TOM MORELLO
New album
THE ATLAS UNDERGROUND
Out October 12, 2018
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Continuing to push limits and prove the transformative power of rock ‘n roll, legendary musician Tom Morello of Rage Against The Machine, Audioslave and Prophets of Rage is set to release the most ambitious artistic effort of his storied career this fall with his forthcoming album The Atlas Underground on October 12 by Sony Music Australia.
Fans can get a sneak peek into the album with tracks We Don’t Need You ft. Vic Mensa & Battle Sirens ft. Knife Party, both of which are available now. In addition, Tom Morello was featured as a guest on Lars Ulrich’s Beats 1 show ‘It’s Electric’. The episode will re-air Sunday, July 29.
On The Atlas Underground, he paves a path into new sonic territory with the project’s breadth of talented collaborators – Marcus Mumford, Portugal. The Man, Bassnectar, the Wu-Tang Clan’s RZA and GZA, Vic Mensa, K.Flay, 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.
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The Atlas Underground will be available October 12.
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“The riffs and the beats led the way, but the extraordinary talents of the collaborators set my creativity into uncharted territory. I’ve been devoted both musically and as an activist to fighting injustice at every turn,” says Morello. “Amid this heightened sense of impending doom, it’s 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 Mike’s “Rabbit Revenge”, they convey the experiences of those less fortunate who were unable to speak up for themselves.
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THE ATLAS UNDERGROUND
TRACK LISTING:
01. Battle Sirens – Knife Party
02. Rabbit’s Revenge – ft. Bassnectar, Big Boi, and Killer Mike
03. Every Step That I Take – ft. Portugal. The Man and Whethan
04. We Don’t Need You – ft. Vic Mensa
05. Find Another Way – ft. Marcus Mumford
06. How Long – ft. Steve Aoki and Tim McIlrath (Rise Against)
07. Lucky One – ft. K.Flay
08. One Nation – ft. Pretty Lights
09. Vigilante Nocturno – ft. Carl Restivo
10. Where It’s At Ain’t What It Is – ft. Gary Clark Jr. and Nico Stadi
11. Roadrunner – ft. Leikeli47
12. Lead Poisoning – ft. GZA/RZA and Herobust
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AMNPLIY – CP
