Skunk Anansie, from artist’s Bandcamp
I previously posted a list of 100 heavy metal songs and followed it up with a video discussing 10 of those tunes. To further highlight metal’s contribution to the canon of protest music here is a list of 50 albums. The list is presented in chronological order and for the sake of variety, the list is limited to one album per artist. Also, I’ll be posting a Spotify playlist which will include two songs per album. Also check out the video discussing 10 of the albums.
- Paranoid – Black Sabbath (1970)
- Killing Joke – Killing Joke (1980)
- Hear Nothing See Nothing Say Nothing – Discharge (1982)
- Suicidal Tendencies – Suicidal Tendencies (1983)
- Powerslave – Iron Maiden (1984)
- Arise! – Amebix (1985)
- Dealing With It! – D.R.I. (1985)
- Master of Puppets – Metallica (1986)
- Convicted – Cryptic Slaughter (1986)
- Ignorance – Sacred Reich (1987)
- Killing Technology – Voivod (1987)
- Scum – Napalm Death (1987)
- Vivid – Living Colour (1988)
- Operation Mindcrime – Queensrÿche (1988)
- World Downfall – Terrorizer (1989)
- Handle With Care – Nuclear Assault (1989)
- For Whose Advantage – Xentrix (1990)
- Rust In Peace – Megadeth (1990)
- Seasons in the Abyss – Slayer (1990)
- Blind – Corrosion of Conformity (1991)
- Rage Against The Machine – Rage Against The Machine (1992)
- Psalm 69 -Ministry (1992)
- Body Count – Body Count (1992)
- Chaos A.D. – Sepultura (1993)
- Point Blank – Nailbomb (1994)
- Burn My Eyes – Machine Head (1994)
- Demanufacture – Fear Factory (1995)
- Destroy the Machines – Earth Crisis (1995)
- Stoosh – Skunk Anansie (1996)
- Pure Chewing Satisfaction – Lard (1997)
- Burn the Idol of the White Messiah – Racetraitor (1998)
- Spit – Kittie (1999)
- Toxicity – System of a Down (2001)
- Ashes of the Wake – Lamb of God (2004)
- Potemkin City Limits – Propagandhi (2005)
- Gojira – From Mars to Sirius – Gojira (2005)
- Monolith of Inhumanity – Cattle Decapitation (2012)
- Kentucky – Panopticon (2012)
- Nightmare Logic – Power Trip (2017)
- The Unlawful Assembly – Dawn Ray’d (2017)
- Clever Girl – Sharptooth (2017)
- Stranger Fruit – Zeal & Ardor (2018)
- Infest the Rats’ Nest – King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard (2019)
- Gas Lit – Divide and Dissolve (2021)
- Hostile Architecture – Ashenspire (2022)
- God’s Country – Chat Pile (2022)
- Diaspora Problems – Soul Glo (2022)
- A New Tomorrow – Zulu (2023)
- Desolation’s Flower – Ragana (2023)
- Retas – Voice of Baceprot (2023)