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The Black Party

by Fortunate Fall

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Damien Thorne
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Damien Thorne So, I have been listening to this new release from Fortunate Fall here lately and I have to say that this is their best stuff to date for my tastes. They have honed their signature style of anarchy. Killer\m/\m/
Constant_Jay
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Constant_Jay This album is a huge step forward, in both production, and perfecting their respective style. A must listen for anyone who likes fast, rhythmic, or anarchist metal.
Favorite track: Distributive Justice.
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1.
Trained with prejudice ingrained To uphold the status quo Protect and serve the wealthy class Four horsemen in the shadows Harbingers using deadly force The arm of a state with no remorse Don't call the fucking cops They'll fucking kill you and they'll call if self defense Civil military complex Governed like a police state Suppress attempts to pull us out Oppressive tactics regulate They'll fucking kill you and they call it self defense Call you a criminal and make up an offense Backed by a system that's designed to give consent It isn't safe to be outside They don't care if you comply It isn't safe to be alive They don't give a fuck if you die
2.
Tear down these fucking walls Rip out the fucking veins Cut the head from the body We never left the chains Another profit system Oppression in design Victimize populations School to prison pipeline Sentries in the street enforce prejudice beliefs Place private property above me Soldiers march to the beat of racist beliefs And target marginalized minorities A past fiction informs present policy This is an extended slavery Front of the pack in prisoners Police the world our signature Tactics of war followed us here But the police still act out of fear Born as a criminal Born as invisible Incarcerate- the wealthy class That built these walls upon our backs Incarcerate- the wealthy class That built these walls to make some cash
3.
This is really happening It all fell apart We took several steps back instead of a fresh start We act out of fear Afraid to fail This fragile support system finally lifts its veil Was born into this alternate reality I woke up once the temperature began to change No longer able to ignore the imbalance For every success always comes at the expense Liberated from me The one who did not want to see Violence from the past Unknowingly left from the debris I can't go back and help anyone that I hurt I can't go back and fix anything left broken This is the ending The end for you My last redemption Is saved for you I'll fucking kill you
4.
Repeating empty words Relying on deflection Duplicitous response Toe the line until the next election buying time until attention runs out Endless stream of vapid distractions Paid to keep the peace and get out of the way Perpetuation that requires inaction It dies down then it happens again Another shooter out for revenge On a system that will always win A machine that profits at our expense Recycle empty words The power of deflection Focus on the next scare Cover up the infection Place the blame on another scapegoat Continue to demonize mental illness Toxicity trickles from the top A culture that encourages this sickness Sales climb alongside the death toll Fight for the country's fallen soul We climb deeper into this hole A fractured mess on the payroll There is a way- to tear down these walls that support today This is the time- to rewrite this book a different fucking way Corruption comes in different forms As long as markets perform We turn a blind eye to the truth And prepare for the next storm
5.
Know this will never be enough To stall this steady decline Fascism trickles from the top Obey without knowing you're in line Ingrained will to fight- subjugate through a divide but not unite Widespread mass control- goes better when you think you're above every fight Revision history with peace not progress A blood soaked past will always be repressed Reworking yesterday for today's fiction Abandon truth for a white washed depiction Political gain is paramount Anything in the way ends up in this ground Your false morality- was given to you to encourage apathy Another casualty- dies in front of you but somehow you don't see Reworded history for your agenda A bloodied past that has not ever ended We share this yesterday but see it in different ways It doesn't change to fit your needs The blood of our past remains
6.
Another carrot tied to a stick Leftover crumbs appease convicts It won't matter how much you cheat We encourage the biggest thief Public disgust lasting so brief Turn around hide in disbelief Lies tide the weak, blanket the street, while you're asleep Turn a blind eye, more people die, but you're alive You hide behind denied designs but they're just lies Willed ignorance no longer is deliverance Justice is free Take back the means Don't settle for a piece Take the whole thing Holes buried deep so that they can hide Hidden with purpose from public eyes Allow the deepest pockets to manipulate A board of directors decides our fate The cycle funnels to the top Pushing your income to drop Feeding on our own ensures This system will never stop
7.
Last Funeral 01:36
Enjoy your soul's starvation A world painted by corporation Designed to oppress as foundation The mob mentality is moving this nation A job is not the path to salvation In an office working the new plantation Conditioned apathy to sensation Nothing is wrong in a world of temptation Close your eyes let it all pass by or stay awake for the rest of your life Kill yourself chasing your illusion Hide behind your delusion Necessity dies with their world of greed In this life take what you need They pave the fucking world Until it no longer bleeds The weather is here Wish you were beautiful Reality from a lost dream Their reality is to deceive They pave the fucking world Until it no longer bleeds The weather is here Wish you were beautiful To console your soul Burn what makes you whole
