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Yeah, yikes. Thanks for letting me know.
I listened to them and saw some appeal to them as a straight edge vegan myself, but I find that the combination of straight edge and vegan somehow blends into fascism often, hence the hardline culture coming into play. I wasn't an overwhelmingly crazy fan, but I don't feel comfortable listening to them at all now. Granted, sometimes, I can separate art from the artist, but not if it's an artist who I saw overwhelming appeal to in terms of their ideas, and on top of that, is effectively fascist.
Veganism is obviously based, but it seems like many of their ideas are at odds with human liberation, and remember, humans are also animals.
I disagree, lyrics to this song and firestorm seem pretty forward straight edge.
Can you really excuse the part of the lyrics I posted?
edit: Guess I'll take this opportunity to point out the funniest Earth Crisis lyric, from the song Mechanism off the album Slither (AKA their nu-metal album with the cringiest raps in existence):
Incoherent really is too mild of a word to describe a band who believes you should destroy animal testing facilities and also defends capitalism because muh human nature.
I think most of the firestorm lyrics seem to be about drug use? E.g. chemically tainted, d*, etc all seem to be in reference to drug use ("corrupt politicians, drug lords, dealers..."). You said it seems fascisty but maybe I'm not seeing it, it all seems vegan straight edge to me.