Metal Gear Rising: Revengeance - The Hot Wind Is Blowing Extended

Official Lyrics:
The hot wind blowing
Jagged lines across the sand

The crumbling buildings
In our minds are all that stand
Just like the buffalo
Blindly following the herd
We try to justify
All the things that have occurred

I don't know what I've been told
But the wishes of the people can't be controlled
I don't know what I've been told
But the wishes of the people can't be controlled

Heat of the desert
Dust settles on my face
Without a compass
The soldier knows no disgrace

Out of the ashes
The eagle rises still
Freedom is calling
To all men who bend their will

Here I am
Dirty and faceless
Waiting to heed your instruction

On my own
Invisible warrior
I am a wind of destruction

All men who bend their will

We fight for justice
In a forgotten place
Fulfill our duty
Then vanish without a trace

Don't need a medal
For all the men we kill
Freedom is calling
To all men who bend their will

Wind of destruction

mp3:

[justaserbiandoomer]

"Freedom can not be forced onto others, but rather earned."
-A fucking robotic chainsaw canine

[burgbass]

>Never shows up in the main game
>Only part of Bladewolf’s DLC
>Gets maybe like 3 minutes of cutscene screentime
>Shows up later with the most banging song in the entire game
>Dies and is never mentioned again

[averagetboihater]

I cannot believe that we hear the lines "Without a compass a soldier knows no disgrace" and "Freedom cannot be forced onto others, it must be earned" on a DLC where a robot chainsaw dog fights a cyborg broforce style soldier that's piloting a giant mecha robot body

[그냥사람-ef]

- is a DLC boss
- never showed up in the main game
- gets like 5 minutes of screen time
- all his coworkers hate him
- drops the hottest mixtape in the entire game
- refuses to elaborate
- dies

[IQPrower]

“Without a compass, a soldier knows no disgrace” is one of the most moving and philosophically provoking lyrics ever and its from a song played during a fight between an America Fuck Yeah guy in an exo suit fighting a robot dog with a chainsaw tail. I fucking love this game so much.

[dyer]

Khamsin:
-DLC BOSS
-All his Coworkers Hate Him
-Doesn't Even Understand His Own Ideology
-Eats Shit From A Robot That's Explicitly Said To Be Poor At Combat
-Drops The Sickest Track In The Whole Game
-Refuses To Elaborate

[phazon]

A freddy fazbear being deployed in Afghanistan meme really just led me to one of the best songs I've ever heard

[MazTheOriginalGod]

Metal Gear Ray: It fights because that's what it was designed to do.
Blade Wolf: It fights because it is forced to, even if it knows it is pointless.
Mistral: She fights because she wants to have a purpose, even if it is a wrong one.
Monsoon: He fights because only by fighting he feels something different to despair and emptiness.
Sundowner: He fights because he loves the chaos and thrill of the fight.
Sam: He fights because he wants to find someone better than him to fulfill his mission.
MG Excelsus: It is used to fight to expand the memes of the patriots.
Armstrong: He fights because he believes only by destroying everything can a new society raise.
Khamsin: He fights because he is a soldier and they are made to fight.

[eurobtcwby]

I'm just getting this now but Khamsin's theme literally says he's a wind of destruction, his song is about nameless soldiers following orders just to be forgotten, and he's not once mentioned by the other winds of destruction in the main game.

[umbaupause]

Plot twist: It's the theme of all the normal enemies you mow down.

[origamininja]

I just noticed this, probably a coincidence but the start of the game and the underlying beat is eerily similar to "The Unenlightened Masses/Colelctive Conciousness". Khasim's blind dedication and history of being a faceless and emotionless soldier who doesnt know his place among the others of desperado makes this make a whole lot of sense. He is a member of the unenlightened masses, a blind follower who cannot comprehend his status as a pawn in the grander game of desperado.

[alastor]

This song is dripping with irony, my favorite being the robotic voice for the line "I know what I've been told". God dog the writers are slick.

[Anonymous-]

Now this is the kinda music I wish more military shooters had.
Not just some victorious stock music, but a song that shows the true nature of being a soldier. That you’re not some war hero, just another man fighting for what they think is right, even if it’s not

[splitjawjanitor]

It's an interesting stance the game takes - that between being a monster who fully understands the harm they're causing and revelling in it, and being a soldier who has been suckered into doing so through propaganda and orders, it's the monster that's more respectable because they genuinely understand and believe in what they're fighting for.

[The.Reilly]

The Winds of Destruction
Mistral: Cold and dry strong wind in Southern France
Monsoon: Strong and wet tropical winds
Sundowner: Dangerous offshore wind in California
Minuano: Cool south-western Brazilian wind
Khamsin: Hot and dusty wind in North Africa

[pizzarelaguy]

I love how amazing these lyrics are
''Freedom is coming
To all men who bend their will''

[syndixel]

I think this song fits Raiden, Bladewolf, and Khamsin.
These three were brought to kill blindly without direction. Raiden as a child soldier, Bladewolf before joining Raiden, and Khamsin as a Wind of Destruction.

[morrighanlefaye]

There's a particular beauty in that this song is not a celebration of the character associated with it, but instead a dirge. This is not a triumphant battle theme like Jetstream Sam or Monsoon, but instead a complete and utter deconstruction of Khamsin as a pathetic, servile individual. This is not the battle anthem of a warrior, this is the song of a man who has committed unspeakable evil for reasons he can't even name, completely suckered in by years of propaganda, and he's about to die for it. This is him explaining his life to his killer, not boasting of his prowess.

He was a nameless, faceless goon enacting the whims of empire, he was told he was fighting for peace or justice when all he did was butcher innocents so the rich could get richer. Khamsin was someone sucked into the military-industrial complex and turned into a monster, whereas someone like Sundowner or Monsoon ALWAYS had that evil inside of them and simply had a chance to indulge in it.

[confusedcephalopod]

A chainsaw wielding philosophic robotic dog fights a military veteran crippled in combat who was given a mech suit as his wheelchair while rambling about how to force freedom onto others is punctuated by the coolest song about soldier dogma.

Fucking love this game

[LrdLexan]

MGR understands American nationalism and corporatism better than it has any right too