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Soundtrack for these dark times?
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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.
Solid rec. System is the band for this. Prison System and Deer Dance have been up there with my favorite songs since the first time I heard the album.
All research and successful drug policies show that treatment should be increased, and law enforcement decreased, while abolishing mandatory minimum sentences.
BYOB is off Mezmerize, though.
I've been playing Mr. Jack from Steal This Album! on repeat
Fuck you, Pig!
I'm partial to Highway Song, as far as Steal This Album goes.
System of a Down is GOAT
Panopticon's album Kentucky. Still hoping to see the level of solidarity and mutual aid those Appalachian coal miners embodied.
Seconding Kentucky.
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?
Fucking live Grandson. I tried to find more artists like him. Lmk of any
Check out Ren.
He's got many many good songs but I love Money Game pt 2.
Strange times we're living in, panic and hysteria
Poor man learn the rich man don't care for ya
Narcissist mindsets spread like malaria
Sit back and watch the show, America!
Nine Inch Nails - Year Zero. Christofascism and the apocalypse. Still relevant almost 20 years later.
Check out the !music@slrpnk.net community, it's usually pretty political, and has some diverse genres.
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.
I was there with you until "Cars". That's my problem, though.
Incubus - A Crow Left of the Murder
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)
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.
I'm cruising through Rise Against constantly, because a ton of their songs resonate with my anger
Chumbawamba
HEALTH
Ordinary loss https://youtu.be/-tvl8sDu9vo
Demi-gods https://youtu.be/dbSPb0bFmms
Free to die https://youtu.be/F5nCQW53l-E
Additional important listening
Trash Decade https://youtu.be/7Og1orQecxQ
Don't Kill Yourself https://youtu.be/jjsv1JACJCY
Start a playlist with Voidnet. You'll feel like you're in a terminator movie fast.
Nothingface is good angry music.
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.
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.
Wheres the revolution by depeche mode is pretty good :)
Glow by aviators
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.
Deafheaven - Revelator, Black Brick
Godspeed You! Black Emperor — F#A#∞
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
Refused
Cro-Mags
Napalm Death
Power Trip
Iron Reagan
Exodus
Non-metal suggestions:
Thievery Corporation
Skinny Puppy
Massive Attack
Atari Teenage Riot has been my go to. Digital Punk anarchist.
I dunno, my daily mix is my daily mix.
From King Crimson's first album:
- 21st Century Schizoid Man
- Epitaph
- The Court of the Crimson King
Bluegrass and independent country artists are getting really good with their messaging lately.
Check out Jesse Welles. His song RED hooker me hard and now I’m a big fan.
this post was submitted on 25 Jan 2026
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