Daily Dose of Protest: The Law of Asbestos – Ashenspire

From the artist’s Bandcamp

This hard-hitting tune is off Hostile Architecture, the sophomore album by the Scottish Red and Anarchist Black Metal (RABM) band. According to the Bandcamp description, the album “is a sonic exploration of the ways that subjects under late capitalism are constrained and set in motion via the various structures that uphold stratification and oppression in urban contexts.”

Those themes are explored on the album track “The Law of Asbestos” with politically explicit lyrics such as “Capital’s pre-eminence made matter. Nailed to the high-rise, under the budgetary hammer” and “Another set of fucking homeless spikes outside another empty shop. Always three months to the gutter. Never three months to ascent. This is not a house of amateurs. This is done with full intent.”