Paint It Black have chosen the song “Dominion” as the second single from their approaching new album, “Famine“. The Philadelphia hardcore outfit are set to release the latter on November 03rd through Revelation Records.
Guitarist Don Devore of Ink & Dagger fame guests on this new single, which you can stream below. Paint It Black also explained the meaning behind the track, offering:
“This song is our attempt to address our country’s frightening slide into right wing theocracy. Aside from direct assaults on reproductive freedom and free speech, the nastiest trick that religious fundamentalism plays on the faithful is the promise of a better life after the one we’re currently living.
Rather than critiquing or challenging an economic arrangement that guarantees a life of toil and struggle or abject poverty for most humans, so that a very small number of people can accumulate wealth, we’re offered the narrative that suffering in this life has meaning and will grant us admission into the hereafter. In this way, fundamentalist organized religion protects power and wealth. The idea that the natural world was created for humans to exploit is the reason the world is on fire.”
