Forbidden

Forbidden Official Music Video for “Mutually Assured Dysfunction”


Release Date: October 2, 2025
Produced by Craig Locicero, Chris Kontos & Zack Ohren
Recorded and mixed by Zack Ohren at Shark Bite Studios
All Lyrics and Music by Forbidden

FORBIDDEN:
Norman Skinner / vocals
Craig Locicero / guitar
Daniel “Chewy” Mongrain / guitar
Matt Camacho / bass
Chris Kontos / drums

Directed by:
Mike Sloat

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Lyrics:

Welcome to this approved state of madness
Where meaningless rhetoric’s on the rise
Quick sign up now, while we’re still allowed
A fire sale on pretext and disorder

Words ringing empty in this land of plenty
Bias, exaggeration, the unforgiving expectation

Human nature burned in effigy

Take your turn, another verbal shootout
Self-importance and status the prize
True to the cause, ignore the cost
There’s no way to save yourself if you’re burning it all down

Into the mouths of lions we will stride
Eyes wide shut we happily abide
Blurring lines between told truths and lies
Mutually assured dysfunction
Mutually assured dysfunction

Both side’s committed
Absurd atrocities, until unhidden
The Never-changing
Only the puppeteer is laughing now

It’s the hypocrite who’s first to point out
Only the fires they did not light
Who’s fault this time? Relabeled crime
Ignore the stones raining down on your glass house

Words ringing empty in this land of plenty
Bias, exaggeration, the unforgiving expectation

Into the mouths of lions we will stride
Eyes wide shut we happily abide
Blurring lines between told truths and lies
Mutually assured dysfunction
Mutually assured dysfunction
Mutually assured destruction