Never be, never see: Metallica’s cowardly silence on Palestine
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Metallica’s frontman calling for ‘no politics’ in music contradicts the band’s own history of anti-war songs and activism, argues Shan Karemani.

As Antonio Gramsci argued, ruling groups maintain power partly by making their ideas seem like common sense. This helps explain the political significance of Metallica’s call for disengagement at a time when Israel’s genocide in Palestine demands urgent international attention. Hetfield’s vague agenda of “love, energy and heavy music” ultimately amounts to a refusal to stand for anything meaningful. And that refusal is itself deeply political.

    • RustySharp@programming.devEnglish
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      8 days ago

      Vampire was an instant earworm for me when it came out, because I’m a sucker for the Creep chord progression. That, and her energy in the song.

      So it makes the occasional appearance in my otherwise mostly metal-dominated song rotation.

      Ironically(?) her cover of Creep a while ago was the first time I heard her voice. It did make me go, “Huh. Not bad at all.”