I used to listen to the band Muse a lot in high school. I was one of those quiet but rebellious types, so their music really resonated with me. As I got older and started my corporate career, the political messaging in their music, especially in their most recent album, felt a little too strong.
I am ready for it now.
If you’re feeling rage right now, like many of us are, I highly recommend listening to the entire “Will of the People” album by Muse. Really listen to it. Put on your headphones like we used to back in the day and take it all in.
Music has become background noise for me in my 30s, but I think it’s time to bring it back into focus.
Got any songs or albums you’d recommend with similar themes?
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
Refused
Cro-Mags
Napalm Death
Power Trip
Iron Reagan
Exodus
Non-metal suggestions:
Thievery Corporation
Skinny Puppy
Massive Attack
Check out the !music@slrpnk.net community, it’s usually pretty political, and has some diverse genres.
To the Wilder by Woodkid.
Nobody said System? Maybe I missed it. Toxicity the album. Individual tracks: Prison Song, Deer Dance, BYOB.
System of a Down is GOAT
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)
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.
Start a playlist with Voidnet. You’ll feel like you’re in a terminator movie fast.
Panopticon’s album Kentucky. Still hoping to see the level of solidarity and mutual aid those Appalachian coal miners embodied.
Seconding Kentucky.
Rage against the machine, all of them, can’t miss
I’m cruising through Rise Against constantly, because a ton of their songs resonate with my anger
Rise Against is always my “The world is fucked I’m so mad” band. All their stuff is great, but Re-education(Through Labor), The First Drop, and Mourning in America are so incredible and so relevant.
