Roaring Rampage Of Revenge / Music

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• 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.
• Doctor Steel's Lament for a Toy Factory.
• Dutch symphonic metal band Within Temptation:
  • "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.
    I made a promise to avenge his soul in time
    I'll make them bleed down at my feet
  • "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.
    I'm killing them all, I'll put my soul on the line,
    I'll purify sins that I committed in life.
    I'll follow them all, and I'll be bringing them down;
    Wherever they go, I'm right behind
    There's nowhere to go, your head on the line;
    There is no rope, you're running out of time.
    So where will you go when I will murder your soul?
• 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.
• Chevelle's "The Red". It's not completely clear, but it certainly sounds like it. For your estimation:
  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.
• "Am I Evil?" is the bloody revenge driven epic by Diamond Head, memorably covered by Metallica. After the burning of the main character's mother as a witch, he goes on a quest to brutally murder and torture everyone he can that was involved. And even very early on he understands that in doing so he has become the very type of monster that he is hunting. Eventually he succeeds but loses himself in the process.
• The fifth song on The Protomen'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 Roaring Rampage of Revenge for Wily having killed his brother before him, Protoman. Actually it turns out Protoman was reconstructed by Wily later and turned evil. Uhm, woah.
  Send me the best you've got/Send me your strongest machine
  The fight my brother fought/Here, now, will end with me
  Is this the best you've got?/Is this your strongest machine?
  Now with one powershot/You'll see what vengeance means!
  • A better example would be:
  All you wounded!
  And those of you who can!
  Hurry back, tell your leader!
  YOU'LL NEED MORE MEN!
• Nick Cave And The Bad Seeds' 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.
• The alien metal band GWAR got revenge on their cosmic master, and now seeks to destroy the human race for being annoying creatures.
• Black Sabbath's song "Iron Man" definitely counts:
  Now the time is here
  For Iron Man to spread fear
  Vengeance from the grave
  Kills the people he once saved!
• 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.
• 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.
• Def Leppard's "Die Hard The Hunter" tells the story of a war veteran who succumbs to PTSD and goes on a murderous rampage.
• Kenny Rogers' "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.
• "Strength of the World" by Avenged Sevenfold:
  Avenge the dead killed all who crossed me in my path
  Suicidal, I never planned on coming back
  I want it, I need it, revenge is dripping from my teeth
  Need nothing, to feel power, and bring the killers to their knees
  Nothing to lose vengeance to gain (you know I'll never be the same)
  So taste my breath I'm close behind you (so desperate on your final day)
• New Model Army's "Vengeance", from the title onwards, is almost the pure musical distillation of this trope...
  Top-dog fascist gets the boys in the corner
  Plants poison where there was just confusion
  Walks away scot-free and laughing
  Rides on the tide as the cancer grows
  And the business man on corruption charges
  With millions of dollars in dirty money
  Gets just a thousand pound fine off the mugs in court
  While the lawyers get fat and the law gets bought

  I believe in Justice
  I believe in Vengeance
  I believe in getting the bastard...
• The Wedding List by Kate Bush
  You've made a wake of our honeymoon,
  And I'm coming for you!
• 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 they raped and killed her sister.
• In Marillion's epic Grendel, the eponymous being takes his bloody revenge:
  So you thought that your bolts and your locks would keep me out
  You should have known better after all this time
  You're gonna pay in blood for all your vicious slander
  With your ugly pale skins and your putrid blue eyes
  (snip for brevity)
  Well I've had enough of all your pretty pretty speeches
  Receive your punishment, Expose your throats to my righteous claws
  And let the blood flow, and let the blood flow, flow, flow, flow
• The second verse of Dan le sac vs. Scroobius Pip's YOU WILL SEE ME discusses the a spurned lover's planned retribution against his ex which involves ruining the entire world:
  I will make rivers run red in your anonymity
  The screams of nations will echo our affinity
  My wrath will be relentless
  My path of destruction will be momentously momentous
  I will change the face of history and paint it in my likeness
  And I will like this
  I will destroy everything that you hold dear
  By simply destroying everything far and near
  My footsteps will be impossible not to hear
  I will watch you from afar and taste each tear
  I will wipe out entire races
  I will erase faces and displace with great haste and no graces
  This world will become my plaything
  Embracing my ways and then just breaking
  I will burn this entire world to the ground
  I will leave a mark greater than any have ever left before
  I will lay waste by land, air and sea
  And you will see me
• This is the motivation of the Shark Fighter from the song of the same name by The Aquabats!
  I had a girl who was precious to me
  But a shark took her away, you see
  Now I fight sharks not for money
  But for love!
  (And that ain't funny, yo)
• The 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.
  "Sherman's dashing Yankee boys will never reach the coast!"
  So the saucy rebels said and 'twas a handsome boast,
  But they had forgot - Alas! - to reckon with the Host,
  While we were marching through Georgia!

  Hurrah! Hurrah! We bring the jubilee,
  Hurrah! Hurrah! The flag that makes you free,
  So we sang the chorus from Atlanta to the sea,
  While we were marching through Georgia!
• The whole idea behind the music video for Rihanna's "Bitch Better Have My Money" is her getting revenge on a shady accountant (played by Mads Mikkelsen) who left her bankrupt.^note She was embattled in some shady accounting in real life, sued the firm responsible and won. 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.
• Alluded to in Sabaton's "Winged Hussars":
  Cannonballs are coming down from the sky.
  Janissaries, are you ready to die?
  We will take our vengeance! Eye for an eye!
  • Also the title track of "The Last Stand", though the song itself is from the perspective of the revenge-takers' enemies.
  • "Attero Dominatus" from the album of the same name depicts the Soviet Army's sack of Berlin at the end of World War 2 in revenge for everything they had suffered at the hands of the Nazis during Operation Barbarossa.
  • "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.
  • "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.
  Captured in all your lies, fear is in your eyes
  Creature who's gone insane, your war is in vain
  Trapped in a cave of stone, we'll destroy your home
  Consequence of your actions!
• Tom Waits' "Black Wings" (off of Bone Machine) is about an Ambiguously Human creature (possibly an angel) who, it is implied, is killing people for this reason, though we're given few details.
  Well take an eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth
  Just like they say in The Bible
  Never leave a trace or forget a face
  Of any man at the table
• Dar Williams' "Flinty Kind Of Woman" is about the local moms going on a Pedo Hunt, cornering the perpetrator in a cranberry bog, and inflicting possibly a Fate Worse than Death on him, going by how she specifies they didn't tell the men who would Just Shoot Him.