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We Don't Need Them

by Appalachian Terror Unit

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Mungo
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Mungo An absolute monolithic album with strong thoughts to match, an album that everyone needs right now.

We don't need them. Favorite track: It's Time to Cut the Shit!.
Francisco Hernandez
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Francisco Hernandez This was definitely a trip! Went hard and had a LOT to say... I love lyrical songs but it was kinda hard to keep up and for some reason the lyrics cut off for me while I’m trying to read and listen. Maybe it’s because I’m on a phone, I’m not sure exactly, either way I really enjoyed what I heard! Favorite track: Officer Down / Warehousing Prisoners.
lorenzo42
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lorenzo42 Brutally.Passionate.Sound.Wall.
Beautiful Stuff ! Favorite track: Casualties of a Rape Culture.
Old Leech
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Old Leech Appalachian Terror Unit are one of THEE best active crust bands, IMO. Reminiscent of Nausea. And they are deadly serious about their politics (like good crust bands oughta' be).
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Banners Over the Wasteland Awaken to this world And it's harsh reality Innocent people suffer The powerful do as they please Parasitic in nature humans devour their host Exploiting all in sight today we thrive but we will be tomorrows ghost Leaving bombed out civilizations cities where nothing's left But a nations banner flowing over barren lands that carry the stench of death Hate bigotry and greed War after bloody war Starvation violence and disease Slaughter without remorse No escape from the nightmares in a bleak world of misery The unrelenting shroud of greed endlessly infects humanity Leaders lust for power people trampled under their heels. Slaves to build their empires soldiers for the battlefields They Control the media twisting your mind Images of patriotism and national pride Poison tongues to sow political lies The misinformation divides Children are born as slaves Innocents in blood stained graves People left to fend for themselves Without compassion from anywhere else Outstretched hands reach for sun Cursing a god that will never come Happy soldiers on TV leave us blind to the face of war Nothing but violence and hate now and forever more How many of these conquest how many games of death Until we unleash the nukes and the world can start over fresh So much destruction will we ever know peace Will we stand on our feet or live on our knees Existing in silence the cycle repeats Until we raise our voice and say enough is enough is enough is enough
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Blind Acceptance “We run everything. We control the police. We control the military. Every politician is our puppet. War is not just big business it's our business. We profit from military spending and defense manufacturing. We collect the spoils of war, its up to you to fill the graves. Our industries may wreak havoc on the environment but it fills our coffers. So it's a necessity. Why should we care if some of the lesser folk suffer?” “Every single person is being monitored. We see to that. There are five hundred thousand Surveillance cameras in London alone. We are always watching. We own the Internet. Every phone call, every text, every online post is recorded in our database. We know everything about you from your spending habits to the places you hang out. We can track you through your bankcard, your cell phone, your motor vehicle. You leave a trail of data with each step.” “We are the ones that run your schools. You learn what we allow to learn. It would not suit us any other way. We own the media. We spread misinformation to keep the people confused and separated. Most of you care more about your favorite television show or sports team then what’s going on in the real world. For those that try to see between the lines we have a pill for that, for those that speak out, a prison. Be it through ignorance, fear, or apathy we control each and every one of you and we have you right where want you.” One life to live under corporate control To work and consume to fill in a role Too complacent to notice you’re living a lie Identity created by the products that you buy Idolizing sports heroes and models in magazines Dream about being famous on a television screen Don't realize we are all victims of the class war Taught to elevate the rich and hate each other for being poor Fuck all their money to hell with the lies It shouldn’t be business as usual we suffer and die “From arms manufacturers to factory farms, pharmaceutical companies to car and heavy machinery makers, political lobbyists and energy giants. Monsanto provides 90% of the worlds GMO crops, whose health effects remain unknown, while Tepco in Japan dodges responsibility for nuclear material spilled into the Pacific Ocean. They are like Chevron who dumps billions of gallons of toxic chemicals into the Ecuadorian Amazon while refusing to clean up or compensate for what they have done. Caterpillar creates machines that rip apart the face of the earth and devour it from the inside out while the people at Koch industries fund climate change denial and dominate the American political landscape.” We live in a consumer culture that can't sustain itself Yet we race to purchase every product on the shelf Generating trash without a second thought Landfills grow in size with everything that's bought Vivisectors force dogs to smoke cigarettes Thousands die in Wal-mart sweatshops in Bangladesh Impoverished nations see a rise in infanticide Bee die off directly linked to Monsanto's pesticides
