FAWM 2022 track 11.

This started from listening to the track released to promote the Food Fighters new movie and some weird gatekeeper backlash online about how extreme metal doesn't need help from Dave Grohl, which reminded me of the Probot record he did various metal singers. So I thought I'd do something that was aiming at death metal of sorts and the notional working title was 'Probiotic' as a smashing of Probot and Biotech vs Godzilla.

Anyways, this morning I hear that Russia invaded Ukraine and the notion of wargames came into my head, reminding me of the 80s film and that kinda became the inspiration for the lyrics, which are kin of a rant about being a millenial and sold a shiny future which has been snatched back from us rather than my original draft which was about trying to make a probiotic shot sound all metal and stuff (which was fun though, might come back to that.)

Of course, I'm totally not comfortable with screaming as a singer so I went with spoken word over the chunky guitars and I kinda dig the effect.

Lyrics

Growing up in the 80s was a trip,
Most of our food was so processed it glowed,
We’d dance to 99 Luftballoons and read 2000 AD,
We’d watch Mad Max and terminator 2, hear news stories about Chernobyl or see our mum;’s gay pals die of AIDS. 
The idea that we’d all go up in a nuclear fireball just seemed, inevitable like background radiation

Then the wall fell and they said it was the end of history and it would be nothing but peace and growth and prosperity forever.
Well, for who, exactly?

Then the towers fell and the recession hit and the pushback against the slow advance of minority rights came on full force, and we realised that despite going to college as we’d been told, we weren’t as well off as our parents had been at our age and that the brightness in the future was the fires of fascist book burnings, a climate apocalypse and or, the nuclear war wer thought we’d escaped.

Fuck this future, fuck these asset stripping, power crazed clowns, playing wargames in the middle of several global emergencies,,
Fuck this millenarian culture war, witch craze, death cult, baying for blood cause other people have the cheek to be a bit different.
Fuck these pyramid scheme cashing out techbros, busting unions and trying to sell us digital monkeys as the world literally burns.
Fuck this future, we deserved better, our kids deserve better, 
It’s better to light a flamethrower than curse the darkness.

The End of History

chriscrowing