Protest 100: Brutal Truth – ‘Get A Therapist…Spare the World’

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Artist:          Brutal Truth

Song:           Get A Therapist…Spare the World

Album:        Evolution Through Revolution

Producer:     Doug White, Sanford Parker

Label:          Relapse

Year:           2009

Notes:
Outside sources can offer comfort, validation, someone to blame; but peace starts within.

Excerpt from ‘Unreality’ —
“Bradley has been making steady progress toward reducing his therapy. This afternoon a new crease appeared. Though not troubling in terms of its potential for physical harm, it offers a window as to how profound Bradley’s condition might be.”

Lyrics:
Policy of war want more
Callous in your thinking need belief in
What you’d like to find a little piece of mind
But you only find the clandestine

Do as they say — stop thinking
Ask why — they lie
Straight line — cross ties
Genocide — life crime

Bark or bite with no reason why
Future crimes mankind
Graze the sheep are all rolling by
Man and slaughter — we’re all fine…just fine

Do as they ask, back off, behave
With their thoughts, your life
Their grip, feel life slip

All bark, no bite
Feel insane, that’s normal
No one likes this order
Time to ride let’s ride

All this bark all of this might… is it worth the fight
Change is hard for one, imagine global one
All this pain and suffering just go away
If we stopped to think – think

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‘Protest 100’s mission is two-fold: dispelling the myth that heavy metal is a brainless, socially unaware music genre, and raising awareness of the issues facing our country in the Nov. 3, 2020 election. The path won’t be exclusively metal—some punk and rap and other stuff will be in here too, including the classics—and is not a ranking. All songs are songs I’ve heard while putting this list together, ordered in a manner designed to entertain and educate.

Protest 100: Napalm Death – ‘When All Is Said and Done’

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Artist:          Napalm Death

Song:           When All Is Said and Done

Album:        Smear Campaign

Producer:    Russ Russell

Label:          Century Media

Year:           2006

Notes:
People can believe (and even practice) both religion and science. The choice to shun either is conscious, as is the choice to shun those who adhere solely to one or the other. The divide isn’t real. We’re all here together and can either spend our time vexing one another or acting for one another’s benefit. But first we must make the effort to see beyond ourselves.

Excerpt from ‘Unreality’ —
It was an age-old maneuver: when addressing a group of angry halfwits, ask questions leading to some more-generalized inflammatory point than whatever brought you to their attention.

Lyrics:
Blindness feeds the world to madness
Faith’s crumbling, there’s no doubt about it
Religion and science fighting a new kind of war

Helpless – wander the streets in desperation
Fearless – to the path they tread
Shameless – the powers that butcher
Ignorant to the deeds that they commit

When all is said and done
Heaven lies in my heart
No slave to beliefs that propagate pain
When all is said and done
Heaven lies in our hearts
This life is a gift to be lived and loved

Fracturing the structure of nature
Iconic catalysts to slaughter
A stalemate bursting bound by contradictions

Heartless – divine blueprints of hatred
Selfless – Diseased masterplans
Shameless – the powers that butcher
Ignorant to the deeds that they commit

Decoded treachery shielding the tyranny
Black Bible tyrants behind masks of righteousness
Relentless – the onslaught of misunderstanding
Descending into a unified chaos

One more chance for a shot at redemption
Lost within, can we summon the might?

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‘Protest 100’s mission is two-fold: dispelling the myth that heavy metal is a brainless, socially unaware music genre, and raising awareness of the issues facing our country in the Nov. 3, 2020 election. The path won’t be exclusively metal—some punk and rap and other stuff will be in here too, including the classics—and is not a ranking. All songs are songs I’ve heard while putting this list together, ordered in a manner designed to entertain and educate.

Protest 100: Heathen Beast – ‘F**k Your Police Brutality’

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https://heathenbeast.bandcamp.com/track/fuck-your-police-brutality

Artist:          Heathen Beast

Song:           Fuck Your Police Brutality

Album:        The Revolution Will Not Be Televised But It Will Be Heard

Producer:    Heathen Beast

Label:          self (Bandcamp)

Year:           2020

Notes:
We’re not alone in facing the challenges of the day. Heathen Beast hails from India. Every song title on their new album begins with the word ‘Fuck’ and then offers a new target for their derision. The BJP, self-proclaimed godmen, and Whatsapp University are just some of the subjects aside from excessive police force. As one local put it on Reddit: “I am an Indian and I can vouch for every single fucking kind of governmental brutality that’s been mentioned in this album. This album aptly describes the kind of massive fuck up the current Indian society is. Hatred, dirty religious radicalism, paranoia, disgusting thought processes of the majority, etc., are rampant in the country thanks to the current government. And it doesn’t seem to be subsiding soon.”

Excerpt from ‘Unreality’  —
“You know where the fuck Sarge is? Do you?!? Fucker is dead. Fucker is D-E-A-D.”

Lyrics
Shoot to kill, only Muslims
Shoot to hurt, only students, Direct orders.
Shoot to kill, disperse protesters
Shoot to kill, Who controls the police? Home minister.

To control a crowd you lathi charge you hit on the legs
The police chooses brutality smashing students on the head
Entering the library and shooting tear gas shells
Police breaking the CCTV makes it clear who is innocent.

Who will save us from those meant to protect us?
Where is the honour of the uniform and the oath you took?

Shooting, hurting, bleeding, killing
Unchecked police brutality
Tear gas, lathi charging, stone pelting
Fucking Delhi Police!
Violence, disorder, when the police
Under the rule of the BJP
Hindu terrorists hand in glove
No police accountability

When the police is pelting stones who will stop the riots
When Hindu terrorists burn Muslim homes, they don’t bat an eyelid
Gujarat model, police watch while rioters run free
When no one’s watching the police try to break the CCTV

We’ve seen the videos, we’ve seen through the lies
All our news sources are fucking verified.
Not the saffron manufacturing fake news
Every day trying to portray the victims are Hindus

Let’s be clear the agenda from day 1
Dissent will not be tolerated, beware

It’s such a shame all the lives that are lost
But you created a hatred, a fire you cannot stop
People injured, people died, policemen too
All on the behest of powerful men, who don’t give two hoots.

The job of the police is to protect the people
Not be slaves to political goons
No one should have to die for this
While politicians sit safe in their cocoons.

Even during the riots only the innocent suffer
Let the politicians come enact the hate they monger
Let’s give them weapons and send them to war
Why should anyone lose their lives, when the politicians have no balls

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‘Protest 100’s mission is two-fold: dispelling the myth that heavy metal is a brainless, socially unaware music genre, and raising awareness of the issues facing our country in the Nov. 3, 2020 election. The path won’t be exclusively metal—some punk and rap and other stuff will be in here too, including the classics—and is not a ranking. All songs are songs I’ve heard while putting this list together, ordered in a manner designed to entertain and educate.