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FREEDOM IS A STATE OF MIND
If you are a mindless drone and you have a hard time coming to your own conclusion, Corporate Avenger is the band for you. They try there very best to shove every belief they have right down your gullet through all 13 songs on Freedom Is A State Of Mind. All you have to do is picture Rage Against the Machine with a more rap flavor to it.
As I muddle through yet another rap/metal infusion, I cannot help but feel a bit of disgust at this offering. I truly believe in freedom of speech and a right to free expression, but what the fuck was Corporate Avenger thinking? They attack the police department in the song I Don’t Fault The Police as they struggle to match the lyrical content of N.W.A. in a blatant rip off of their Fuck Da Police. Shit, CA’s opinions don’t stop there, oh no. They rap there way on topics like the mistreatment of the Indians to the paranoia of the FBI watching them. Every single song on this disc is another attempt to jump on the soapbox and preach to us. Not only do they rant about politics and the law in general, but, they have the biggest hard on for religion I have ever heard. They have dedicated four songs, The Bible Is Bullshit, Jesus Christ Homosexual, Heaven’s Joke and Christians Murdered Indians to the utter bashing in ones beliefs. Give it a rest already.
In the albums liner notes, they state that with this album, they are educating us in the “true” nature of our history. Now while I have no problem with this in theory, I purposely avoid TV on Sunday mornings to avoid this type of rhetoric. If The 700 Club made an album, this is the shit they would peddle to us, with half the proceeds going to God, of course. Corporate Avenger tries to make a viable statement through all 13 tracks as they whine and bitch about everything they find wrong with this country. If you hate it so much, goodbye, leave shitheads. Go move to a nice third world country and try and make songs like this about them.
Like the band Stryper from the 80’s, Corporate Avenger has used their music contract as the chance to tell us how and what we should believe. I don’t mind an opinionated band at all for I enjoy songs with substance. My problem is that Freedom Of A State Of Mind is trying to latch on to what is in as far as the musical spectrum goes while spouting of in generic rants just for shock value. Freedom is not just a state of mind, though. We are also allotted the freedom to decide what we can spend our money on and what albums should get thrown in the crapper. At least now I have a shiny new coaster to put my beer on.
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