Chokehold - Content With Dying

Album : Content with dying LP - Great American Steak Religion ( 1995 )


Lyrics : Somewhere along this line we were stripped of identity, creativity developed this sheep mentality of following everything cultureless we are entertained by senseless sitcoms and infomercials. It angers me to see a nation reduced to a full scale game of follow the leader. They have us fooled reaching for the amerikkkan dream. Trapped in the 9-5 its like swimming upstream. Do as they tell you forethought is bound to fail. We are dying and no one seems to care. To busy rushing to a go no-where career. You think youre free? You just cant see the bars were all in prison in these free countries of ours. Your not freeyou never were

Chokehold
Biography
Chokehold were a vegan straight edge hardcore band hailing from Hamilton, Ontario in Canada. They first formed in 1990, releasing the More Than Ever demo tape in 1991. This was quickly followed in 1992 by a split EP with Crisis of Faith and the Life Goes On EP that same year. The band was soon renowned as one of the heaviest in hardcore, drawing ire from some purists for incorporating metal riffage into their sound. Their rise in popularity paralleled that of other vegan straight edge bands such as Earth Crisis and hardline bands like Vegan Reich and Raid. While bands that adhered to Hardline were totally opposed to abortion, Chokehold was vehemently pro-choice. While Chokehold were atheists and radicals with a strongly anarchist streak to their politics, many of the hardline bands were by contrast conservative (expressing belief in a higher power, homophobia, support for the death penalty and prisons and other conservative views).
In 1993 Chokehold released the Prison of Hope LP through American label Conquer the World Records (CTW). They released their next record, 1994s Instilled EP, on Philadelphia, PAs Bloodlink Records. This EP featured some of their most powerful and political material to date, notably the anti-religious song Anchor, the anti-homophobia song Mindset, and Burning Bridges, with its hard-hitting lyrics: The corporations are aware where the average person is not, violence against one meat eater is not going to liberate a million animals. You must take action against those who run the industry, not the ones lied to. And to take them down we must use as much fucking violence as they do. Animal liberation, Earth liberation, Human liberation, will only come through education.
They followed this in the next year with their second LP, Content With Dying. This album contained by far their most controversial song yet: Not a Solution was possibly the most militantly pro-choice hardcore song since Born Againsts Mary and Child. The liner notes to the song state, to all the militant pro-lifers who couldnt spell life let alone understand it, we salute you with a middle finger. The song is directed at those who identify as pro-lifers, including many vegan straight edge bands at the time, most notably Abnegation. This song in particularly created a huge rift in the vegan straight edge scene. When Chokehold played a show with Abnegation that year, the two bands spent their sets screaming at each other, and they and their fans nearly came to blows. This refusal to back down in the face of significant opposition even within their own subculture typifies Chokeholds uncompromising stance in general.
They signed in 1996 to Germanys Mad Mob Records, who unbeknownst to them already had a bad reputation in the European hardcore scene. They recorded four new songs to be released as a split CD with Feeding the Fire, but after a European tour in 1996 the band decided to break up. They played their last show in March at the New Bedford Fest in Massachusetts. These four songs were released as a self-titled EP on Jawk Records the following year. Members went on to play in such bands as The Swarm, Brutal Knights, Left For Dead, Haymaker, Our War and Seventy-Eight Days.

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[rere989375]

My eighth grade civics teacher recomended me this band

[xPValldayx]

You gonna stay in line? Content with dying?

[xcesar4impx666]

awesome .,.... hate breed and got shit on this dudes and most def ,educated as far as lyrics ,,,,,

[anggoodbuddy]

I lost this CD many years ago. I am extremely excited that it is on here.  Thank you. The whole CD has been stuck in my brain since i was 17 (now 34).

[ReligionPutrifies]

love it, this was what i grew up listening to! flashback to when i was 15 yrs old (30 now)

[warxfish]

Freedom doesn't come from 9 to 5. Freedom is at our disposal. Shut up and stay in line. It's hard to be content with dying.

[Airsoftgunkid]

Sick dudes! These guys tell it like it is!

[jakemhibbs]

Can somebody please post the "We're not gonna take it" cover these guys did? That would make me the happiest guy in the world.

[intrudersdiehard]

thank you for posting this, the greatest hardcore band ever

[llewehtnosiop]

amazing  band. I saw them years ago....their last tour. No one will ever see a band this great again!!! Did I mention amazing!!!