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Zack De La Rocha Is Finally About To Release Some New Music

thubmnail icon: Zack De La Rocha Is Finally About To Release Some New Music

It's not quite the DJ Shadow and ?uestlove collabing effort once promised, and it's nothing to do with those shelved Trent Reznor sessions, but whatever, Zack is officially ready to return to a recorded format near you. The project's dubbed One Day As A Lion, pulled from a tag in a 1970 photo by photographer George Rodriguez, and pairs Zack of the Rocha with ex-Mars Volta drummer Jon Theodore. It's been almost nine years since the ex-Rager's released a full-length of original material, and sorry it'll be a while longer still. But there is an EP coming later this month via Anti-. The only question left: is One Day As A Lion a warning delivered, or a promise kept? Zack writes:

one day as a lion is both a warning delivered and a promise kept.

Bingo, it's your two favorite things in music at once. More from the band's mission statement, posted at the duo's site:

a defiant affirmation of the possibilities that exist in the space between kick and snare. its a sonic reflection of the visceral tension between a picturesque fabricated cultural landscape , and the brutal socieconomic realities it attempts to mask. one day as a lion is a recorded interaction between Zach de la Rocha and Jon Thedore from Los Angeles, California

the name from the infamous 1970 black and white, captured by legendary chicano photographer george rodriguez featuring a center framed tag on a white wall in an unspecified section of Boyle Heights. it reads "it's better to live one day as a lion, than a thousand years as a lamb." this record is a stripped down attempt to realize this sentiment in sound

Here's a tracklist to help ease you out of that intense reading experience:

01 "Wild International"
02 "Ocean View"
03 "Last Letter"
04 "If You Fear Dying"
05 "One Day As A Lion"

One Day As A Lion is out 7/22 via Anti-. More pics from Rage's Coachella '07 set here.

Posted at 1:41 PM by amrit
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12 Comments

YES

Zack, we missed you. Audioslave's existence made it feel more like 90 years then 9.

Posted by: edgar allen bro at 07/02/08 2:33 PM | Reply
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YES

Zack, we missed you. Audioslave's existence made it feel more like 90 years than 9.

Posted by: edgar allen bro at 07/02/08 2:33 PM | Reply
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shameful grammar mistake= revealed via double post, sorry.

Posted by: edgar allen bro at 07/02/08 2:37 PM | Reply
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Well as long as it's a "warning delivered & a promise kept" instead of a realization that few people still care after being baited with too many promising unseen collaborations. I probably miss Jon Theodore more than de la Rocha.

Posted by: Chadams at 07/02/08 3:16 PM | Reply
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is El-P producing this thing?

Posted by: car carpet at 07/02/08 4:25 PM | Reply
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Besides the aforementioned Reznor, I'm hard-pressed to think of a worse lyricist/vocalist of the last 20 years than De La Rocha (maybe Cedric Bixler post-ATDI). If anything, the last eight years of Bush were bearable BECAUSE he wasn't around to spew his poor attempts at aping Noam Chomsky. Come wit it now!

Posted by: kidacomputerok at 07/02/08 4:32 PM | Reply
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kidacomputer ok: hard pressed? let me think....oh yeah....soulja boy....hes definitely not a worse lyricist than de la rocha

Posted by: Ian at 07/02/08 6:04 PM | Reply
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Soulja Boy is bad in a different way. You can tell he doesn't put in more than five minutes on his lyrics. Whereas De La Rocha probably thinks his shit should be put up in the Smithsonian. To me that makes it worse. The fact that he actually put that much effort into something so terrible.

Posted by: kidacomputerok in reply to Ian's comment at 07/02/08 6:43 PM | Reply
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Been waiting a long time for this moment. Here's hoping it lives up to all the expectations.

Posted by: James at 07/03/08 12:38 PM | Reply
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Will he actually do it? Will it be any good? Will anyone even care by then? The whole RATM reunion thing smelled more of Zack reading the writing on the wall that he fails on his own more than anything.

Posted by: Santi profile link at 07/13/08 2:16 AM | Reply
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some people want to hide behind lies but thats ok b/c alot of people removed the bullet from there heads

Posted by: tyler at 08/25/08 8:32 PM | Reply
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His message falls on deaf ears

Posted by: tommy at 12/06/08 10:52 AM | Reply
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