I'm starting to get the feeling the government doesn't always work in our best interest

  • Amerikan Pharaoh@lemmygrad.ml
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    8 months ago

    Mustaine's chuddishness is tearing me apart, my mother raised me on Megadeth trying to keep me away from what my culture's music actually sounds like. I'd memorized the entire Countdown to Extinction album by the time I was 11. And now this.

    • Des [she/her, they/them]
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      8 months ago

      meanwhile i got my dad into Megadeth when i was a teen and exploring metal. he was just a generic ACDC 70s rock guy

      found out later about what a POS Mustaine was.

      all the good politics are in the screamy hardcore-adjacent metal bands. listen to Unearth to get good thrash with a side of hardcore but also good politics

      • BelieveRevolt [he/him]
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        8 months ago

        Damn, does Unearth have good politics? I really liked their album The Oncoming Storm when it came out, but never really listened too much to anything after that.

        • Des [she/her, they/them]
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          8 months ago

          yeah they are green anarchists/socialists. frontman used to spend a lot of time fucking with right wingers and libs on twitter until he decided it was too annoying

          their recent albums are waaay more blackpilled though but for good reason with climate change + nuclear war being the main themes

    • JoeByeThen [he/him, they/them]
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      8 months ago

      yea I was a teen when Countdown came out. I basically cut my teeth on Metallica and Megadeth. Was a real shock when the Napster Bad happened and the Internet started making it easier to see these guys views' outside of the MTV/RollingStone filter.

      • BelieveRevolt [he/him]
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        8 months ago

        I've never really forgiven them for the anti-Napster bullshit. Their music at the time had become the most boring, safe radio rock too.

        The whole thing was just bizarre in retrospect: who's going to be the first to raise a stink about Napster? Maybe one of the mainstream pop artists like Britney Spears or the Backstreet Boys? Nope, it's fucking Metallica, who built their careers around being anti-establishment, and were also rich enough that they didn't need any more money. Incredibly funny that they'd willingly destroy their credibility.

        • SSJ2Marx
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          8 months ago

          I've never really forgiven them for the anti-Napster bullshit

          Same. To this day I refuse to legally listen to any Metallica song. It might be petty but I've been doing it since I was like sixteen so I'm not gonna stop now.

        • the_post_of_tom_joad [any, any]
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          8 months ago

          Watch this tho. Someone changed "nothing else matters" to major scale and changed the whole feel. i think it's cool https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=oruno-NlJh0