Soundtrack for these dark times?

Rage against the machine, all of them, can't miss

Nobody said System? Maybe I missed it. Toxicity the album. Individual tracks: Prison Song, Deer Dance, BYOB.

Nine Inch Nails - Year Zero. Christofascism and the apocalypse. Still relevant almost 20 years later.

System of a Down is GOAT

Godspeed You! Black Emperor — F#A#∞

I'm cruising through Rise Against constantly, because a ton of their songs resonate with my anger

Not a whole album but I had found this little modern folk song specifically about the current state of the US a while back:

https://open.spotify.com/track/5ff9fGBykcLIctsvauVTod

Oh say can you see what I see The future ain’t what it used to be And I’m not proud of anything That I have seen tonight

So tell me ‘bout that flag you wave And what your bumper stickers say And how you parse apart your faith Who's seated on the right?

So dress up in your suit and tie And say your thank yous real polite And raise your arm out to the sky Your fuhrer is your friend

And when that grifter steps in shit They lick his boots from heel to tip Or feel the wrath of all of it Praise Jesus Christ amen

Cause now we’re great again

Dissolve the law and federal courts Defund the peer reviewed reports Retract the hand that feeds the poor The hungry ones can’t speak

So raise a glass to business whores The autocrats and saboteurs And text the world about your wars Let flow your whiskey leaks

Berate the south, invade the north And conquer all impoverished shores Identify and then extort All those who lack defense

Forget the Paine of Common Sense We reign with our incompetence And designate all immigrants As sick and evil men

Cuz now… we’re great again

Then Francis Key tries to explain That freedom’s not a first class train Your red hat cannot be exchanged As credit toward your rent

The land of all the free’s a lie So where do all the brave reside The bombs are bursting through the sky That’s where your money went

A modern Betsy Ross has made A flag that fascists celebrate Our motto now commemorates The sword above the pen

No we are not inspired hosts Your huddled and your tired folks Are propaganda for our shows And we are not your friend

But now… we’re great again

Now weakness is admitting wrong So do your part and play along The showroom on the White House lawn Would make your grandad proud

So tell me who needs enemies When you've got Fox and friends like these Who spend the daytime on their knees In service to the crown

We bow down to the motorcades With banners and our boat parades The emperor we celebrate’s Not wearing anything

That starry spangled banner waves Goodbye to golden yesterdays The ramparts now have all been raised To clearly represent

That now... somehow... we are great again

Rage Against The Machine

Obsolete by Fear Factory

It's a concept album that involves fighting against a totalitarian police state that subjugates humans to the machines they created.

It also has an awesome "Cars" cover for whenever you're feeling good.

HEALTH

Ordinary loss https://youtu.be/-tvl8sDu9vo

Demi-gods https://youtu.be/dbSPb0bFmms

Free to die https://youtu.be/F5nCQW53l-E

Rage against the machine, Dropkick Murphys, NOFX

The first Rage Against The Machine album feels more relevant today then when it was released. Like this is the first time I've really, really felt like RATMs intended audience and not a 3rd person.

If and when I want to feel political listening to music, it's mostly RATM or some down to earth 90's black rap, such as Wu-Tang Clan (I'm white though). Occasionally I drink a few and sing Bella Ciao until my voice gives out.

Otherwise, nowadays, I'm mostly depressed (clinically) and I often just flee into some darksynth like Perturbator.

Atari Teenage Riot has been my go to. Digital Punk anarchist.

Check out the !music@slrpnk.net community, it's usually pretty political, and has some diverse genres.

I dunno, my daily mix is my daily mix.

Leftover Crack - Fuck World Trade

Panopticon's album Kentucky. Still hoping to see the level of solidarity and mutual aid those Appalachian coal miners embodied.

From King Crimson's first album:

• 21st Century Schizoid Man
• Epitaph
• The Court of the Crimson King

Anything by Reagan Youth is gonna scratch that itch

Incubus - A Crow Left of the Murder

Grandson.

Check out their newish single BRAINROT to start. That album Inertia is packed with great music.

Yeah, watch the world fall off its axis Watch the bombs go off, paid for by your taxes Watch the Met Ball, watch the brainrot Watch the Go-Pro footage of the headshot

Too relevant.

Also check out Blood // Water.

Great shit that really speaks.

What you gon' do when there's blood in the water? The price of your greed is your son and your daughter What you gon' do when there's blood in the water?

Public Enemy - Say It Like It Really Is - especially the video.

Wheres the revolution by depeche mode is pretty good :)

Post what you're listening to on !eternalplaylist@crazypeople.online IMO.

