History Anvilicious / Music

** And then we have "The Vengeful One", from the same album, who is about the moral corruption of the news media. Especially [[https://youtu.be/8nW-IPrzM1g?si=mfzgYQem9NactyL_ its music video]], that has the subtlety of a loud and violent shotgun.[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B6CgQGuNK-M&t=8m17s Draiman attributes that to the director, Phil Mucci]].

* Music/{{Rush}} has "The Pass" - which states that suicide is NEVER the answer, and that there is always hope.

* "So Far Away" by Music/AvengedSevenfold is not hesitant to show how painful it really is to lose your friend. They are just as important as your parents and without them, you'll feel lost and empty. It also shows that life it really is worth living and people should take care of others.

** "Same Love" hits you in the face with its message about acceptance of everyone. It mostly focuses on LGBT issues and how, in an age of people trying to be tolerant, the public at large can still have issues with LGBT people. But the song states "it's all the same love" even if people aren't straight, comes from a personal place as Mackelmore cites his own questioning of his sexuality, and explicitly says "damn right I support it" with regards to gay marriage.

* The Music/{{Macklemore}} song "Same Love" pretty much hits you in the face with its message about acceptance of everyone, regardless of race, orientation, or anything else (though it mostly focuses on homosexuality and how, in an age of people trying to be tolerant, still have issues with it), but the points it brings up are pretty dead-on, especially this one:
-->America the brave\\

** Slightly less serious but still important is the message of "Thrift Shop," which is about how buying expensive brands and clothes isn't going to get you laid; Macklemore spends the whole song describing how awesome he feels in hand-me-down clothes.
-->That shirt's hella dope.\\

* While it's true that the Music/AliceInChains album ''Dirt'' essentially boils down to DrugsAreBad, it's still a pretty important message - especially considering what ended up happening to poor Layne Staley.

* "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H9EvnVCfHUQ Politically Correct]]" by SR-71 tells how rampant political correctness can cause someone to be unable to connect to anyone and be unable to see and understand other's opinions and is basically the same as living in constant fear of offending someone.

* "Me Me Me": "Me Me Me" is an anime music video that details the unhealthy [[LotusEaterMachine lifestyle]] of a {{hikikomori}}; Relationships can be scary, introducing yourself to someone can feel intimidating and love can be painful and draining for people who are new to them, regardless of age. However you can't hide yourself from the world nor can you outrun it. Websites and fiction are tailored to appeal your desires and fantasies rather than let you face a pressuring and somewhat scary world. The world isn't as scary or pessimistic as the media portrays it and real relationships provide a sense of depth, emotion and intimacy that cannot be replicated by fiction or fantasies.

* Music/RiseAgainst isn't a very subtle band, but that's the point.
** "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XP4clbHc4Xg Make It Stop]]" is the 9001 ton anvil that they felt needed to be dropped.

* "The Last Stop" by the Music/DaveMatthewsBand. It does not shy away from calling people who kill "in the name of God" out as the hypocritical asshats that they are.

** "Lyin' Eyes" - "Ain't it funny how your new life didn't change things? You're still the same old girl you used to be."

** "Get Over It" - QuitYourWhining in song form. Stop blaming your problems on everybody else, and quit looking for a FreudianExcuse, because [[FreudianExcuseIsNoExcuse that's not an excuse to not get better]]. If your life sucks, stop complaining and do something about it.

** "Already Gone" - "So often times it happens that we live our lives in chains, and we never even know we have the key"

** "When I'm Gone" says "Love your family and be there for your children, because they're the most important things in life."

* {{Music/Aurora}}'s song "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Mc_OM5oNA8 The Seed]]" takes as its chorus a paraphrase of the Creator/AlanisObomsawin quote "When the last tree is cut, the last river poisoned, and the last fish dead, we will discover that we can’t eat money". Heavy-handed? Sure. But in a world where the politicians in charge are mocking and belittling schoolchildren for wanting to fight for the environment, it's also a necessary reminder.

* The Antlers' album ''Music/{{Hospice}}'' drops an unsubtle but powerful anvil on abusive relationships, using the metaphor of a romance between a hospice worker and a cancer patient to show how sick, demeaning, and downright damaging they are. It also urges the listener not to buy into [[FreudianExcuse Freudian excuses]] too much. No matter how bad a life the abuser might've had (like the patient in the story), it still does not justify their abuse in any way, and it's wrong to put up with it because of that. A very depressing anvil, but a very important one, especially given that it's mostly autobiographical.

* Music/GamaBomb's "Metal Idiot": If you start to witness far-right elements infiltrating the scene, it's your responsibility to purge them by any means necessary and let them know that you know exactly what they're up to, and that they are not welcome.

* Music/TimMinchin's "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fHRDfut2Vx0 Pope Song]]" (warning: Very NSFW) does not mince words about his position on the child abuse scandals in the Catholic Church. The message is that if you are offended by [[ClusterFBomb the way]] he describes the Pope, but ''not'' by molesting priests and the Pope's cover-up and protection of said priests, then you ''seriously'' need to get your priorities straight.
** Similarly, "The Fence" points out that the world is not as [[AlwaysChaoticEvil black]] and [[AlwaysLawfulGood white]] as some would believe. Minchin takes the example of how "troops are good" and "paedophiles are evil", arguing that surely there is bound to be some overlap between the groups somewhere along the line, even if the latter is worse than the former.

* So Far Away by Music/AvengedSevenfold is not hesitant to show how painful it really is to lose your friend. They are just as important as your parents and without them, you'll feel lost and empty. It also shows that life it really is worth living and people should take care of others.