy is just randomly screaming. They used an old sketch of lyrics Randy had already written and published them as Black Label&#39;s lyrics.

[Asstrumpet]

Originally posted by Grandma Sweater+August 23, 2007 02:24 am--> (Grandma Sweater @ August 23, 2007 02:24 am)
Originally posted by Friedrich [email protected] 03, 2007 12:42 am

[email protected] 02, 2007 11:17 pm
The main problem with trying to get a specific message across by using metal music is that the lyrics are sometimes inaudible even to experienced listeners depending on the style. Still, if the lyrics are inaudible but are made readily available, the problem is for the most part fixed.
<.<...that&#39;s not real metal. That&#39;s screamo bollocks. Though, Rammstein is a bit hard to get the &#39;message&#39; through...to non-German speakers. But hey, German is the best language...ever, for metal.

"It&#39;s music to invade Poland to."
Dude I fucking DARE YOU to make sense of Cradle of Filth or Deicide without a lyrics sheet. [/b]
True. Death and Black (especially Black) metal sometimes come almost completely unintelligible. There&#39;s alot of Death Metal bands that you can understand alright though, like Lamb of God.

[Boriznov]

Sepultura

[T Hill Reject]

Here&#39;s one good metal site Metalheads Against Racism, it&#39;s not the leftist one but it&#39;s Anti-Fa... http://www.metalheadsagainstracism.org/ so I guess that anyone who is interested in that type of music can find out more about the bands which are even left wing oriented there.