Dead Animal Assembly Plant are Zach ‘Dead’ Wager (Vocals), Rebecca ‘Buzz’ Wager (Guitars), Nick ‘Nix’ Snyder (Bass) and Jason ‘Skorn’ Moore (Drums). They formed in Portland, Oregon, USA in 2007, initially as a solo project for Zach Wager. They became a full band in 2011. Their influences seem to be drawn from a wide range of iconic bands and artists; Nine Inch Nails, Gary Numan, Slipknot and Rob Zombie to name just a few. They released a new single today, called “The Only Good Dictator Is A Dead Dictator” and it is an oven ready classic. It oozes dark industrial riffs, passionate maniacal musings, huge planet splitting drums and a perfect message for these times. Is the song directed at the Orange Turd in the White House? Probably, but it would also easily apply to the likes of Putin, Kim Jog Un and many others. The lyrics are a succinct reflection on what much of this supposedly modern world has become. “Now we’re choking as they’re stoking, All the pretty wars. We can’t decide which genocide we should be rooting for” Those lines pull no punches and that is what makes this song work so well.
Zach Wager said this about the song “his song “It is aggressive from tonality to message. The song underlines society’s complicity towards totalitarianism and how we are controlled through fabricated fears and toxic vitriol spewed by those in power. The cyclical nature of humans falling for the lies and promises of dictators. It’s a tale we’ve spun over and over and yet it continues to happen. Doing the same thing over and over expecting different results. In the end – the only good dictator no matter who or where – is a dead dictator. Anyone who desires that much abusive power is a blight on humanity and the world is better off without tyrants.” There is no doubt in my mind that Zach Wager is bang on and this song nails the message home wonderfully. This will be one of the first songs I play when I hear the news that the vile orange arsehole a.k.a. Captain Bone Spurs has died.
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