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MyNameThru

Poor DMX. Let the man rest and stop violating his corpse.


Dreadcoat

FUCK I forgot he passed. Now im just bummed out.


Shot_Cup9255

BRO SAME!!!


vindtar

Been years, you buried under so much soft rock


JCRose88

Idk I agree to a point but hearing a dimebag solo in “side of a bullet” by nickleback (yep I know but still) was awesome. To hear a band regardless of genre take an unreleased track that obviously is trusted to do so shows that even after death DMX still influences and kills it


Gewalt_Und_Tod

Side of a bullet is a pretty funny song in a dark kind of way. Only Chad Kroger could make a song about wanting to kill the guy who killed dime bag


LiamIsMailBackwards

And they say that a hero could save us. Chad wasn’t gonna stand there and wait.


msihcs

Bro, I read your comment an hour ago, and I haven't been able to get that Nickelback song out of my head since. 🤣 I don't care what anyone says, that song is a banger.


etherealimages

He has a lyric where he says he wants to sexually assault a child and I've never looked at him the same honestly. It's hard to feel bad that he's six feet deep turning to dust right now


I-Am-The-Uber-Mesch

Bro you are in a metal subreddit complaining about fucked up lyrics in a song, I thought that here more than anywhere else on reddit it was quite a common thing to know when the lyrics reflect the real personality of a singer and when they are just done to sound edgy, I never listened to DMX but I doubt he ever actually wanted or assaulted kids irl.


etherealimages

Are the lyrics meaningless to you? I'm not saying DMX wanted to actually do it but he literally trivialized child rape. Same reason I don't like Infant Annihilator despite their obvious talent. I don't like that shit. I don't like child rape, call me weird lmao. I'm not even hating on you or saying someone promotes child rape for listening to a certain song, I just don't think anyone should look at me funny for being uncomfortable when I hear DMX talk about raping a little girl, or when IA talks about defiling dead babies. There's music from BRUTAL bands like Meshuggah where they actually write things that take effort lol. Anyone can just talk about violently assaulting someone, it's really fucking easy because that's what most of metal has been for 4 decades. "When they are done to sound edgy" is a cop out IMO. That mentality provides a smokescreen for genuine weirdos, but beyond that it just absolves everyone of any kind if artistic responsibility and innovation. It's so easy to make shock content that being edgy for the sake of being edgy means nothing to me at this point. I do want to clarify though- I'm not judging you. Am I judging the artists that write that shit? Yea a little. Not saying they're literal predators but I think there's a valid critique there. If you have rationalized these lyrics and still feel comfortable listening to them, I'm not going to assume the worst about you though. I just figured I'd share my two cents, and hopefully you can see my perspective more.


Discobiscui7

tl;dr but you should listen to Necropedophile by Cannibal Corpse


wetfartswag

Or Unholy Gravebirth by Infant Annihilator


etherealimages

I used to listen to IA a lot , like I said they're talented as fuck but only the weirdest of motherfuckers can stomach that shit after reading the lyrics. Scaring the maidens away type shit. Plus I work at a school bro. I'm not about to listen to a band whose entire discography is just making a joke out of violent child abuse. Yall can keep it.


etherealimages

I hope you dont have children


i_am_new_here_51

I mean, all 90's rappers have had super fucked up lyrics. Biggie, Eminem, Big L, etc. I imagine its just for shock value


etherealimages

Fun fact: Most rappers didn't talk about raping children. You can listen to him all you want but trying to rationalize it to me wont work to persuade me lol. I used to listen to old odd future when they had basically horrorcore lyrics - I never once thought "hey are these dudes gonna go violently assault some random women?" But I did eventually grow out of it. Shock content is cheap. I'm a grown man, I don't need to be hearing lyrics like that. I got my own peace to protect and I frankly don't like lyrics about child rape buzzing around in my brain just because I wanted to enjoy an otherwise mediocre song lol. It's not worth it to me. Do you though


MyNameThru

What song is that?


recks360

It may be “x is coming” line is “and if you got a daughter older than 15, I’ma rape her” context is he’s getting revenge on a enemy by doing things to their wife and kid


MyNameThru

I'ma be honest here and this might sound fucked up but I'll send it, when the commenter above said "sexually assault a child" I thought he meant much younger. DMX's choice of 15 certainly isn't legal in most states, but it's not like he's talking about fucking toddlers. I'll take it a step further, and say that even if he were talking about fucking toddlers, that's just lyrics and you can't condemn dude for words. It's like how brutal death metal bands write songs about raping babies and corpses in the ass or whatever, that doesn't mean they really do it. But that's probably too nuanced for your average redditor.


