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It's weird seeing someone understand that the band's early lyrics were hyperbolic and cathartic, but not realize that the band's newer songs are the exact same way. Obviously, the band doesn't want to kill all humans. Be real.

10/10 album, still listen to it amongst my gojira, messugah, and devin townsend

Opening your video with Same Solution? You got my forever sub!!! Kickass content. Stupid underrated band that belongs at the top

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Dunno dude, I feel like you are thinking this way too hard. I've personally never cared much about the environment, until I listened to death atlas. It was the first album of theirs that I actually listened with thought and it made me think that maybe we should do something, and I'm not talking about a genocide. Also, didn't "bring back the plague" release before the pandemic?

I never got into these guys. Its just too political and i do hate politics. I like to be taken away with music to places that politics doesn't exist personally....

Sweet baby LP is originally from Brooklyn 😊 (not Long island).......

So how are those leftist politics working out for you? Turns out they were the more of the two evils. Turns out they are the war mongers. Not saying the right is any better but the only ones trying to stop this massive decline in society is some republicans and they are demonized by the democrat media. The left are trying to brainwash children. They are trying to destroy everything that makes america such a good place. Your political beliefs and voting have lead us to a dementia patient in the white house. Congrats. You really played yourself.

He was singing clean vocals when you said he wasn't.

"But hes white so its not a crime" dude seriously? You have a warped view of reality.

An Audio Guide to Everyday Atrocity is still to this day one of my favourite albums. Every song rules.

Violence and skeletons are my absolute 2 favorite CDs.... just Perfect

There are good bands that were never really nu metal but often get mistaken for it (soad, ratm, helmet) good bands that are legitimately part new metal but do something different too like punk or thrash elements (snot, deftones, soulfly). But there are very few good pure nu metal bands. I'm going to throw up sevendust.

This band was SO talented and underrated. Amazing video, my guy.

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Just want to state for the record, I whiffed the analysis of what The Lightning was about pretty hard. Not to say it's NOT about what I say in the video, lyrics are always open to interpretation and mean many things, but I failed to recognize the meaning that is referenced in the title of the song, What Should We Do With Your Body? This element of the lyrics is taken from the perspective of the owning class, looking at the working class and salivating at the potential to exploit and use up their lives ("all of their beautiful bodies") to produce value. Lines like "Oh the views you'll see over cross danglings" and "The willing whore is the hand of the Lord" are propagandistic efforts to convince people to celebrate this exploitation, and the recitation of "God is everywhere" instills an acceptance in this being the natural order of things (echoed later in the album when The Blizzard turjs into "He's got the whole world in his hands"). If you'd like the hear a Congleton song that much more directly talks about how unlikely it can be to find companionship and human connection, check out Put Your Teeth In by The Nighty Nite (a personal favorite of his discography)

I'll never forget the first time I saw/heard of Nothingface. 1998 in Raleigh NC opening for Soulfly, and another unheard of band at the time..... System of a down. I knew almost instantly that Nothingface was going to be huge. They were amazing live, but huge never came. Instead they have the much better position of being loved by the few that really appreciated what they were doing. Time has only made their work much more appreciated to us few that knew who they were!

I loved all those bands

"At the dawn of agriculture 10,000 years ago, humans, livestock, and pets constituted about 0.1% of terrestrial vertebrate biomass. Today, this figure is 98%." (Dan Dennet, 2024 see here: czcams.com/video/DFQhTOpHxNA/video.html) If it can be eaten or used for something, destroy it so something consumable can replace it 🤔?

Nothingface was and still is amazing, and I love the leftist perspective.

Thank you for this video. There’s a certain mystique surrounding this band for me. They weren’t the first band I listened to or anything but they were that one band I could never get enough of. I think the saddest band art of all is that their sound just got better every album. Mostly kidding with this statement but shame on you for putting down I am him. That’s one of my all time favorites. There is no bad song on Skeletons. It’ll go down in my book at the best metal album of all time

Amazing band.

it's an interesting perspective on their lyrics! I always considered Cattle Decapitation as an outlet for the rage you feel when dealing with humans: you see them destroy the planet for greed, so you want them to die. It's as simple as it is cathargic. They became my go-to band after watching the news for that reason. Just like a depressive suicidal black metal band doesn't really condone suicide, they just use that topic to release those thoughts. It's just frustration and rage. I don't think their aim is to tell people what to do or to solve a problem, they are PISSED because we are most likely doomed.

What movie does the unopened email to god sample?

It’s one of the great disappointments in Metal that two amazing bands like Mudvayne and Nothingface produced something so gingoistic and vapid as Hellyeah. Great video btw, learned a lot!

