“PROBOT” a project by Dave Grohl (2004)

"Silent Spring", vocalist: Kurt Brecht (DRI)

They ravaged the land
And polluted the seas
They burned all the forests
Or cut down the trees

They damned up the rivers
And paved all the shores
Built parking lots
And discount stores

Then they started to die
But not fast enough
So, they shot at each other
With bullets and stuff

Chalk it all up to human greed
As seen on your TV

So much cruelty and madness
In these days of despair
That's not the way that i am, no
That's not the way that i am

As the earth gets sicker and sicker
A soldier aims and pulls the trigger
Angels cry and demons laugh
Another suicide bomb blood bath

Silent spring - no birds sing
Angels cry - we all die

Mother earth wept
As they tore off her dress
Heart broken, humiliated
In a state of distress

They ripped out her hair
And they scratched at her skin
Drained her of her fluids
Then committed their sin

They gouged out her eyes
And cauterized her womb
They sealed up her mouth
And made her a tomb

Now she lies still
At the mercy of man
I whisper in her ear

"that's not the way that i am"
No that's not the way that i am
No that's not the way that i am
No that's not the way that i am
No that's not the way that i am

Strong feelings about human greed and violence. Planet suffers a lot by pollution, but people make the matter worse with conflicts and wars instead of rethinking their way of life. Earth was presented as raped and slaughtered woman/mother by her maniacs sprouts, but the singer is not one of them but he feels isolated and unable to help her, and the only thing that he can do is to express her his compassion and sorrow in secret. The song title was taken from the classic novel "Silent Spring" by Rachel Carson that was one of the most influential to the rise of ecological and environmental awareness and related movements.


"Ice Cold Man", vocalist: Lee Dorrian (Cathedral, Napalm Death, Teeth of Lions Rule the Divine)

Vampires of this earth hungry dying of thirst
Lifeblood in short supply
Black skies red watching eye
Burning into demise
As all light slowly dies
Seeds of man's decay have
Grown to take away
The sacred gift of life

Mother nature cries as
Darkness fills her eyes
Yes we are blind, too blind to see
Our tombstone destiny

Ice cold man watches earth die
Eternal winter takes its reign
Devoid of light filled with pain

Ice cold man watches earth die
Bleak the atmosphere
Freeing warmest tears

The earth a ball of ice
Bodies frozen cold glacier heart and soul
All warmth has long since died
In his arctic hearse man rides death universe
For one final time through black frosted sun
Into oblivion

Ice cold man watches earth die
Eternal winter takes its reign
Devoid of light filled with pain

Ice cold man watches earth die
Beneath a veil of black ice
He sees now hell once paradise

Ice cold man watches earth die
All love lost - lost without a trace
Behind his - frozen empty face
Defunct eyes - cold as arctic ice

Ice cold man...pays the final price
Ice cold man...watched the earth die
Ice cold man...ice cold man....

In his arctic hears man rides death universe
One final time through black frosted sun
Into oblivion

Ice cold man watched his earth die...


A lament for the environmental destruction caused by human actions and greed. The result (A human-caused Ice Age) is rather a metaphor and personnal interpretation about the oncoming destruction inspired by scenarios of nuclear winter after a nuclear warfare, or by fictitious blockade of sunlight by extensive air pollution than a scientific forecast based on todays climatic data which forsees rather a global warming than a global freezing.

You can hear these songs in youtube

Silent Spring

Ice Cold Man