What is is about iconic metropolis that make people require to destroy them ? Whether it ’s Godzilla curb stomping San Francisco or Tetsuo reintegrate Neo - Tokyo or gargantuan tentacle monsters molest the Brooklyn Bridge , our pop culture is completely transport with the destruction of our most illustrious monuments .
Why is that ? Is it the same instinctive impulsion that incites Kid to demolish their sand palace or is it the result of a more central rebellion against the status quo ? The latter seems more likely given rock and roll ’s well - documented uprising against all things “ The Man”—both physically and figuratively .
As Black Label Society ’s repair music video Concrete Jungle illustrates — with clear reference to GnR ’s earlier “ Welcome to the Jungle ” as well as bearing influences from Zakk Wilde ’s time thrum for Ozzy Osbourne — no monument can be considered secure when you find yourself entrap in an urban hellscape . [ iTunes – Spotify ]
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