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Officer Down- Agents of the state paid to reinforce the status quo Armed with a gun and a badge we know the real foe Murder goes unquestioned at the hands of the pigs Protected by our own blind obedience and the comfort that it brings Fuck your authority and the power you misuse May you forever be haunted by those you've abused The father you shot the protesters you maced The kids you abused the women you’ve raped Too much power given leads to countless stories of abuse It wasn’t long ago American police tactics included a noose Try to run and end up with a state issued bullet in the back Try to resist in the streets and batons give your head a crack Fucking mob mentality from the flock's of pig sheep That continue to bring violence to once peaceful streets It will take more then your batons to keep us in line We will make it rain bricks on the two-legged swine Don’t we pay their fucking salary don’t we deserve more respect Something we will never get because it’s the rich they protect Privilege above the rest will always lead their hearts to corruption Your day will come you will feel the full fucking wrath of our liberation No more will you beat and unjustly arrest Profile and discriminate those you've sworn to protect Your very existence feeds my unrest You might just end up with two holes in your chest Warehousing Prisoners- Squash youth rebellion by declaration of war on decent A war on drugs really means the militarization of the police state Fueled by racialized moral panic at the pleasure of the conservative right Mass incarceration for profit, dehumanization for control over the fight Police harassment becomes basic procedure The puppets of powerful ideologues with a clear-cut agenda Profit margins blossom with the construction of every prison tower Nonviolent offenders, prisoners of war, strip searched and showered Stop and frisk searches and street interrogations Operating on some higher moral authority that welcomes racism But they call it police discretion, a hunch or plain intuition A refusal to look at structural inequality keeping us on our knees “Warehousing prisoners an adapted form of slavery. Equal rights framed as a threat to white men’s job security. Contrived by that good old boy southern strategy, “law and order” code for legal murder of community. Mandatory minimums with sentencing disparity in federal prisons, while hot shit stockbroker’s blow lines in beachfront condominiums” Divide the underclass and pit them against each other Ongoing strangulation of community organization In an era of desperation and mass unemployment The prison population stagers at the lobbyist’s enjoyment Corporate news media crafts visual scare tactics to be sure people fall in line The perfect centerpiece for any power grabbing politicians campaign prime time The United States is home to the largest prison population in the world Entire neighborhoods under siege as the prison industrial complex feeds
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The weight of normalized sexism. Pretend it doesn’t exist. But rape is still used as a tactic of war, and you still control my sister with your fist. Breast feeding is an obscene act to be hidden while rape jokes are supposedly funny and if they are not your uptight. Validate us, “Hey you’re a pretty good whatever for a girl”. Trivialize our story and even condone violence inflicted. Sick of hearing girls be told how to behave to not get raped. Victim blaming an automatic response like its every girls fate. You’re a slut if you fuck and a prude if you don’t. Instilled with a sense of inferiority to remove prospect of pleasure. “Bitch” code for practicing any necessary self-assertion. No I don’t want preform for every man I pass on the street. Can’t have a day without hearing “Hey baby give me a smile”. Made to feel guilty for being harassed like I did something wrong. So fucking sick of being talked over and ignored. Women locked away in dungeons for fighting back. Striped from the natural world severing the cord. Daughters kidnapped and married off to please old men their toys replaced with tears and blood. An expectation of behavior little girls measuring self-worth on plastic and airbrushed idols. Sick of being made to feel inferior. Sick of having to fight to have a voice. Gender-set limitations diminishing our human worth. Conveniently substitute the word sex for rape something 1 in every 5 women face. You were drinking, so what did you expect Maybe not to be treated like a fucking object Instead of support, a total interrogation Must have knowingly emitted some flirtation What did you do to cause your own assault? Obviously it was your fashion senses fault Questions about YOUR choices, not the rapist Making pathetic excuses for an act so heinous Doubt because she didn’t report it to the cops But it’s not like they do anti-rape special ops Most often just humiliate or mistreat the victim Another deep root of our patriarchal system Blaming the sufferer nearly as violent as the assault itself Expected to put those feelings away on the back shelf Have your own friends doubt you when you need them most Not to be dragged and tied to the verbal whipping post Or how about being just totally ignored People figure you made it up, you must be bored He wouldn’t do that, or just hey fuck it I like his band Hey maybe no one will notice, after all they have a tour planned Use a tool like social media to gain some power and voice Then threatened with more violence because you made a choice Trying to break free from the chains of silence and blame Only to be met with more frustration and shame Sisters of the world we will never be quiet, We have a voice we will not drown in the silence We have to stick together we have to fight back No more violence no more attacks