Ironically, R.E.M.- It's the End of the World As We Know. It
Unironically, Rage Against The Machine, Public Enemy
Also this: https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-lists/best-protest-songs-1235154848/

Refused

Cro-Mags

Napalm Death

Power Trip

Iron Reagan

Exodus

Non-metal suggestions:

Thievery Corporation

Skinny Puppy

Massive Attack

Deafheaven - Revelator, Black Brick

I switched from almost all jazz, electroswing mostly, the summer of 2024 and added in what little dark hard rock I knew, or whatever you call it, like tool and rage against the machine, a perfect circle, old stuff. I knew we were fucked in july 2024. For sure fucked I knew before, I actually called kamala getting the nomination after biden back in like 2019.

Want some more kind of dark or hard stuff to listen to, but there was a lot more good rage against the machine stuff than I was aware, they weren't as popular as tool where I grew up.

Subhumans

Will of the people is great but in my personal opinion they've never topped the greatness of Uprising.

It's been around for a while now but in case anyone hasn't heard it: https://youtu.be/w8KQmps-Sog

Or for something a little more raw and underground, these folks came out and gave a great performance at a local rally in my city: https://youtu.be/VNH1ytlS5-g

Muse

If you can get hold of it, there’s a live set from a Big Day Out in Sydney getting around if you can find it.

I saw the Brisbane set. That was two days before the Sydney one, which incidentally was this date (26th), 2004 IIRC. It was one of the best live sets I’ve ever seen.

Amazing band. Live and on record.

"Father's Advice" from the album Songs for Parents Who Like Drugs by Hamil on Trial

the entire album The Great Depression by Defiance, OH

"SST" by Strike Anywhere

Bluegrass and independent country artists are getting really good with their messaging lately.

Chumbawamba

I love muse

Check out here's solo work.

And flogging molly

Dieselboy - The Dungeonmaster's Guide

https://tidal.com/browse/album/14620847?u

Perhaps you will recall Knights of Cydonia from back then.

Doom metal

Here are a few:

Fen - Monuments to Absence (post-black metal)

GY!BE - NO TITLE (post-rock)

Ashenspire - Hostile Architecture (avant-garde black metal)

A Silver Mt Zion - this is our punk rock... (Post-rock)

As far as I can tell Muse has only one good song (Take a bow). And even that is a bit cheesy.

Enter Shikari - A Flash Flood of Colour

How are we gonna get through this alive?
It's not too late
It's not too late

Check out the album titled The Holy Bible by The Manic Street Preachers.

Expedition 33 soundtrack. I don't wanna know nothing about reality half of the time.

There's a handful of Audioslave tracks that could work. Going to listen to them shortly, I'll mention some specific tracks. Definitely my favorite rock band of all time. RIP Chris.

Start a playlist with Voidnet. You'll feel like you're in a terminator movie fast.

Super old school folk/country western or other older clasic rock. Its got its stigmas and opinions but if you control your Playlist library then id recommend adding the generic artists like Kat Steven, Willie Nelson, Dylan or stretch out to other mega-artists from that gen like the Beatles. Everyone knows their name and knows their billboard br3akers but theyr library is sooo deep with artists like that, there will absolutely be songs you never heard that sound better than their chary toppers.

My last recommendation: go down the limit Hendricks live recordings, rabbit hole.

If you are like me you might write off most rge artist ive named as being too... idk... legendary. But what ive found empirically, is that even the worst songs from great artists are better than any great song by an average to good artist.

To the Wilder by Woodkid.

Nothingface is good angry music.

Germany has many great punk bands. Fahnenflucht, Slime, Pascow, Terrorgruppe, WIZO, Fucking Angry, Feine Sahne Fischfilet, HASS.... so many great bands. I could go on. lol

Kill Memory Crash - Crash v8.

The entire album channels rage.

https://youtu.be/hrkRU1fHl6U

Came here to mention king gizzard and the lizard wizard who is carrying all of the genres into the future.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=4CSCjCSCjJM&list=OLAK5uy_m1ABaNjc7jZhb8FNXn4j9VtYZcH1zNN18&pp=ygUZS2dsdyBpbmZlc3QgdGhlIHJhdHMgbmVzdA%3D%3D

https://music.youtube.com/watch?v=mQYJYY4VkWA

Edge of a Revolution by Nickelback

Change by Taylor Swift

No Place Like Home from Wicked: For Good

Glow by aviators

https://youtu.be/ppG_fCn2IIg

Red water Dreams by aviators

Eye of the storm by aviators

Writing on the walls by aviators

Wartorn by aviators

Raise your flag by hidden citizens

The times they are a changing.

youtube.com/watch?v=MClg7zpm6V…

Looking for justice? Seek out a Headhunter.

Bullet by Hollywood undead

I remember once reading that in bleak times, like the Great Depression, people historically favored upbeat movies; they wanted escapism. And then in boom times, people tend to favor grittier movies.

There might be something to that. That is, if you're not happy, you might be better off consuming happier media.

Beat Us, by B. Fleischmann.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E6dccz7ozro