Plutocracy Planet‘s guest-filled self-titled debut album received a release today, July 12th. With its arrival, you can now hear the featured cover of System Of A Down‘s 1998 cut “War?“.
Scott Morrow heads up the project, which has been described as a an ‘experimental sociopolitical super-collective’. Joining Morrow on this track is Protest The Hero vocalist Rody Walker. Morrow said of this take on the song:
“This System Of A Down song is an evergreen reminder that today’s war crimes set the stage for tomorrow’s. Ordinary people do not want war, and yet it is interwoven with the human condition. We’re tribalistic, but it often takes extravagant lies and manipulations, echoed by corporate or state-controlled media, to foment support for war.
I worry that the rush among powerful nations to use AI for warfare will expedite the next global conflict. In the wrong hands, these new technologies could threaten freedom worldwide. Fascism is on the rise not only in the U.S. but in other democracies, and I hope that this democratic experiment—as flawed as it is—doesn’t become just a footnote in history.”
The extensive guest list for the aforementioned album includes:
- Bob Nanna (Braid, Hey Mercedes, Lifted Bells)
- Jonah Matranga (Far, Gratitude, onelinedrawing)
- Matt Pryor (The Get-Up Kids, The New Amsterdams, Radar State)
- Mike Kinsella (American Football, Owen, Cap’n Jazz)
- Liam Wilson (The Dillinger Escape Plan, Azusa)
- Rody Walker (Protest The Hero)
- Carson Pace (The Callous Daoboys)
- Emily Jane White
- Mark Rose (Spitalfield)
- Swamburger (Solillaquists of Sound)
- Blueprint (Soul Position, Greenhouse)
- Jørgen Munkeby (Shining)
- Carla Kihlstedt (Sleepytime Gorilla Museum, Tin Hat Trio, Rabbit Rabbit Radio)
- Nils Frykdahl (Sleepytime Gorilla Museum, Faun Fables, Idiot Flesh)
- Aaron Spectre (Drumcorps)
- Bruce Lamont (Yakuza, Masonic Wave)
- Angela Mullenhour (Sybris, Touched by Ghoul, Pink Frost)
- Anton Patzner (Emily Jane White, Foxtails Brigade, Judgement Day)
- Jonathan Hischke (The Sound of Animals Fighting, Le Butcherettes, Hella, Anywhere)
- Jason Schimmel (Secret Chiefs 3, Estradasphere, Red Fiction)
- Adam Stacey (Igorrr, Secret Chiefs 3, Estradasphere)
- Jason Zdora (HeWhoCorrupts)
- Leyla I. Royale (Chicago Street Strings)