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Its time to cut the shit. Restricted by our own insecurities Life of struggle against one another When we really should be encouraging abilities Lines of division only serve the oppressor We in-fight when we should be fighting to unite So much wasted breath so much wasted energy When we dig in and work together Revolutionary change is within our reach Running in circles look for a way out trapped in a web of insecurity and doubts Anger misled words come out wrong to often left feeling frustrated and misunderstood Thoughts kept inside that should have been shared let down by friends that should have been there Silence is death I wont drown in the crowd I must be myself I wont give up the fight
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We Don’t Need Them Catastrophic man-made disasters caused by industry Species wiped extinct trampled under the boot of humanity Colossal towers dominate the landscape that once was green Nuclear radiation destroying life in oceans once pristine Acid rain showers form above our heads While toxic factory runoff leaches into watersheds We continue to over populate in numbers we can't sustain Leaving a barren wasteland for future generations to claim Reduce mountains to rubble strip-mine the earth Frack all the land and drill through the dirt Poison the lakes and poison the streams Poison the rivers that washout to sea These aren't just lyrics with bleak imagery But problems we've created by taking more then we need Yet we continue to swindle from resources overspent It's hard to view mankind without utter contempt How the fuck did we let it get to this state Where we knowingly jeopardize the ecosystem for shit we create Exploiting the natural balance for lives of comfort and convenience So much for being sophisticated animals with a higher intelligence Destroying the symbiotic relationships life forms have always shared Will open the doors of the future to a dystopian nightmare We are not the only species that have the right to exist The more humans prosper the more we forfeit Grass between our toes warm sun on our skin Clean water to drink and air to breathe in Trees that reach to the sky healthy soil to sow Sunshine and rain give crops life to grow The song of the birds travels free in the wind Howls of the wolf signal the days end We've taken for granted the circle of life If we can't all coexist then it all dies Consumed by greed and blinded by wealth Arrogant fuckers only think for themselves Trample over anything that gets in the way Leaving behind a scorched earth in decay Scientific advancements used to commit genocide When the bombs fall there will be nowhere to hide Middle eastern children murdered by drones First world lines up to by the newest mobile phone Politicians owned by relentless industry Of money hungry bastards who only care for productivity Pageant elections see who’s more apt for the camera As winds of sorrow circulate to ring in a new era Proof of climate change that industry denies Green washing campaigns to help spread their lies When every politician can be bought for a fee Laws will always serve the corporate elite “We can build our own communities, free of abusive police officers that only serve their own interest and those of the rich. We can save ourselves; we don't need religious con artists to offer salvation in an afterlife that doesn't exist, while at the same time imposing hate filled sexist homophobic hysteria. We can grow our own food free of artificial ingredients and pesticides. No more politicians speaking for us while ignoring what we have to say, selling us out at every turn. No more coal, oil, and gas corporations destroying the ecosystems that we hold dear. No more factory farms slaughtering millions of animals for endless consumption. No more divisions! We will unify! We have the strength in ourselves and each other. Together we can change the course. We can build a better world on the ashes of this horrendous abomination called society.” Illusion of freedom to blind a nation Total control by religious indoctrination Belief in a god is a game for a fool Rivers of blood shed over religious rule In mad conquest for pedestals of power Little hope left as we approach the final hour The sixth extinction just over the horizon Rising tides the earth’s final siren Forced onto a perpetual course Of something that should never be An endless secession of workers Desperately yearning to break free Yet we all still obediently follow And willingly drink from their cup of lies So ready to compromise our beliefs For the false promise of a better life Prosper or suffer work just to eat Evictions foreclosures life on the streets Paycheck to paycheck trying to get by Piss on their wealth I just want to survive We are the ones that hold the true power It's always been within our grasp We could storm their castles and boardrooms The bosses would tremble underneath of our wrath But we are too easily divided Stabbing each other in the back Poor and hungry we will never know unity As long as we are forced to survive off the scrapes Once strong and youthful Out bodies give way to the years of misuse The scars of labor are bared by the poor On broken backs that have suffered through years of abuse Yet we still look into the mirror And watch ourselves die a little each day Questioning all of the lost time How much of our lives did we trade for a wage After years of exertion have taken their toll Our bodies grow feeble and our minds grow old We will get nothing back for the life that they stole But a kick in the ass as we're thrown out in the cold After all that they have taken All the lost years we will never have back After all we have sacrificed We are thrown aside to fall through the cracks Yet we still swear allegiance And continue to do what we have always been told Bowing our heads and bending our knee To a system that represents everything that's wrong

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released August 7, 2014

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