8.
Control through drugs and entertainment A population that's sick can't consent A slow drip every day slowly chips away Inequality intended to suffocate Social stress is weakening eradicating reasoning Leaning on collective norms to find yourself a uniform Cultural decadence subjugates day by day A life of wage labor up to the grave Society's toxins take their toll Break us down to maintain control Meaninglessness a product of you Planning out your vapid shallow debut Focus on the hollow trappings construed Keep us all in bondage calm and subdued Depression from the hands of tyranny State led captivity Placed in a box and stripped of our dignity Depression at the hands of tyranny state funded currency Used to sell a false security
9.
Numbers 01:55
Vultures circle overhead Drawn by the smell of the dead Feeding on the rotting flesh Another communal death Falling behind as payments continue to rise Write new laws to eviscerate not civilize Paint over local culture as they sanitize Carnivores walk the streets and cannibalize Hiding behind an official disguise Appropriate and repackage your life There's nothing but money Nothing to stop this cleansing Mob when- they come to the streets Defend what's left- with everything It's not the money- but numbers we bring Everything when you have nothing Everything when you have nothing left
10.
Every day on someone else's land Taken and bough second hand Hide the graves under disneyland Red or blue its all the same Two sides playing the same fucking game Bondage with a different name That hideous system Lives on today Colonize in different ways Don't be tricked by a new face Occupation continues to displace The dispossessed were left with nothing at all Forced into subjugated urban sprawl Asymmetrical recognition Nonreciprocal contradiction Acknowledgment from the settler state End subjection or perpetuate Liberation Autonomy The apparatus fights against sovereignty Standing on stolen land Recognized but ignored off hand Politics to delay demands For too long falling on deaf ears Blood thirsty profiteers Who want everything for themselves Taking their hoarded wealth to hell There is no other way We must give back LA To the Tongva people today We must give back LA
11.
Not a Right 00:53
Will you put it on the line What are you willing to lose You can't just try it out You cant just pick and choose Privilege that gives you the right Take time away from the fight Something that is not shared Something that's not a right Every day your life's on the line State violence sustained by swine Without some skin in the game Perpetuating the same Police brutality You oppose vehemently Hour of reckoning Get the fuck up This is the deadening Stand the fuck up
12.
Privilege 01:30
An assumed level playing field all that you know Mutual give and take perceived privilege is shown Take what you want not what you need A culture of greed Echoes in your defense of systems that bleed Ignore a past of genocide A world colonized Continue to ignore voices you marginalize A world that seems to center you rewarded respect Entitlement to pick and choose how others object A history of forcing people to comply Assimilation to survive The backs of those that have died Came and went so I can have the privilege to exploit another's life Misrepresented by a guest Intention's irrelevelent Exploited for a selfish gain Power imbalance sustained
13.
Skinner Box 01:03
Demonized and isolated Locked in a box and sedated When the only out is self harm When you draw blood to disarm Left with no choice but comply Lost sanity by design There is so much we can take Repeated attempts to break Trapped in a cage with no lights Stripped of hope and what's left of any fight Behind bars that you put in place Behind bars that you can't out pace Another day just brings more of the same Another day and it all gets further away You're nothing You're no one Another number left to decay Left to empty choices we wait Breathing's a reminder of pain And all that remains
14.
With a Grin 01:27
Here it is back full circle once again Another attempt to eviscerate within I am not the answer you desire I just showed up to start a fire There are no shortcuts to be found No easy path to be inspired I sell off brand generic life manuals Another clown dancing up on stage Can't hold a job Cowards can't rob No roof above I've come undone Don't come to me Don't look for me I've gone from this place Don't recognize cut and past lies I despise every sunrise I'm blackened by my mistakes I'm seated at my own wake Here it is back full circle once again Discords and hollow words with a grin
15.
Necrophobia 01:45
I want to live today like it could be my last Set everything on fire to escape the past Another moment is passing me by I'm running out of time A fleeting impulse dies along with the day Apathy stands in the way Inflicting pain Cut deep to drain Sometimes it weighs so much I can't stand up The pressure builds, hurt unfulfilled When there is nothing real nothing to feel An emptiness inside and nowhere left to hide I spent my life running because I was afraid to die Every year it's the same Carving another name Into a cold headstone Next to a bleeding grave A wound I'll always save This cold dark place that beats us down without a sound It never stops it just gets worse Suffering from a collective curse Set on fire- Everything Just buying time- Until we die What will you leave When you leave it all behind To burn alive Everything untouched after we die

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An adventure in decolonization and revolutionary praxis from the LA based anarcho-metal band Fortunate Fall

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released June 19, 2018

Fortunate Fall is
Wesley Richards - Vocals/Guitars
Paul Allen - Bass
Nate Williams - Drums

All songs written, recorded and edited by Wesley Richards at Riot Ready Records in Inglewood, CA
All songs mixed and mastered by Jeff Dunne

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