Lamb Of God guitarist Mark Morton, Clutch drummer Jean-Paul Gaster and Stinking Lizaveta guitarist Yanni Papadopoulos have released a new track together under their Morton Gaster Papadopoulos project.
This newest outing is titled “The Burnt Offerings” and finds them joined by Naeemah Maddox on vocals and Chris Brooks on keyboards. Maddox also previously guested on Morton‘s solo debut album, “Anesthetic“. You can hear the track below via The Obelisk. Papadopoulos commented of it:
“This were my riffs that I brought to the table when jamming with Mark and JP. Those guys took the parts and rearranged them in a less linear order and Mark added his own fills in the spaces. Of course Naeemah wrote her own parts to the arrangement with lyrics, vox and flute.
Chris Brooks filled in the keys. However, it all started with a bassline which I thought JP could really sink his teeth into. J. Robbins was great to work with, he knew just how to make sense of it all. What your hearing is virtually a live in the studio track. Mark’s solo was cut live with bass and drums with no edits. First take magic!”
Maddox added:
“In the current social climate it is no longer sufficient to be non-racist. One must be anti-racist. This moment demands true accountability, and real change.
Transnational corporations stating their support for BLM should only be taken as sincere if they also advocate and lobby for social reforms like a living wage, universal healthcare, and defunding and demilitarising the police; using these new freed up resources to reinvest in vulnerable communities that need it most.
The time has long passed for petty sloganeering and cynical tokenism. Being against police brutality in 2020 shouldn’t even be a political issue. This is a failure of our society and goes beyond political persuasion. This is about human rights and creating a world our children would want to live in.”
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