I actually really like the composition of "I am Him". His spoken word with the sparce instrumental really lends to the emotion in the vocals!

You gonna shityourself when you find out that bring back the plague was released before the pandemic😂

why didnt you mentioned their last album? their self titled album that came out in 2010?

Dumb.

The 90's early 2000's was an amazing time for rock/metal music.

NF will forever be my favorite band. I had been a fan since Pacifier. RIP Matt. I got to talk to all of them after a small show in TN right before it all fell apart for them. All awrsome guys

Limp Bizkit is dog shit. So many better nu metal bands at that time. Nothingface was so amazing. Violence is in my top 5 favorite albums. That first singer sounded like Axel Rose.

Dude, this was a sick video that has little views? Great job

After watching this video, all I can say is that Travis's lyrics are NOT meant to be taken as seriously or literally as you've taken them, and that if you know who, specifically, With All Disrespect was written about, that person deserved every bit of the ire in those lyrics.

I love Nothingface, I even got to see them open for Pantera on their last tour before breaking up back in 2001. That said, I'm glad to see another big Nothingface fan publicly say that Pacifier is not really that good or indicative of the band's trademark sound. In fact, I'm pretty tired of hearing "fans" say that was their best album and 'after that one, they sold out, man'. /eyeroll

I remember my pal Joseph gave me a promotional disc with "Bleeder" on it. I ended up buying the censored version of "Violence" and I know every single edit on that album. Love it. The drums, the heaviness, it's like a monstrous heartbeat.

Yeah...... Nah. Sorry, I think this video takes Cattle Decap fans to be fools and is a little patronising. Perhaps useful to the very young getting into this metal style, but most people understand that this is art, theatre and all its inherent contradictons. You can debate whether or not it's good or bad art, but to basicly call Cattle Decap eco-fascists and putting them on the same bus as real eco-fascists who commited racialy motivated massacres is about as ridiculous as Christian parents in the early 80s who dragged Judas Priest through the courts. This video made one fair point though - that Cattle Decaps messages should be taken as warnings about the future. That's exactly how the fans take them, including warnings about bigotry and false narratives around over-population etc. The fans are a bit smarter that what's premised here. We get it and don't need a lecture.

Man, this was some far stretching bs... so what now we're claiming anyone who hates humanity for its blatant transgressions on not only themselves but the natural order as a whole is a fascist? Get out of here with that shit. Also, the part about phil is particularly telling of what you're trying to push. You said it yourself he pulled that stunt after their collab... are we accusing robb flynn of it too since he was on stage? Should anyone who's ever pissed next to the man at a urinal publically apologize? Fuck no... the guy did what he did and thats on him have they dobe shit with him since? No, they haven't... This conspiritoral nonesense is ridiculous. travis has stated how much he despises humans as a whole, not in specific regions, not any one group over the other, no all of it. Insinuating that he is some closet facist is laughable and beyond nonsense.

Fascists and anti-fascists are nowadays one and the same. Both spread hatred and lies, just like the creator of this video.

Respectfully, I think his lyrics are a (certainly ignorant and irresponsible) way of saying "fuck the world" out of frustration with very real problems. I'm not denying or downplaying the harm that could come from someone taking everything literally and taking it to heart but truly outside of the unsavory but i believe intentionally hyperbolic lyrics, this guy comes across as if his heart is in the right place.

Loved what you talked about overpopulation and genocide, also cattle decapitation is my favorite band at the moment.

To listen to a death metal band and believe they're actually spouting ideology through lyricism and to consider it anything other than a means to elicit an emotional response is wild to me. You read way too far into this and you didn't take the music for what it was worth. That's lame. However, you did get whatever you wanted out of it, and that's what music is all about, so I guess mission accomplished there.

it got me through some potential discomfort of religious imposings when i got my own apartment. binaural beats screwed me. my childhood was religiously screwed, it would have been a shame.

This album was on constant rotation during high school

This review sucks. While Travis Ryan's lyrics are pretty serious, you take them entirely too seriously. It's just meant to be death metal with thought provoking ideas, not some kind of mission statement.

What a political dummy this guy is.

Those 5 albums were literally the corner stones of my 5th-8th grade musical interest lol

Keith’s Ex organizes a bunch of Q style stuff now at conventions, easy money to be made with that crowd..

Their music sounds like the noise in my head when i can't sleep at night. Its comforting in a strange way

Yeah, listen. I don’t much care for some of the less than subtle lyrics from Cattle Decap. But insisting they’re eco-fascists and asserting that all of Travis’s lyrics are to be taken seriously and never open for interpretation or artistic exaggeration is dishonest and makes me think this whole video is done in bad faith.