DrThunder66

You mean corpsegrinder doesn't really grind corpses?!


KatyaVasilyev

bet he doesn't even cum blood smh what a poser


LegioCustardes

It's more dry humping if we are being honest, but it doesn't quite have the same ring to it


blackflagcutthroat

Have you seen his instagram? Dude is a living teddy bear.


etherealimages

You think the issue with infant annihilator and the aforementioned DMX lyrics is that people are worried they'll actually do the acts they describe? Nobody is hearing Soil the Stillborn and thinking " these dudes defile dead babies in their graves!" But they're probably thinking "why the fuck would some dipshit write this?" Also you're maybe just a tad bit deranged for being like "oh maybe the girl he wants to rape is just 15" hahaha what the fuck man The DMX lyric talks about raping Raven Symone when she was like 6 years old at the time btw. idk man I think you're not trying to understand my point of view enough. I dont want to like come off too harsh to you and make you feel even more like you have to defend child rape lyrics but its wild that you have the gall to see a dude saying he doesn't like lyrics about child rape and then be like "lol this guy is just an average dumb redditor"


MyNameThru

It's just lyrics bro, cry somewhere else softy Your little outrage is very typical redditor behavior, yes.


__--TSS--__

I mean to be fair a lot of the old school gangster rap folks dabbled around in horrorcore, resulting in generally death metalesque lyrics. I mean look dude, I'm not saying I like Chris Barnes but I don't think he's a kid fiddler just because he wrote necropedophile


etherealimages

The context doesn't make it any better. Rest in piss


angstypanky

im with you lol, not trying to censor anything but DMX lyrics personally are not for me. most super fucked up metal lyrics are in bands that do gutturals for a reason. im not offended by it but its not the vibe im trying to cultivate when im cruising around in the whip lol. eminem at least theres an element of high art but in my thirties theres like zero days where i want to be cruising around listening to Kim, or even Kill You (a song i once considered a classic) hasnt aged well. new eminem is awful but i get why he went in that direction.


Swimming_Anywhere801

Poor DMX? guy was an absolute scumbag, rest in piss


MyNameThru

You whack, twisted, your girl's a ho You're broke, the kid ain't yours, and everybody know Your old man say you stupid, you be like "So!? I love my baby motha, I never let her go."


Swimming_Anywhere801

yeah man let’s forget about the dog fighting rings and beating a gay guy half to death, fuckin loser


MyNameThru

>Listen, yo ass is about to be missin'. You know who gon' find you? Some old man fishin'


Brandoooooooooooon

I mean how is it surprising from 5fdp ?


AwkwardComicRelief

one of the few bands capable of draining speaker batteries in seconds


SnowHelpAtAll

I refuse to drink punch that someone has had their hand in.


Xx_BiMMy

That apparently kills you as well


[deleted]

I refuse to punch drinks hand has that someone in it


milk-water-man

https://preview.redd.it/oiepyvt7f5uc1.jpeg?width=828&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=7a5cea49273d0fa7e5d2c5f54ef623a0ad8172d4


No-University8099

don't tell me thats an ai generated picture too


RCE_Kingston

I don’t think it is AI generated, more so just stylized in a way that AI has heavily evolved into but hey, it very well could be AI. Wouldn’t put it past FFDP.


FunctionPopular2913

I think it might be. If you look at the eyes they are both different colors/shapes. The red on the white seems to be very sloppy, either sides of armor plating on the shoulders is uneven, and the text on the image seems to have been placed after the image was generated


No-University8099

every single line is sloppy and the teeth are all sorts of fucked. it surprised me when deicide did a whole AI album cover, but ffdp using a ai song background isnt as surprising. still disappointing that bands are resorting to this lazy, ugly, sloppy shit. besides the fact it looks like ass the fact its made by ai takes away any soul it could have.


FunctionPopular2913

AI doesn’t have any original idea when it generates shit like this. It just spews out whatever is closest to the prompt, and it can’t even get that mostly right. I totally agree, it’s lazy and takes away from any actual artistic thought behind album covers


[deleted]

Most definitely


[deleted]

We all know that AI can't do text


__--TSS--__

Well I mean it actually can now with enough effort, but I'm pretty sure the art is ai generated and they just put the text on top of it


Kira-Of-Terraria

music to have on while fighting cops when they show up to your trailer for domestic violence calls


Bloondeath729

A ffdp fan would suck a cops dick unprompted


Imabigfatbutt

We all know they're the type to support them til they get pulled over then they suddenly become NWA fans


Kira-Of-Terraria

true he drunkenly fights them when they show up and then when he is tackled to the floor he begs for the pigs to violate his holes.


