Slaughterhouse 1 goes so hard, one of my favorite gym tunes. Maybe it's because of that or just because the rest of this album fucks so much, but I found this track to be a bit of let down by comparison.

[–] Des@hexbear.net 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

i initially felt the same way. but it grew on me. try this: make a playlist and play them back to back. 1 then 2.

i dived into the lyrics of 2 and realized it's basically about bryan garris of knocked loose wanting to distance himself from politics as his band got big but then coming back around to class politics (and class warfare). chris motionless's parts feel like they are there to keep him radicalized, with bryan finally calling for an almost Maoist style uprising in the end.

one thing i always found amazing about slaughterhouse 1 is how it would fuck so hard as a song for a music video made using Gazan resistance footage. i wish i could do video editing because i want to do this so bad. starting with "break down the wall" showing footage of Gazans bulldozing and destroying the concentration camp walls. lots of hamas-red-triangle for the breakdowns. it's actually wild he wrote it before Oct 7 because it almost feels like an anthem for the resistance

[–] erik@hexbear.net 2 points 1 year ago

I agree the lyrics rule, but I just don't get that stank face, ready to run into a brick wall feeling I get from a lot of the other tracks and the first Slaughterhouse. Maybe that's not what they were going for and it's a me problem.