Torn From the Headlines is where we showcase videos that, in the vein of Childish Gambino's powerful "This Is America", offer commentary on the state of the world. And, well, given the current state of the world, things could get dark, but we'll try to lighten the mood with the odd bit of social satire as well.

Greta Thunberg is a divisive figure. The 16-year-old environmental crusader has been called a "mentally ill child" by Fox News pundits and has managed to earn the irrational ire of mostly old white dudes everywhere. At the same time, Thunberg has galvanized a new generation of climate-change activists. Her impassioned address to the U.N.'s Climate Action Summit in New York City on September 23 gave both her supporters and her detractors plenty of fresh material to work with. 

I don't know where John Meredith falls on that spectrum, but the New York–based musician (who goes by the YouTube handle "John Mollusk") set Thunberg's words to, appropriately enough, Swedish-style death metal. And the results are awesome:

For the record, here is the part of Thunberg's address that Mollusk used:

My message is that we'll be watching you. This is all wrong. I shouldn't be up here. I should be back in school on the other side of the ocean. Yet you all come to us young people for hope. How dare you! You have stolen my dreams and my childhood with your empty words. And yet I'm one of the lucky ones. People are suffering. People are dying. Entire ecosystems are collapsing. We are in the beginning of a mass extinction, and all you can talk about is your money and fairy tales of eternal economic growth. How dare you! For more than 30 years, the signs have been crystal clear. How dare you continue to look away and come here saying that you're doing enough, when the politics and solutions needed are still nowhere in sight. You say you hear us and that you understand the urgency. But no matter how sad and angry I am, I do not want to believe that. Because if you really understood the situation and still kept on failing to act, then you would be evil. And that I refuse to believe.

While you're in a head-banging mood, check out Meredith's band, Suaka, which draws inspiration from its members' Indonesian roots: