Album: “Third World Genocide” by Nuclear Assault (2005)

Third World Genocide

They come to rule and not by chance
Aided by a bloodied lance
No elections needed here
Such things mundane are not their way
A thousand rivals lying dead
And their families starved, decayed
No relief by foreign aid
A poisoned dagger is their way

Government by those who kill
And then collect from U.N. tills
They live on aid and ask for more
When all it does is pay for way

So carefree
Your killing spree
I must be blind I can't see
Tell me what is human life worth

The skies cry bloody tears

A dramatic description of the situation in a third world country. Dictatorships, coup d etat, mass assassinations, violent guerrillas, pain, diseases, starvation and survival through foreign pittance as help.



Eroded Liberty

Welcome to the age of an American empire
Not a day will pass when bombs don't seem to fly
Scream about the rights of victims and their pain
But your actions are where the causes lay

Don't like what we have done - we're not the only ones
before you raise you rage - look closely at your past

Algeria and Viet Nam - Africa the Middle East
English ships and the slave trade - now tell me who's the beast

European leaders wringing their own hands
Set aside as powers in the holy land
To Europe we are lacking in sophistication
Are we another shitty little country

Don't like we have done - we're not the only ones
Before you raise your rage - look closely at your past

South East Asia and India
Aztec Mayan and Incan worlds
Chinese hooked an opium
Sacrificed for the old world ways

Belief in their empire covers them in cloth
Forget their powers and morals for the part
History shows us this has always been our harm
When we put up with this and the UN in charge

Don't like we have done - we're not the only ones
Before you raise your rage - look closely at your past

America your enemy
To heal your leaders tell
But for your own demands
You need our power as well

USA is the bloodied imperium today and such a blame is of course fair, but “he who is sinless let him first cast the stone”. Historically, European countries have also created extreme bloodied imperia and sent conquerors all over the world and in American natives. Certain socio-political circumstances raise certain imperia and of course no common people is guilty for it in the past.
In reality, all people are responsible for their today world situation but to the extent that they give their consent or support certain policies and re-elect war supporters leaders, and for
big fluctuations and hypocrisy in their attitudes towards a powerful country when they are going to receive any kind of help (economical, political, etc) from this country.
Thus, political slogans like “Americans! People’s Murderers!” that cried out in Europe and also literally blame all people with American citizenship for collective responsibility are blameworthy in any way. There is also the “Other” America, that of social, anti-war and anti-G8/WTO movements and ecological activism.

You can hear songs from this album in myspace

Album: out of order by Nuclear Assault 1991

Two songs with no direct reference to environmental issues, nevertheless they are included as of paramount importance in any Green political agenda or declaration.

Doctor Butcher

Woke up one night with this fierce pain in my chest
Didn't know what to do, couldn't even rest
Ran down to the doctor's office to see where I stand
He checked me out and said "take this medicine, you'll be alright"

The doctor is a butcher
He'll give you some medicine just to suit you
The doctor is a butcher
He'll give you any medicine just to get rid of you

The nightmare wasn't over, I was stooped over in pain
And taken to the emergency room
Waiting for two hours, by the time they got to me
I passed out, felt like I was flushed down the drain

Somebody help me, please get me the right doctor
I'm sick of being used as an experiment

The doctor is a butcher
He'll give you some medicine just to suit you
The doctor is a butcher
He'll cut you up anytime, just to get his kicks

Woke up one night with this fierce pain in my chest
Didn't know what to do, couldn't even rest
Ran down to the doctor's office to see where I stand
He checked me out and said "take this medicine you'll be alright"
But he was wrong

Another song from the same band about the cruel medicinal methods of conventional medicine in contrast with the holistic approach of the patient by the alternative medicine. We discussed this theme again here and here.


Hypocrisy

The righteous gather to deliver judgement
Never caring for the needs of the poor
Are you pro-life when you bomb their clinics
Killing the unborn and the born
It's also a sin to use protection
Or that is what you have us believe
You don't care 'cos it doesn't affect you
You're too fucking old to conceive

Wallow in hypocrisy
Wallow in hypocrisy

From where I stand and hear you talk, it really makes me sick
What's even worse is people seem to listen to these hicks
A woman's body's not your province, none of your concern
So go back to your bible belt, you've got a lot to learn

Abortion's not the answer either
Is it fair for you to say
That she should go through pregnancy
So a total stranger can take it away
Why don't you just mind our business
Leave the rest of us alone
'Cos I don't care about the bible
Or what your holy pope condones

Wallow in hypocrisy
Wallow in hypocrisy

From where I stand and hear you talk, it really makes me sick
What's even worse is people seem to listen to these hicks
A woman's body's not your province, none of your concern
So go back to your bible belt, you've got a lot to learn

The righteous gather to deliver judgement
Never caring for the needs of the poor
Are you pro-life when you bomb their clinics
Killing the unborn and the born
It's also a sin to use protection
Or that is what you have us believe
You don't care 'cos it doesn't affect you
You're too fuck old to conceive

From where I stand and hear you talk, it really makes me sick
What's even worse is people seem to listen to these hicks
A woman's body's not your province, none of your concern
So go back to your bible belt, you've got a lot to learn

Wallow in hypocrisy
Wallow in hypocrisy
Church and state conspiracy
Wallow in hypocrisy
Barring any leniency
Wallow in hypocrisy
Ancient in their dormancy
Wallow in hypocrisy
They wallow in hypocrisy
Wallow in hypocrisy
Hypocrisy
Wallow in hypocrisy

An interesting song about women’s right to abortion and an attack to religious fundamentalists who try to abolish it, revealing their hypocrisy and inconsistencies.

