Power Trip have dropped a new song titled “Executioner’s Tax (Swing Of The Axe)“. You can find a stream of that below with the band’s new album “Nightmare Logic” arriving on February 24th. Vocalist Riley Gale says the track was written regarding:
“Christian European countries where it was common for the person sentenced to death to have a chance to repent. If they did, they were given a bag of coins, silver or alike. For if they were particularly vile or the executioner felt lazy, it may take more than one swing of that axe to get that person’s head off and that kind of death is certainly one you’d want to be as painless as possible.
Hence, the Executioner’s Tax to ensure a strong, lights out kinda death. It’s more subtly an allegory about that being the motive for a lot of people these days and how the people that feed and heal us (The Executioner and The Priest). They love to get us addicted, fat, sick – so they can feed us, medicate us and nearly quite literally kill many of us.
We pay for pleasure of making it taste good or being numb to it all. We are all slowly paying our way out and our lives are built around the Executioner’s Tax – hopefully going out quick and easy. We subconsciously crave for our end, a spoiled one.”
In other news, the band have lined up more dates, their schedule includes:
With Iron Reagan:
02/24 Houston, TX – Walter’s
02/25 New Orleans, LA – Siberia
02/26 Birmingham, AL – Saturn
02/27 Raleigh, NC – King’s (feat. Genocide Pact)
02/28 Richmond, VA – The Broadberry (feat. Genocide Pact & Concealed Blade)
03/01 Baltimore, MD – Baltimore Soundstage (feat. Genocide Pact & Concealed Blade)
03/02 New York, NY – The Marlin Room (feat. Concealed Blade & Krimewatch)
03/03 Pittsburgh, PA – Spirit Hall (feat. Concealed Blade & Protester)
03/04 Cleveland, OH – Now That’s Class (feat. Concealed Blade & Krimewatch)
03/05 Buffalo, NY – The Studio (no Iron Reagan)
03/07 Somerville, MA – Once Ballroom
03/08 Montreal, QC – Les Foufounes Electriques
03/09 Ottawa, ON – The Brass Monkey
03/10 Toronto, ON – Velvet Underground
03/11 Detroit, MI – Marble Bar
03/12 Chicago, IL – Reggie’s
03/13 Minneapolis, MN – Triple Rock Social Club
03/14 Des Moines, IA – Vaudeville Mews
03/16 Kansas City, MO – Riot Room
03/16 Oklahoma City, OK – 89th Street Collective
03/25 Austin, TX – Mohawk
Power Trip:
03/26 Dallas, TX – South By So What?!
With Destruction Unit & Primal Rite:
03/27 Albuquerque, NM – Sister
03/28 Denver, CO – Marquis Theater
03/29 Salt Lake City, UT – Beehive Social Club
03/30 Boise, ID – WavePOP House
03/31 Tacoma, WA – Real Art Tacoma
04/01 Vancouver, BC – Astoria
With Destruction Unit:
04/02 Portland, OR – Analog Theater
With Destruction Unit & Mizery:
04/04 Santa Rosa, CA – Arlene Francis Center
With Mizery, Destruction Unit & Primal Rite:
04/06 Oakland, CA – The New Parish
With Mizery & Destruction Unit:
04/07 San Jose, CA – The Ritz
04/08 Los Angeles, CA – Teragram Ballroom
04/10 San Diego, CA – The Casbah
04/11 Phoenix, AZ – Rebel Lounge
04/12 Tucson, AZ – Club Congress
