While this song sounds like it could be an attack on politicians, according to The Street Network, "Sons Of Plunder" finds Disturbed's David Draiman tackling the state of modern pop radio. Said the singer: "Every A&R guy and their mother is trying to jump on what they think is the next band to break, and flood the airwaves with the same bands that sound exactly the same as every other band in that respective genre. If 'Sons Of Plunder' ends up offending some of the sheep out there, oh, well. I don't care!"
In the lyrics, the "countless numbers" represent people making music to be famous, not people who are famous because they made music, and the "pimping sons of plunder" are the people who sign and record this fragile youth in an attempt to market them. The lyrics about "answers they don't even care to know" could be about how the band searches for depth and meaning in a song, but the record company doesn't really care about that... just the money.
Ten Thousand Fists, which places this cut at #7 on the track list, yielded five singles, including a cover of Genesis' "Land of Confusion" that went to #1 on the Mainstream Rock chart.
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