Unmarked Graves
2006 · Relapse RR 6675 · Maryland
- Artist
- Misery Index
- Title
- Unmarked Graves
- Release
- Discordia
- Year
- 2006
- Label
- Relapse # RR 6675
- Format
- Album
- Country
- Maryland, USA
- Genre
- Metal · Death Metal
- Primary theme
- Post-War
Annotation
Death Metal band, formed in 2001 in Baltimore, Maryland, USA, with a revolving line-up, lead by Jason Netherton. The song "Unmarked Graves" (Relapse Records # RR 6675) referenced multiple conflicts and war crimes / massacres, including the My Lai Massacre - the mass murder of between 300-500 civilians in the South Vietnamese area known as "Pinkville", containing the hamlets, known as My Lai 4 and My Khe 4, and throughout the area of Song My, by US forces on 16 March 1968: "From Nanking to Mỹ Lai, from Srebrenica to Algiers... their spirit lives in defiance of it all". It also referred to multiple genocides throughout history, such as Wounded Knee Massacre (1890) in North America, the Srebrenica massacre (1995), part of the Bosnian War, and The Darfur genocide (2003-present), part of the War in Darfur.
Annotation by Justin A. Brummer
Annotation — My Lai & Lt. William Calley Songs
Death Metal band, formed in 2001 in Baltimore, Maryland, USA, with a revolving line-up, lead by Jason Netherton. The song "Unmarked Graves" (Relapse Records # RR 6675) referenced multiple conflicts and war crimes / massacres, including the My Lai Massacre: "From Nanking to Mỹ Lai, from Srebrenica to Algiers... their spirit lives in defiance of it all". It also referred to multiple genocides throughout history, such as Wounded Knee Massacre (1890) in North America, the Srebrenica massacre (1995), part of the Bosnian War, and The Darfur genocide (2003-present), part of the War in Darfur.
Annotation by Justin A. Brummer
About the artist
Death Metal band, formed in 2001 in Baltimore, Maryland, USA, with a revolving line-up, led by Jason Netherton.
Themes
My Lai · Genocide · Vietnam Analogy · Bosnian War · Srebrenica Massacre · Tiananmen Square · Wounded Knee