You can hear the instrumental song of this album that pleads us to
SAVE THE PLANET

Nuclear Assault 1987, 1988

EP The Plague 1987

The Plague

"When the weapons are stronger
Than their masters"

There will come a day
When all are killed
A fate that we all share
A prophecy of doom fulfilled
With no-one left to care
A weapon that should not be used
Because there's no control
A plague ensures that both sides lose
A monster with no soul

It reaches out in the night
Preying on its victims
No way to survive
You'll die of the plague

A hell that now has come to earth
Where must the blame now lie
A government that sponsors death
A science against life
They claim to protect us from harm
I say that they all lie
They claim for peace we must be armed
With weapons they devise

It reaches out in the night
Preying on its victims
No way to survive

Now there are but a few left
To live among the dead
They survived while most men died
Including those who led
A virus can't discriminate
It kills all it infects
And for those who have survived
There isn't much now left

It reaches out in the night
Preying on its victims
No way to survive
You'll die of the plague


A song about the threat of a biological war between the great powers of cold war era. OK, the cold war era is over, but the threat of a terroristic biological attack is quite possible and so simple.

Album: Survive 1988

Brainwashed

Radio, an insidious form,
helps shape your thoughts
making you conform

Programming music easy listening,
help you achieve that moronic grip
Playing you regurgitated pap,
selling products that are mostly crap

Rarely hearing music you want to hear,
it bas an effect over all these years
Why don't you think for yourself
Live in this self made Hell

Television, the idiot tube,
helps to raise our children as fools

Watch the news see what they want you to see,
our awareness is limited by network
Moronic sit-coms and one-sided news
alter your feeling give you conformist views

Why can't you get that garbage out of your head,
you'd better off to read a good book instead

Newspapers, what do they say,
Not much I think when they want school kids to pray
Getting the facts from some daily news,
you hate the system but adhere to its view

Blaming the dead because they can't complain,
shielding officials holding them above
You'd better wake up and see what's plain to see,
or end up a willing part of the machine


Technology

Look around tell me what you see,
we are products of technology
The nuclear age has left its mark,
it's up to us to avoid the dark

You don't care what's around
You you're blind and deaf
Just sit back and watch TV
Don't care what you're seeing
Whey can't you look around
And see your surroundings
Learn to think for yourself

Hear without listening,
see without seeing,
ignoring parts of reality
I'm wasting my time,
I'm wasting my breath,
on people who choose ignorance


Two songs about our manipulation by Mass media and Technology. The bombardment of informaton, especially with the new technologies seems to have exactly the opossite effect: We became more inactive, more ignorant, by exceeding our capacity to validate them.

you can hear some songs in my space:

Game over, The Plague

many songs from "survive"

Album: Game Over by Nuclear Assault 1986

Radiation Sickness

Destruction
Has ruined your world
Flags of death
Have been unleashed
You've survived
And now you will die

Crawl through Hall
That once was your home
Search for help
Through despair that has grown
You've not lond
To live on this earth
You will die
Radiation shall kill

Shelter deep
Run and hide
There's no help
You will die
Shelter deep
Run and hide
There's no help
You will die

Fading fast
Your flesh shall rot
Life of pain
Is all you've got
There's no one left
To bury the dead
People hide
Behind walls of lead

Shelter deep
Run and hide
There's no help
You will die
Shelter deep
Run and hide
There's no help
You will die

Die, slow, death




After The Holocaust

Fires burning cities down
Your whole world's destroyed
Mutants crawl out from the ruins
To put you to the sword
Poisoned air in darkened skies
flows across the land
Fear and pain they breed despair
A new Dark age is at hand

After the Holocaust
After the Holocaust

Peoples lives are ruined
By man they've ever seen
A choice of death made for man
By leaders behind the scenes
The end result of a Nuclear War
That laid waste to us all
Our civilization crumbled down
By nightmares that destroy

After the Holocaust
After the Holocaust

Now the final curtains fall
On the world that you have planned
Most of those who have survived
Will die by their own hand
And now the world lies deathly still
Ruled by these insane
One can only wander now
If they'll make the same mistake

After the Holocaust
After the Holocaust
After the Holocaust



Nuclear War

War has come
To your home
Now it lies destroyed
Nuclear war, the final war
The end of all man's dreams
No one wins
In this game
Both sides have lost
Who has won
When all are dead
Except for the machines

