The song "Virtue Machine" is a fierce, genre-blending indictment of the Liberal/NDP bureaucratic and ideological systems that masquerade as moral progress while systematically oppressing individuals through endless rules, empty promises, and self-serving control. It portrays a soulless apparatus—symbolized by clipboards, forms, screens, and "paper saints"—that grinds down human spirit under the guise of virtue, reform, and justice, enriching its operators on failure and spin. Through aggressive rap verses, soaring blues-metal choruses, and psychedelic breakdowns, the lyrics expose the hypocrisy of both political sides ("no left, no right, just noise between") and call for rebellion: burning the code, breaking the gears, and reclaiming authentic freedom from a polished cage that suffocates the human pulse.

Virtue Machine

Winnipeg composer, retired from the farm, still chasing meaning in melody. My work lives where TV cues meet YouTube soundscapes, with a few albums in between. Built in Mixcraft Pro, fuelled by late-night coffee, stubborn curiosity, and a Stoic’s sense of timing. Also writing on politics, history, and philosophy, because sound isn’t my only instrument.

Some ratchet ass white dude born and raised from Hammond Indiana.

Virtue Machine

Wayne Mathison