New One Day As A Lion (Zack de la Rocha, Jon Theodore) - "Wild International"
We got the heads up on new music from Zack a few weeks ago, when he and ex-Mars Volta drummer Jon Theodore announced their One Day As A Lion project and self-titled EP along with the band bio "one day as a lion is both a warning delivered and a promise kept." That's incomplete, though. Our modified version reads "one day as a lion is a warning delivered and a promise kept and by promise we mean promise to appeal to fans of rage against the machine." It's not like we were expecting Zack to unveil an eight octave vocal range or offer a love song, but ODAAL's premiere single "Wild International" falls squarely within the realm de la expectation: still that ratatating delivery, still those allusions to class struggles, politics, and religion, etc. That said it's great if you dig Zack's flow, Theodore brings a fat backbeat, and it takes a certain something to successfully work "Muhammad and Christ" into a song hook. Hear it at MySpace.
The five-track One Day As A Lion EP is out 7/22 via Anti-.
Posted at 11:35 AM by amrit
Tags: Jon Theodore | One Day As A Lion | Rage Against The Machine | Zack De La Rocha
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I think Zack's flow is pretty tight on those verses. I liked it.
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It's nice, but seriously, it took him this long to release a new song apart from Rage?
And it sounds...just like Rage.
Better late than never I guess.
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He released that song with DJ Shadow a while ago, Death March, or something like that. It was really good. I'm more surprised that he got arguably the best drummer ever and the drums are pretty basic.
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Sony shelved Zach for several years under a contract...he couldn't realese his arsonal until now I think...?
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Damn man. I love it. I was a huge Rage fan back in the day... and it's nice to hear something newand fresh from Zack.
I'll be making a puchase on the 22nd! ;-)
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it's better to live one day as zack de la rocha than a thousand years as audioslave.
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this is fuckiing awesome
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