The band's sound delves into heavy metal on "Pig is a Pig", which summarizes some of the album's comments on religion and government, while the Kottonmouth Kings' guest spot on "Drug Dealing God" adds funk to CA's industrial sound, the subject coming to the governments' futile quest to criminally prosecute men for growing, harvesting and cultivating cannabis, since marijuana is a naturally growing plant species.Ĭorporate Avenger tackles organized religion quite a bit, sometimes overlapping with their political commentary, as in "Fault the Police" with it's comments on Jihadism and Islam, or "Christians Murdered Indians", which addresses 500 years of Christianity's violence against Native Americans, obliterating the culture and identity of American Indians, when Christians didn't "chop off their heads" when they resisted assimilation into Christianity, among other striking lyrics including the line "I see blood on the hands of the master race".
"Voting Doesn't Work" is a criticism of American democracy, arguing that voting is ultimately futile because if the politicians don't like what Americans vote for, they'll use the power of the Supreme Court to get their agendas pushed, serving a ruling class rather than American citizens. "Taxes Are Stealing" eviscerates the IRS, calling taxes "strong-armed robbery", saying that the government ignores it's citizens' needs while stealing from them whenever they want to, upon threat of locking Americans away in prisons funded by the money stolen from them via taxation. "FBI File" pretty broadly trashes the federal bureau, with an emphasis on the War on Drugs, a relic of the Nixon administration that as of 2020 *still hasn't ended*, but also references the FBI having a file on John Lennon, and calls for the release of Native American activist Leonard Peltier, who was sentenced to two consecutive terms of life imprisonment for first-degree murder of two Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) agents, despite being innocent. The song's lyrics draw comparisons between government and organized religions, saying that both are at fault for what is blamed on police officers who commit acts of brutality and Islamic terrorists, both of which, according to this song, "enforce rules made by fools".
This 2001 album from the post-9/11 era remains relevant as ever, opening up the set with "Fault the Police (I Don't)". Corporate Avenger, consisting of punk singer Patrick Dubar and Spike Xavier (brother of one of the Kottonmouth Kings), speaks out on assorted sociopolitical and religious issues against a trippy backdrop of industrial beats, assorted samples and eerie psychedelic synthesizer riffs.
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