Brutal
Provoking
Provoking adjective - Serving or likely to arouse a strong reaction.
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Brutal and provoking are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Brutal" instead an adjective "Provoking".
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- This means he has to make brutal decisions, including, at one point, setting off a volcano prematurely, causing the deaths of tens of thousands to avoid tens of thousands of additional deaths, and provoking a What the Hell, Hero?
Source: The Fettered - Discordance Axis's lyrics are usually very abstract and thought provoking, but their music is extremely brutal and cathartic, not to mention the lyrics are pretty much intelligible because the vocals are all inhuman shrieks.
Source: Lyrical Dissonance / Metal
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