Line #10 RoaringRampageOfRevenge/Music


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2	* The Swiss-German Neue Deutsche Härte band, Metallspürhunde, has a song called 'Aus Dem Schatten' (Out of the Shadows) which is about a guy who has a long list of enemies who have made him feel alienated. And now he's going to pick them off one by one.
3	* Music/DoctorSteel's ''Lament for a Toy Factory''.
4	* Dutch symphonic metal band Music/WithinTemptation:
5	** "The Promise": a woman's lover/husband is murdered, so she takes it upon herself to hunt down and kill everybody involved in his death.
6	--->''I made a promise to avenge his soul in time\
7	I'll make them bleed down at my feet''
8	** "Murder" from their album ''The Unforgiving'', which marks the point where the album's protagonist goes, well, murderous on those responsible for what happened to the person she was trying to save in ''Lost.''
9	--->''I'm killing them all, I'll put my soul on the line,\
10	I'll purify sins that I committed in life.\
11	I'll follow them all, and I'll be bringing them down;\
12	Wherever they go, I'm right behind\
13	There's nowhere to go, your head on the line;\
14	There is no rope, you're running out of time.\
15	So where will you go when I will murder your soul?''
16	* Angtoria's "Six Feet Under", while not necessarily implying a [=RRoR=] itself, certainly implies the singer might want one and is likely the sentiment accompanying or driving many of the [=RRoRs=] listed on this page. Whoever is the intended recipient of the lyrics "I'll dance on your grave until my feet bleed, six feet under's where you'll rot," followed by "We'll spit on your grave until your soul screams, six feet under's not deep enough" is quite likely deserving of a [=RRoR=], at least in the songwriter's eyes.
17	* Music/{{Chevelle}}'s "The Red". It's not completely clear, but it certainly sounds like it. For your estimation:
18	-->''They said 'Freak', when you're singled out / The Red / Well it filters through/ So lay down, the threat is real / When his sight goes red again.''
19	* "Am I Evil?" is the bloody revenge driven epic by Music/DiamondHead, memorably covered by Music/{{Metallica}}. After the [[BurnTheWitch burning of the main character's mother as a witch]], he goes on a quest to brutally murder and [[JackBauerInterrogationTechnique torture]] everyone he can that was involved. And even very early on he understands that in doing so [[HeWhoFightsMonsters he has become the very type of monster that he is hunting]]. Eventually he succeeds but loses himself in the process.
20	* The fifth song on Music/TheProtomen's original CD "Vengeance" is basically where Megaman heads on a beeline for Wily's fortress and tears through virtually every robot there on his very own RoaringRampageOfRevenge for [[spoiler:Wily having killed his brother before him, Protoman.]] [[spoiler: Actually it turns out Protoman was reconstructed by Wily later and turned evil]]. Uhm, woah.
21	-->''Send me the best you've got/Send me your strongest machine''
22	-->''The fight my brother fought/Here, now, will end with me''
23	-->''Is this the best you've got?/Is this your strongest machine?''
24	-->''Now with one powershot/You'll see what vengeance means!''
25	** A better example would be:
26	-->''All you wounded!''
27	-->''And those of you who can!''
28	-->''Hurry back, tell your leader!''
29	-->''YOU'LL NEED MORE MEN!''
30	* Music/NickCaveAndTheBadSeeds' song "Crow Jane" (not much connection to the Skip James song of the same name) is about a woman who gets gang-raped by a bunch of miners from the local town. So she stocks up on guns and kills them all.
31	* The alien metal band Music/{{GWAR}} got revenge on their cosmic master, and now seeks to destroy the human race for being annoying creatures.
32	* Music/{{Black Sabbath}}'s song "Iron Man" definitely counts:
33	-->''Now the time is here''
34	-->''For Iron Man to spread fear''
35	-->''Vengeance from the grave''
36	-->''Kills the people he once saved!''
37	* Music/{{Slayer}}'s "Raining Blood" tells the story of a soul that was cast out of Heaven and seeks revenge. Eventually, he gains it, and reigns in blood.
38	* Music/{{Manowar}}'s "Dark Avenger" is about a character whose unjust suffering has been noted by the gods, so he is sent back from Hades to take vengeance both for himself and for every other unavenged soul.
39	* Music/DefLeppard's "Die Hard The Hunter" tells the story of a war veteran who succumbs to PTSD and goes on a murderous rampage.
40	* Music/KennyRogers' "Coward of the County." After spending 20 years turning the other cheek and ignoring their taunts, the Gatlin boys think Tommy's such a wimp they decide to gang rape his girlfriend. For bonus points, when he confronts them in the bar, he turns around and they mock him thinking he's running away. ''He's locking the door so they can't escape.'' At the end, he's the only one left standing.
41	* "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u0FioxbBI68 Strength of the World]]" by Music/AvengedSevenfold:
42	-->''Avenge the dead killed all who crossed me in my path''
43	-->''Suicidal, I never planned on coming back''
44	-->''I want it, I need it, revenge is dripping from my teeth''
45	-->''Need nothing, to feel power, and bring the killers to their knees''
46	-->''Nothing to lose vengeance to gain (you know I'll never be the same)''
47	-->''So taste my breath I'm close behind you (so desperate on your final day)''
48	* New Model Army's "Vengeance", from the title onwards, is almost the pure musical distillation of this trope...
