• Track_Shovel@slrpnk.net
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    13 days ago

    Here’s a sample of an interview he weaves into his songs:

    Well at that time we were working 10 hours a day, and we were getting 6 and a fraction cents an hour. Well, we breaker boys, we’d have our feet in the chute. And we’d be picking the slate out, when the breaker boss would sneak up behind us, and if he’d see a piece of slate coming through, he’d pick up the scrape and he’d hit you in the back with it, and he’d hit you hard! And then he’d say “Pick that slate out!”. Well they used to abuse us, actually

    A breaker boy is literally a boy who sits in the mill, sorting ore, pulling out waste rock.

    Remember, capitalists did this to us before, and they would do it to us again if they thought for an instant they could get away with it

    Don’t believe me? Look at the use of international Temp workers in agriculture, mining, meat packing, or oil and gas

    • Danquebec@sh.itjust.works
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      13 days ago

      Well, I believe you. It’s not the matter. It’s that, to me, the subject matter, especially in that form, doesn’t work as a black metal song. As far as I’m concerned, you might as well scream how delicious the burger you ate today, on a background of distorted tremolo picking, dissonant melodies, and blast beats.