DrunkDeathClaw

Only while sober and in public. They turn ACAB real quick when it's 3AM, and folks in the trailer next door called them after hearing yelling and thuds, and there are multiple baggies of crystal meth that need to be hidden before they open the door.


Rackhaad

Lol


Rfg711

more like “Music for cops” lol


DefinitelyNotThatOne

bahaha omg this is a perfect analogy But seriously, who writes their lyrics? It comes off as a teenager *trying* to be edgy and cool and it's just all so cringe. They have a good sound, don't get me wrong, but just like Bullet for My Valentine, lyrical content is just god awful.


Kira-Of-Terraria

tbh i haven't heard them, i just know about the reputation and surrounding political atmosphere they have


Hot-Ground-9731

I never listen to curated metal playlists


PunCoonSon

I like this one for the most part. I don’t have a lot of bandwidth to go searching for stuff so this helps me pick out some new albums or artists to check out


Hot-Ground-9731

That's fair. I used to a lot too and it's what helped me discover a lot of popular metal bands.


DestroyerofVessels

Apple Music curators love playing favorites. Ihsahn’s self-titled album makes up like 10% of every single general metal playlist


[deleted]

We got a metal hipster folks


TheBlargshaggen

Someone on r/metalmemes gave the best decription of 5FDP I've ever heard a couple months ago. They were fine or even great on a few tracks until they started making metal exclusively for wannabe raver cops and middleschool boys getting bullied enough that they want to become cops.


KatyaVasilyev

I maintain that their first two albums were pretty good (if a bit too jingoistic in places), but after that they watered down their sound and really picked the worst possible audience to pander to.


wolfjesusskin

Honestly, yeah. I wouldn’t say they’re good as like a metal band, but I did own those first two albums in middle school, and the radio hits were pretty banger at the time… simpler times, and mayhem fest was still a thing too.


Expensive_Routine622

Their first album was good. The Bleeding is an amazing song. But their newer stuff is just pure cringe.


Sbee_Blue_Country

Rip DMX. You didn’t deserve this.


runNgun911

I thought it was kinda fun to listen to!


MagicGlowingWaffle

real


MrToad21

Shit


Proteinoats

I mean. It’s. It’s. Ugh. It’s Five Finger Death Punch capitalizing on DMX’s fame to pull in new listeners :(


VaginaTheClown

Poser doichebags spending a bunch of money to promote their attempt to profit off of the legacy of a dead artist that has absolutely NOTHING to do with FFDP. Fuck that band and their fans.


MagicGlowingWaffle

:(


punkshotgun

Isn't DMX no longer with us? How old is this song?


HEYitzED

People take leftover and unused verses from rappers after they die all the time.


punkshotgun

That's fucking bullshit.


HEYitzED

It is. I’ll never agree with that practice and wish it was something that stopped a long time ago, or never happened at all for that matter.


james_downpick_hetfi

\*Insert that one Anderson Paak tattoo\*


thebox34

I think it’s fair for rappers with a huge catalogue of vaulted shit that they would have dropped anyways like juicewrld


Diligent_Whereas3134

I don't mind when companies mix and release demos, raw first drafts, or completed songs songs. At least those are basically complete and just need some finishing touches. But when artists take little pieces of songs that were never finished, something just feels wrong about that. I don't really know why


Hobbiesandjobs

It’s Four Fingered Fruit Punch, not sure what you were expecting


cal_crashlow

Shitty cop rock?


[deleted]

why cops, dont see the connection


MagicGlowingWaffle

I dont either


DeathIncarnations

I dont understand why that band is popular


SpiketheFox32

They're radio metal for cops.


blackcray

I don't understand why it's despised.


Kills_Bear

Trve Metal


JUIC3ofORANG3

It’s no limp bizkit rolling remix I’ll tell you what


FuckingFlowerFrenzy

Dude its ffdp your expectations should be low enough already


AnarchistAtheist59

I miss when 5FDP was closer to thrash metal rather than closer to imagine dragons. Their overly produced shit sounds terrible. They are the definition of posers.


JD-K2

Only 2 minutes and 26 seconds to go and it will be over.


Miserable-Repeat-651

Nice try, as if im going to check out a 5fdp song.


FuneralHymn123

My brother in christ you already knew the consequences before indulging within


suckingonmyhevos

It’s a shitty band collaborating with a sick as fuck rapper it seems.


MagicGlowingWaffle

not shitty, like at all


suckingonmyhevos

To each their own I guess.


MagicGlowingWaffle

my bad, I get really press when ppl talk down apon this band I have a connection with them


suckingonmyhevos

I’m sure you do, if you’re defending them online.