49	-->''Top-dog fascist gets the boys in the corner''
50	-->''Plants poison where there was just confusion''
51	-->''Walks away scot-free and laughing''
52	-->''Rides on the tide as the cancer grows''
53	-->''And the business man on corruption charges''
54	-->''With millions of dollars in dirty money''
55	-->''Gets just a thousand pound fine off the mugs in court''
56	-->''While the lawyers get fat and the law gets bought''
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58	-->''I believe in Justice''
59	-->''I believe in Vengeance''
60	-->''I believe in getting the bastard...''
61	* ''The Wedding List'' by Music/KateBush
62	-->''You've made a wake of our honeymoon,''
63	-->''And I'm coming for you!''
64	* The music video for LOLO's "Hit and Run" depicts the singer hunting down and killing a group of three men (plus one bystander who pulled a gun on her). It's revealed at the end that [[spoiler:they raped and killed her sister]].
65	* In Music/{{Marillion}}'s epic ''Grendel'', the eponymous being takes his bloody revenge:
66	-->So you thought that your bolts and your locks would keep me out
67	-->You should have known better after all this time
68	-->You're gonna pay in blood for all your vicious slander
69	-->With your ugly pale skins and your putrid blue eyes
70	-->(snip for brevity)
71	-->Well I've had enough of all your pretty pretty speeches
72	-->Receive your punishment, Expose your throats to my righteous claws
73	-->And let the blood flow, and let the blood flow, flow, flow, flow
74	* The second verse of Dan le sac vs. Scroobius Pip's ''YOU WILL SEE ME'' discusses the [[FreudianExcuse a spurned lover's]] planned retribution against his ex which involves [[DisproportionateRetribution ruining the entire world]]:
75	-->''I will make rivers run red in your anonymity''
76	-->''The screams of nations will echo our affinity''
77	-->''My wrath will be relentless''
78	-->''My path of destruction will be momentously momentous''
79	-->''I will change the face of history and paint it in my likeness''
80	-->''And I will like this''
81	-->''I will destroy everything that you hold dear''
82	-->''By simply destroying everything far and near''
83	-->''My footsteps will be impossible not to hear''
84	-->''I will watch you from afar and taste each tear''
85	-->''I will wipe out entire races''
86	-->''I will erase faces and displace with great haste and no graces''
87	-->''This world will become my plaything''
88	-->''Embracing my ways and then just breaking''
89	-->''I will burn this entire world to the ground''
90	-->''I will leave a mark greater than any have ever left before''
91	-->''I will lay waste by land, air and sea''
92	-->''And you will see me''
93	* This is the motivation of the Shark Fighter from the song of the same name by ''Music/TheAquabats''
94	-->''I had a girl who was precious to me\
95	But a shark took her away, you see\
96	Now I fight sharks not for money\
97	But for love!\
98	(And that ain't funny, yo)''
99	* The [[UsefulNotes/AmericanCivilWar Civil War-era]] Union patriotic song "Marching Through Georgia" is a celebration of General William T. Sherman's infamous "March to the Sea", where he marched his army 300 miles through the industrial and economic heartland of the Confederate States of America, destroying the CSA's ability to wage war and gutting the slavers' resistance to the Union's soon-to-be victorious armies.
100	-->''"Sherman's dashing Yankee boys will never reach the coast!"\
101	So the saucy rebels said and 'twas a handsome boast,\
102	But they had forgot - Alas! - to reckon with the Host,\
103	While we were marching through Georgia!''
104	--->''Hurrah! Hurrah! We bring the jubilee,\
105	Hurrah! Hurrah! The flag that makes you free,\
106	So we sang the chorus from Atlanta to the sea,\
107	While we were marching through Georgia!''
108	* The whole idea behind the music video for Music/{{Rihanna}}'s "Bitch Better Have My Money" is her getting revenge on a shady accountant (played by Creator/MadsMikkelsen) who left her bankrupt.[[note]]She was embattled in some shady accounting in real life, sued the firm responsible and won.[[/note]] So she enlists two minions to kidnap his wife and torments her by stripping her naked, making her seasick, and drugging her until he pays up. When that failed, she tracks him down at home, brings his wife back naked in a trunk, and tortures him Dexter-style. The video ends with Rihanna lighting up a joint while lying naked on a chest of money...and covered in blood.
109	* Alluded to in Music/{{Sabaton}}'s "Winged Hussars":
110	-->Cannonballs are coming down from the sky.\
111	Janissaries, are you ready to die?\
112	We will take our vengeance! Eye for an eye!
113	** Also the title track of "The Last Stand", though the song itself is from the perspective of the revenge-takers' enemies.
114	** "Attero Dominatus" from the album of the same name depicts the Soviet Army's [[RapePillageAndBurn sack of Berlin]] at the end of UsefulNotes/WorldWar2 in revenge for everything they had suffered at the hands of the Nazis during Operation Barbarossa.
115	** "Aces in Exile" describes the Polish and Czech pilots who fled the invasion of their homeland taking their revenge on the Germans during the Battle of Britain.
116	** "In the Name of God" has the United States vowing to hunt down bin Laden and Al Qaeda after 9/11 and destroy their home.
117	-->Captured in all your lies, fear is in your eyes\
118	Creature who's gone insane, your war is in vain\
119	Trapped in a cave of stone, we'll destroy your home\
120	Consequence of your actions!
121	* Music/TomWaits' "Black Wings" (off of ''Music/BoneMachine'') is about an AmbiguouslyHuman creature ([[AngelUnaware possibly an angel]]) who, it is implied, is killing people for this reason, though we're given few details.
122	-->Well take an eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth\
123	Just like they say in Literature/TheBible\
124	Never leave a trace or forget a face\
125	Of any man at the table

Context RoaringRampageOfRevenge / Music