“I Hate People” (featuring Wednesday 13) by Lord of the Lost arrives with unnerving precision by tapping directly into a rage that feels overdue especially in me. This isn’t a single source of anger be it political, feminine, or hormonal but a compounded fury that hums under the skin.
While the title suggests blunt nihilism, the song is far more pointed. What unfolds is a roll call of injustices that includes bigotry, misogyny, discrimination, the everyday cruelty, and casual violence aimed at those already bruised and worn down. The hatred isn’t for humanity as a whole, but for the systems, attitudes, behaviours, and the abuses that keep repeating without consequence.
The injustice roll call lands like clenched teeth rather than a sermon. Each line sharpens the blade, naming what deserves contempt without softening the message for comfort. There’s no moral grandstanding, just exhaustion curdled into anger. It’s the sound of being pushed past patience and deciding not to be polite about it anymore. It’s protest music stripped of optimism and fueled instead by survival and refusal.
The band musically meets that fury head on and it is a perfect collision of both Lord of the Lost and Wednesday 13. Chris Harms and Wednesday 13 form a gravel throated alliance with their voices scraping against each other until they blur into something feral and unified. Their gravel and sneer vocal tête-à-tête locks in the anger and frustration. The synths pulse with menace not malice, the rhythm section hits with a sense of urgency, and the guitars soar with purpose rather than flash. Lord of the Lost understands exactly how to weaponise lyrics but melody and they use structure and restraint to make the anger hit harder.
“I Hate People” turns shared anger into something cathartic, sharp, and unifying and while the song doesn’t offer release through destruction, it does offer recognition. It’s loud, tight, and unapologetically confrontational and is a song that doesn’t ask to be understood so much as it dares you to listen and to stand up to those injustices and perhaps in doing so, become a better human.
