Metal Anarchy

Scott Morrow (Alarm Magazine) has launched a new “super-collective” called Plutocracy Planet. The group’s self-titled debut album will be released on July 12.

Here’s a list of contributors:

• Bob Nanna (Braid, Hey Mercedes, Lifted Bells)
• Jonah Matranga (Far, Gratitude, onelinedrawing)
• Matt Pryor (The Get-Up Kids, The New Amsterdams, Radar State)
• Mike Kinsella (American Football, Owen, Cap’n Jazz)
• Liam Wilson (The Dillinger Escape Plan, Azusa
• Rody Walker (Protest The Hero)
• Carson Pace (The Callous Daoboys)
• Emily Jane White
• Mark Rose (Spitalfield)
• Swamburger (Solillaquists of Sound)
• Blueprint (Soul Position, Greenhouse)
• Jørgen Munkeby (Shining)
• Carla Kihlstedt (Sleepytime Gorilla Museum, Tin Hat Trio, Rabbit Rabbit Radio)
• Nils Frykdahl (Sleepytime Gorilla Museum, Faun Fables, Idiot Flesh)
• Aaron Spectre (Drumcorps)
• Bruce Lamont (Yakuza, Masonic Wave)
• Angela Mullenhour (Sybris, Touched by Ghoul, Pink Frost)
• Anton Patzner (Emily Jane White, Foxtails Brigade, Judgement Day)
• Jonathan Hischke (The Sound of Animals Fighting, Le Butcherettes, Hella, Anywhere)
• Jason Schimmel (Secret Chiefs 3, Estradasphere, Red Fiction)
• Adam Stacey (Igorrr, Secret Chiefs 3, Estradasphere)
• Jason Zdora (HeWhoCorrupts)
• Leyla I. Royale (Chicago Street Strings)

“Plutocracy Planet” Track Listing:

01. “Prologue”
02. “This Very Severity” (feat. Bob Nanna)
03. “But You Said” (fear. onelinedrawing)
04. “A Simple Refrain” (feat. Matt Pryor, Mike Kinsella & Swamburger)
05. “Commence Mutation” (feat. Carson Pace)
06. “Slaughterhouse Soliloquy” (feat. Swamburger & Drumcorps)
07. “War?” (feat. Rody Walker)
08. “True Crime” (feat. Angela Mullenhour)
09. “Hours and Hours” (Work Harder, Not Smarter) (feat. Mark Rose)
10. “Dance of the Downtrodden” (feat. Carla Kihlstedt, Nils Frykdahl & Jørgen Munkeby)
11. “Remain Silent” (feat. Emily Jane White, Blueprint & Bruce Lamont)
12. “Epilogue”

Morrow said the following about the project:

“It’s unbelievable to me that I get to work with the people on this album. I’ve been a fan—in many cases a super fan—of many of them for 20 to 25 years. It’s a mind-blowing honor that they said yes, and I still don’t really know how the hell I convinced them.”

A video for the effort’s first single, “This Very Severity” (feat. Bob Nanna), can be found below. Nanna commented:

“Working on the song was a bit cathartic for me, dealing with the massive amount of disturbing data we were all forced to consume from our homes in 2020. I felt like it took a major toll on our collective mental health, so being able to proclaim that I see it, it’s wrong, and I’m processing it like everyone else felt like necessary relief. Not much has changed, sadly, so it’s quite evergreen.

It was fun to be in the video as well, playing a diabolical newscaster. I haven’t done many music videos, so it’s always nice to get to show your face once in a while.”

Morrow added:

“Bob is fantastic with wordplay, and his subject matter for the song felt like the perfect ‘proof of concept’ for the first single. I love that he emphasized the recurrent nature of conmen and political bullshit, so I figured that a good concept for the video was Bob delivering the fucked-up news of the day while riffing on the sensationalistic, corporate, echo-chamber nature of modern news media. My favorite part of making the video actually was coming up with the fake headlines.”

[via Brooklyn Vegan]