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Rating: Two enormous cooling towers from which a river of steam emerges: radioactive or non-radioactive?
A malevolent grin in the air, uranium, plutonium, thorium, decay chains. Alpha rays, beta rays, gamma rays. They don't care about your skin color, whether you are rich or poor, they penetrate you naturally and then it's your problem. If the core melts, it's a big mess.
It’s the price to pay to keep the world running, to keep it running in the way that's been established.
However, not everyone agrees, there are still those who have the strength to make their voices heard, to express dissent. Dan Lilker did it with his Nuclear Assault, a creature born after his departure from Anthrax, a thrash metal band, but also a hardcore band, in short, for label lovers, a thrashcore band. East coast thrash was different from the west coast, hardcore was in the DNA of New York musicians.
“Survive” is a slap in the face lasting half an hour, a smack that aims to shake spirits. Sandpapered riffs merge with rowdy and defiant choruses that scream at everyone to wake up from their lethargy, to start thinking for themselves. The adrenaline is always high, moving from short songs around two minutes to very short songs, the proto-grindcore “PSA” (did someone say Brutal Truth?) lasts just a few seconds. The only exception is the Led Zeppelin cover (“Good Times, Bad Times”) placed at the end.
In the end, the important thing is to survive.
Tracklist Lyrics and Videos
01 Rise From the Ashes (03:07)
Am I dreaming, am I alive, the final war, I did survive
One of the chosen. One of the few. A world in ruins because of who
Now you look around
See the world in ruins
Those few who survive
No begin again
Leaders soon arise
Factions splitting off
Liars soon come again
Life is hell again
02 Brainwashed (02:41)
Radio!
An insidious form
Helping shape thoughts
Making You conform,
Programming Music
Easy Listening
Helps you to achieve
That moronic grin
Playing you
Regurgitated Pap
Selling products
That are mostly
Crap
Rarely hearing music
You wanna hear
It has 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
They only want to see
Our awareness is
Limited by network
VPs
Moronic sit-coms
One sided news
Alter your feeling
Give you conformist
Views
Why can't you get that
Garbage out of your
Head
You're better off to
Read a good book
Instead...
Why Can't You Think For Yourself?????
Live in this self made hell....
Newspapers!
What do they say??
Not much I think
When they want
School kids to pray
Getting some facts from
Some daily news
You hate the system
But adhere to its views
Blaming the dead
'Cause they can't
Complain
Shielding officials
Holding them
Above the blame
You better wake up and see
What's plain to see
Or end up a willing part of the machine.....
Why Can't You Think For Yourself?????
Live in this self made hell....
05 Fight to Be Free (04:26)
I am sick and tired of the way you've let things slide
Just because we're young doesn't mean we can't decide
If you think that we ain't got a thought inside our heads
I'm telling you right now that you better think again
Now we'll see what we can do for ourselves
It's time to show us some concern
I'm sick of your goddamned apathy
It's time to stand up and make yourself three
You have held us back and pushed us down for all our lives
When it comes to running things you've done a half-assed job
It is time that you learned it's what you do not what you say
And if you refuse to learn we're gonna make you pay
Now we'll see what we can do for ourselves
It's time to show us some concern
I'm sick of your goddamned apathy
It's time to stand up and make yourself three
Viet-Nam and Lebanon, other people's wars
I won't fight unless it's right, corporate wars no-more
I believe this country's worth my life to help defend
I won't fight to help keep Dow Jones out of the red
I am sick and tired of the way you've let things slide
Just because we're young doesn't mean we can't decide
If you think that we ain't got a thought inside our heads
I'm telling you right now that you better think again
Now we'll see what we can do for ourselves
It's time to show us some concern
I'm sick of your goddamned apathy
It's time to stand up and make yourself three
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