Looking at the future
There's no much to see
Your homeland lies under
Radioctive debris

Millions dead
More on the way
What is worth this cost
For your god
And country
You'd destroy the world
It is madness
To believe
That you can survive
Take my word
You'd rather not
It's better just to die

Looking at the future
There's no much to see
Your homeland lies under
Radioctive debris


Three songs about the results and consequenses of a nuclear war. They focused on the famous slogan "Lucky are those who die quickly". "Game over" forever, leaders must realize that its not virtual computer wargame pushing buttons.

you can hear songs from this album in myspace:

Radiation sickness & Nuclear war

Album: Handle with care by Nuclear Assault, 1989

This album is dedicated to planet Earth. It calls us to be aware of its fragility so handle it with care.


Critical Mass

The bio-sphere, the place we live
It seems like we don't give a damn
Other species flushed down the tubes
We need another race to rape

The way we live we will destroy
Every other living thing
'Til none are left except our race
And then we will destroy ourselves

Another oil spill
Atomic waste displaced
Another forest dies
Bring on the acid rain

Slightly insane, the type of greed
That makes a world unfir for life
Toxic wastes destroy the seas
While poison gas pollutes the air

A waste of life, while no one cares
The earth becomes a giant tomb
Critical mass will be achieved
And ruins will be all that's left

Another oil spill
Atomic waste displaced
Another forest dies

A Hell on Earth, what we create
Dragging life to death with us
All living things destroyed or used
By shortsighted human beeings

We do these things, let them be done
Apathy creates despair
The damage done will be too great
The world wounded beyond repair

Another oil spill
Atomic waste displaced
Another forest dies


Inherited Hell

A time in the future, not too far away
The death of our world, we are told
Destroyed by neglect, now breeding despair
The home of mankind is despoiled

Polluted oceans, unbreathable air
The life of the land under siege
Cancer is spreading and wasting the world
And mankind is now the disease

Look upon the world you knew
And say goodbye, it dies with you
Those who live when we are dead
Will curse our names, they 've inherited Hell

The forests are gone and the ocean destroyed
The world we once knew now is dead
The animals slaughtered, wild life in its grave
The sun burns too bright overhead

Cities collapsing and famine runs rampant
A nightmare where once there was life
Radiation and toxins a part of the children
Who will hate us until they die

We never stopped to think or reflect
On what we have done to the world
The heritage we live our children is Hell
A short life in pain what we mold

We 've squandered resources and wasted the land
And left little for those to come
They will have nothing to claim for their own
Except for the Hell we have shown


Two songs about environmental destruction and their impacts to ecosystems and health in many details. It’s significant that the song “Critical Mass” talks about the possibility to exceed biosphere’s capacity to self-regulate our driven by greed polluting and destructive activities. The song “Inherited Hell” calls us to respect our children’s uncertain future, because they are doomed to live in a highly polluted and devastating environment. It recalls us the famous slogan: This planet is not ours. We borrowed it from the future generations”


Surgery

Wires drilled into my head
Tubes inserted in my neck
Toxins pumped into my veins
This treatments inhumane

Strapped to a table head and foot
Eyes blindfolded, I can't look
My life is all I've left to choose
As your scalpel makes its move

What have I done to deserve this?
Give up your cruel practices
When this nightmare runs it's course
You throw away my useless corpse


A song about the conventional medicine and its cruel and toxic methods to utilize than really cure illnesses (either mental or somatic) that our modern way of life (pollution, nutrition, work) produces. As we say in another similar song by Voivod (Ravenous medicine) alternative medicine is friendly and holistic, taking into account not only external intruders as cause of the disease, but also personality, relations, working conditions, pollution, etc. Disease is an inner imbalance caused by many factors and is treated in a way to restore this balance.


When Freedom Dies

United in a time, a time of need
Against a common foe, the enemy
The years of death endured, the years of pain
Against an evil force, a force not sane

We become the enemy
When freedom dies for security

And then the world endured, a victory won
Against an insane man and his cohorts
But once the war was done, blind fear prevailed
And years of darkness came, freedom was nailed

We become the enemy
When freedom dies for security

We let our freedom die, we let it wane
We feared an enemy's atomic rain
But what was on our minds, what we became
We and the enemy
We are the same

We become the enemy
When freedom dies for security

We become the enemy
When freedom dies for security


A very prophetic song about the well known policy of authorities to invoke the sense of security in order to restrict our freedom and human rights. We can see today this fact in the so-called war against terrorism which is in fact a war against people who resist in the socially and environmentally devastating policy of an uncontrolled economical system led only by greed. We become the enemy when freedom dies for security. We are the real enemy for the system, so we must be controlled and be recorded according to our biometric characteristics, according to our social behaviour, etc not only by local police but by Interpol, FBI, etc and these data can be transferred where is necessary (e.g. the place for G8 conference in order to prevent demonstrations)

You can hear some songs from this album in youtube:

Critical mass

When freedom dies

and Inherited Hell in myspace