Generation Doom
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Nu Metal Activism

Album reviewed by:
SongBlog

I remember 2002, when nu metal was in its peak of borrowing elements from various genres. In panoply of everything, the song T.R.I.C. happened and it ruled the universe with its sickening, powerful and demonic vocals. I remember checking out which band is it, which singer sings it and I become dazzled when I find out that it is a woman.

In  the period of ten years, the leader of the band Otep, Shamaya, switched more than 30 collaborators and released several albums. In 2013, after dropping out Hydra, she promised that she is done with music. Still, Generation Doom came out and proved to be the best record of their career. But, it is not as it is brilliant.

Otep did not progress. They have not matured. If you have problem with mediocre rap-metal and cheesy riffs, do not even give this album a shot. There are some maverick sections, brutal in its strength. Few melodies stand as evidence of potential brilliance. Overall, Generation  Doom offers the most when you listen to it through the prism of lyrical activism.

Zero is all about how they don’t give a fuck. I actually counted that the song has 39 ‘fuck’ and 1 ‘fucked’. It reminded me of Fred Durst who rapped: If I say fuck two more times, that’s forty six fucks in this fucked up rhyme. Lords Of War conflates with world police

More wars on foreign shores

More names for us to mourn

To misguide the misinformed

To ignore the sick and poor

Thus we praise the lords of war

On our knees and beg for more

On the other hand, God is a Gun describes conflict with religion:

Where were you when the war began

Where were you when the babies died

Where were you when the mother cried

Where were you when they changed your name

Where were you when in the darkest night

Where were you when they pulled the trigger

You were the gun in the hand of killers

You’re just a myth

You don’t exist

Show yourself

My personal favorite is Equal Right, Equal Lefts, the song in which the lead singer comes out of the closet and fights for LGBT right. It is saturated with peculiar rhymes.

Last but not least let me finish the story how I met a your girl

Then she found religion in every position screaming Oh God and singing in hymnals

Gay for a day

That’s what she claimed, but that’s what these chicks always say

She’s calling my home, texting my phone, sending me snaps, and begging for more

So say what you say, do what you do, but I’ll always get more pussy than you

            The album sounds like a tribute to Linkin Park, Paparoach and Slipknot. You decide whether that’s a good thing.

 

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