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Legendary musician Tom Morello co-founder of Rage Against The Machine, Audioslave and Prophets of Rage is set to release the most ambitious artistic effort of his storied career yet. His brand new album, The Atlas Underground, will be released on October 12 through BMG Records.
Two of the album tracks, We Dont Need You ft. Vic Mensa & Battle Sirens ft. Knife Party, are available to download and listen to now. In addition, part one of Lars Ulrichs two-part Its Electric episode with Morello aired today on Beats 1, following Zane Lowes premiere of We Dont Need You. The second half of the interview will air on Sunday, August 5 at 11pm BST. Watch the full music video for the track hosted exclusively on Apple Music HERE.
Throughout his remarkable career, Morello has collaborated with everyone from Bruce Springsteen to Johnny Cash. On The Atlas Underground, he paves a path into new sonic territory with the projects breadth of talented collaborators Marcus Mumford, Portugal. The Man, Bassnectar, the Wu-Tang Clans RZA and GZA, Vic Mensa, , Big Boi, Gary Clark Jr., Pretty Lights, Killer Mike, Steve Aoki and Whethan among others transforming his sound into something even he could not have anticipated, blending Marshall stack riff-rock with the digital wizardry of EDM and hip-hop. Morello served as chief curator for the record, hand-picking and personally reaching out to the involved artists to recruit their efforts to the project. A full track listing is below.
The riffs and the beats led the way, but the extraordinary talents of the collaborators set my creativity into uncharted territory. Ive been devoted both musically and as an activist to fighting injustice at every turn, says Morello. Amid this heightened sense of impending doom, its now time to rally the troops in a last-ditch effort to save the planet, and our artistic souls. By challenging the boundaries of what music is and has sounded like before, you can open peoples eyes to changing the status quo in society.
Assembled across a variety of studios spanning multiple continents, Morello calls The Atlas Underground a clandestine sonic conspiracy of artists working in disparate locations toward a shared goal of creating a new genre of music. The lyrics often take the form of social justice ghost stories, and on tracks such as Bassnectar, Big Boi and Killer Mikes Rabbit Revenge and the RZA/GZA-featuring Lead Poisoning, they convey the experiences of those less fortunate who are unable to speak up for themselves.
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