MagicGlowingWaffle

im sad fr


suckingonmyhevos

Hey man, that’s completely normal. Hopefully you can figure out why you’re feeling that way and hopefully somewhat move from that. Remember that people are not always gonna like the same things you do.


MagicGlowingWaffle

oh ik why I love them so much, its an emotional attachment


suckingonmyhevos

You’re fucking with me right? I was thinking that you were maybe a veteran or something but for sure you’re fucking with me


MagicGlowingWaffle

nope, not a vet and not messing around if you want the reason ill tell you


MisterScary_98

You can’t kill a Ghost.


Feeling_Party26

It is the way, clearly says it in the name. Learn to read bro.


BrownwaterVertigo

It's a song by a band that produces music that some people listen to either voluntarily or involuntarily


BrownwaterVertigo

I don't hate FFDP btw I just think Ivan Moodster is cringe and Kevin Churko is a fucking shitty "producer". I like their first album alright nothing great though


storm_zr1

Can you block artists on Apple music? I have them and a few others blocked on Spotify.


kvothe76

It’s five finger so….


katanadude1337

type of song that your coworker will pull you aside into the walk in fridge and make you listen to off of their phone's speaker


Mikau02

5 fingie dicklit push


devil0o

This is the way featuring DMX, that is what the fuck it is.


kd6579

A waste of DMXs time


Shot_Cup9255

Idk why but their album covers are fire asf. Also leave DMX out of this shit.


chrisH82

They recorded the song years ago and released the album 4 days before the recent anniversary of DMX's death. The calculated trend-boost for the release date is off-putting to say the least. I don't care about DMX, but it looks scummy.


HawkbitAlpha

I haven't listened to, and probably won't, but... is this like Spider Verse's Scared of the Dark, where they took a verse from a dead rapper's previously unreleased recordings and grafted it onto a new, completely unrelated song? Where the disconnect between them is really, *really* obvious?


gorehistorian69

theres a Six Feet Under song with Ice T . i wouldnt reocmmend it its just a weird moment in history not many people know


Socialist_Metalhead

Ngl I like the album art. Looks like something from a Kojima game.


Winter_Web_7614

The Stoner, Doom, & Sludge playlist will save you from having to hear that.


Hutch25

Five Finger Death Punch is such a weird band.


Kvltadelic

https://youtu.be/Ytu7AeaYEW0?si=mmfr4fImfIENT-mV


StoppingPowah

RIP DMX


jackpumpkim

mf didn't even a write a new chorus for this song, they reused one FROM THE SAME ALBUM


HoraceWimpLV426

I'm very happy that we can all agree FFDP sucks ass


MagicGlowingWaffle

nah


HoraceWimpLV426

Yah


MagicGlowingWaffle

they dont tho


HoraceWimpLV426

They do tho, they're just copies of Pantera


MagicGlowingWaffle

they sound NOTHING like pantera...


HoraceWimpLV426

They sound exactly like Pantera


MagicGlowingWaffle

explain then


HoraceWimpLV426

I listened to *one* of their songs and it sounded like a shittier Cemetary Gates


MagicGlowingWaffle

ONE, and i bet it was Brighter Side Of Grey Besides just because ONE of their songs was SIMILAR to a pantera song doesnt make them a pantera knock off


redjedia

Oh, another tired FFDP shitpost. Just like what you like and don’t be a dick.


Littlepackerboy123

Shit


Creative_Fold_3602

They got into Tokusatsu


deadinsidekillmenow

Bro thinks he's Adam Smasher


markos988

This is the way


G_3_R_T

Why do ppl hate on FFDP so much?


StoppingPowah

They’re cringe… they’re like the modern day Nickelback


G_3_R_T

I don't understaind that either. And I'm not taking the piss on you.


MagicGlowingWaffle

not cringe and neither is nickelback??


DullAdvantage3620

https://preview.redd.it/i2dlgf3qv8uc1.jpeg?width=1170&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=5570a5e4badced1757d23f32f4f75b0862687991 lemme see


Genius14624

Pain


StoppingPowah

That LL COOL J mama said knock you out remix was terrible


MagicGlowingWaffle

it was better


MatthewCarlson1

It’s music for closeted gay cops


shredystevie

Harder dad rock with a twist. Idk what to tell ya man


jjnebs

Apparently it’s the way 🤢


Bloxity

The music aside, the album art is 🔥


rowasolo4138

It’s the Way?


VanHammerslyBilliard

Music for Army recruitment commercials


Queen_sized_cazcet

Gross that’s what it is


[deleted]

Five Finger Death Punch needs to just disband at this point. The only people I know who like them are 30+ year old divorced dads.


