Were Metallica hippies? So many of their songs are anti-war, anti-death penalty, anti-nuclear weapons, etc? A lot of them seem to have an environmentalist angle to them, like nuclear weapons are bad because they're bad for the planet.
>Blackened is the end >Winter it will send >Throwing all you see >Into obscurity >Death of mother earth >Never a rebirth
>blow the universe >into nothingness >nuclear warfare >will lay us to rest
>soldier boy, made of clay >now an empty shell >twenty-one, only son >but he served us well
>Fed through the tube that sticks in me >Just like a wartime novelty >Tied to machines that make me be >Cut this life off from me
>For a hill, men would kill? >Why? They do not know.
>Guilty as charged, but damn it ain't right >there's someone else controlling me >death in the air >strapped in the electric chair >this can't be happening to me >who made you god to say >"I'll take your life from you"?
You don't have to be a hippie to be against killing for profit.
Nicholas Bennett
>anti-war, anti-death penalty, anti-nuclear weapons Pretty low bar for "hippie." Other than the death penalty those aren't very controversial opinions.
Carter Jones
Metallica had some pretty right-wing lyrics. I'm pretty sure war and nuclear weapons are just universally considered bad. "don't blow up the planet" isn't exactly a hot take.
Bentley Lee
Contrary to popular belief metal is a hippie genre at its core.
Nathan Miller
A. No B. In the early days, they talked a lot about the horrors of war and appeared to be anti-war, but really they were just following the trend metal has always done, talk about horrors C. This is provable because by the Black Album James wrote "Don't Tread On Me" basically just to be like "WOAH WOAH WOAH, I'M NO HIPPIE DON'T GET IT TWISTED NAH" This is also when he began to take great care to create his pseudo-redneck persona
This. Fucking Black Sabbath sang anti-war "give peace a chance" hippie shit all the time.
Angel Allen
>This is also when he began to take great care to create his pseudo-redneck persona Never really thought about it, but I'm sure it's no coincidence that this coincides with the rise of actual redneck metal bands like Pantera, Acid Bath and Crowbar.
Ethan Taylor
Metal was always left-leaning and against oppressors of all kinds up until some guys in Norway got the message confused. Now everybody think that's what metal philosophy is.
Charles Turner
You can be against war and nuclear weapons and still be right-wing.
Ryder Phillips
They weren't hippies, Metal it was just about anti establishment. Anything your parents liked, you hated, anything that was good was bad. "Love and peace" was with "fuck this world it sucks, its full of injustice, violence and death" It's why common themes in metal are death, suicide, mental illness, war, corruption etc. It was the vicarious life that lower middle class white kids related to.
But like most bands, once the money rolled in, they got less hungry, less edgy.
Samuel Wilson
Well, some of his biggest influences in music were Ted Nugent and Skynyrd.
Hunter Fisher
Nigga he spent the 80s drinking beer in all-denim outfits with a handle-bar mustache, he was always a redneck.
Hudson Foster
True, he always looked like my cousin who always seemed to have a bass boat for sale.
Luis Wright
I'm not saying he wasn't, all I'm saying is that he started to make a point of it and made it known around the Black Album, before that he seemed more interested in trying to present some pseudo "punk" persona, cause that was the Cali thrasher thing to do.
Joseph Reyes
But what makes Metallica right wing? At all? Besides James doing his redneck shit. Do you really think Lars, Kirk, Cliff, or Jason weren't lefties? id you know Johnny Got His Gun, written by Dalton Trumbo, was a huge fucking socialist and was on the McCarthy era blacklist? Metal used to be super left because they were fighting capitalism and war as oppressors.
Lucas Wood
I don't think any of them cared that much to be honest....people weren't pussies back then and just accepted that people around them have different views. Which is why a non white and a guy wearing a Nazi shirt can be in the same band here But yes, James is obviously the more right leaning guy in the band, this has been hinted at a lot, Lars is a very liberal European, Kirk is a stoner hippie who is into Eastern religion.
Brandon Thompson
>Metal used to be super left because they were fighting capitalism and war as oppressors. >being against capitalism and imperialism is inehrently leftist
>capitalism having anything to do with war and government THAT'S A YIKE
Asher Morales
Black Sabbath were Christians who approved of the US's fight against communism and criticized government spending (specifically the Apollo program) as a misuse of resources.
Jack Diaz
*Contrary to popular belief metal is a nerd loser genre at its core.
Nolan Hall
And? Basic bitches have been trying to be us for the last two decades >normies wear metal shirts >normies dye their hair >normies try to be like SEE LADY GAGA, JUSTIN BEIBER, THEY ARE EDGY LIKE METAL TOO
You're jealous fag. Popfags are so seething they don't have what the metal, alternative, punk, just rock community in general has.