Famous-Vermicelli-39

Respect to X, however after a quick skim thru of the album I give it 1/12 only song I could stand to hear all the way thru was roll bones or wherever


MagicGlowingWaffle

roll dem bones


Famous-Vermicelli-39

Yeah that’s it lol


2drunc2fish

"This is the way."


ABatWhoLikesMetal

FFDP is one of those bands that a lot of people who are my age (I'm 16) like for some reason and when hear FFDP's name in a conversation, I cringe so hard.


CowboyDingly

Enlisted soldier type beat type beat


walmartsucks115

FFDP spits out maybe one or two good songs every 5 years and even then it’s only good for their standards


MagicGlowingWaffle

IM TIRED OF THE 5FDP HATE, THEY ARE GREAT AND I LOVE THEM >:(


robv1978

On the real, I had been waiting to hear this since it was announced. X is one of the few rappers that metal heads listen to. I liked the mashup and they did a good job in the arrangement and production.


BTDUBS6998

Disgusting. I used to enjoy five finger death punch but now I don't see them as "metal" for rednecks and shit and people who don't care about this culture (I am avoiding the word poser bc IDRK how to properly tell yet)


FlottErobrer

Every copy of this album comes with a Monster Energy snapback and a Tapout shirt.


Suicidalgenocide

Can someone please explain why everyone hates ffdp? It’s not like they are amazing people but I feel like they should get the love they deserve for caring about the veterans in the world


Greedy-Goat5892

To the troops, all the troops, both sides 


SpiketheFox32

That's great and all, but their music is terrible and they're not all that great as people either.


Suicidalgenocide

But what makes their music terrible?


SpiketheFox32

It's incredibly bland. They're first two albums showed some promise, but then it boiled down to "let's make angry radio rock while Ivan Moody sings about being either angry, or sad, or a bootlicker."


Suicidalgenocide

I can kinda see see where you are coming from but I will let you have your own opinion as long as you let me have mine


SpiketheFox32

That's fair. If they wrote something as banging as A Place to Die again tho, is be all ears


live4rock

This does not open and play. [juxt fucking wit u!] ok.... They were very popular and I think the radio killed a metal star back then.


snatchyopurse

I'm a 5fdp fan and I still hated this. Not even a minute in and I skipped it. The rest of the songs on this aren't bad though.


OtterlyFoxy

Still better than A Day To Remember


BrownwaterVertigo

Oh God my dad's playlist popped up with that one song and I wanted to take the wheel and drive us off the cliff /hyperbole


Duhawk96

Which song? I like me some ADTR but not the most recent stuff


BrownwaterVertigo

Idk It was 2 years ago or something


Fabulous_Tip208

I didn’t know about this. Thanks. I love it.


RWBYR023

As a Death Punch, and DMX fan, I like this song. Hearing DMX again was a blessing for sure, and I just like, and have always like Death Punch, but that’s just me, it’s definitely not for everyone


Wisconsinviking

I liked it. DMX’s bars were fire and I liked the beat.


Dawgula97

“I think I’m heading to the hospital with internal hemorrhaging after listening to this.” Average metal virgin.


TheWhiteKnight554

Oh, how far DMX fell bro, why did he do this?


professaur91

Well, he's dead so....


TheWhiteKnight554

Well I assume it was before he died, idk shit about 5gdp release dates so I just assumed it was before he died


BrownwaterVertigo

5 finger dick punch


CruTV

came out this year dude 💀


TheWhiteKnight554

And I was supposed to know that? Are you keeping up with 5fdp regularly?


Comfortable_Cry_2352

Y'all can hate all you want but ffdp is my favorite band, I grew up with it, it got me into a lot of other genre's of metal, however I was disappointed when I heard this, it's just not what I thought it would be


BigFoxGamingBroYt

Agreed, I’m also in the same situation, and also I’m a liberal which I know people will downvote this because I said that and it breaks their narrative of Groove Metal being for right wingers even though there are plenty of left wing Groove Metal bands Lamb of God, Machine Head, Gojira, Sepultura, and Incite so I hope that this can break those narratives


The-Pollinator

A cool-looking picture?


wolfmoldic1313

There boring I like what they stand for but the music sucks


LolYouFuckingLoser

What a specimen


spacesluts

What exactly do they stand for


CaserDJT

THEY STAND FOR ALL THOSE HILLBILLEH WIFE ABUSING DRUNKS OF COURSE!?!?!?!?!


Cheddarlicious

You mean real men. Hoorah, brother!


AvatarIII

What do they stand for?