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After almost a decade of speculative anticipation on the part of his fans, Rage Against the Machine’s Zach de la Rocha finally returns to the studio, with former Mars Volta drummer Jon Theodore. It’s been a long wait, but if anything, the machine’s sway has only grown more insidious, and de la Rocha rises to meet it as if he hadn’t missed a beat. RATM fans will find all the familiar sonic and lyrical calling cards here, but One Day as a Lion is a mimeograph of neither contributor’s flagship band. "If You Fear Dying" and opener "Wild International" highlight this five-song, 20-minute set. Sharing nearly synchronized leading riffs, the two songs also take similar liberties with religious taboo: "I target more heads than a priest on Ash Wednesday" ("If You Fear Dying"); "I’m like a nail stuck in the wrist of their Christmas" ("Wild International"). In "Ocean View"--a heart-breaking, impressionist portrayal of the PATRIOT Act’s capacity for enabling new twists on the old story of racial profiling--de la Rocha’s wailing chorus glides atop a merciless cascade of thunderous drums. For those who follow either of these guys, everything here merits sustained attention. More generally, for those who like their protest music hard, loud, and in small doses, One Day as a Lion is king for a day, at least. --Jason Kirk

Product Description
One Day As A Lion is the creation of musical comrades Zack De La Rocha & Jon Theodore. This is music about space - the space between friends and collaborators where ideas form; the space in a song where the tension builds waiting for the next wave of sound; the space in the corners of the recording studio (Sinatra's old room at Ocean Way) where the sound gathers to fade and die. One Day As A Lion worked hard to capture that space on tape, unadulterated, unmolested, from heart to hand to skins to mics to tape to speaker to ear. The result, someone said, sounds like Led Zep meets Dr. Dre.

Album Description
Anti- Records' One Day As A Lion is an on-going creative collaboration between two like-conscioused individuals. One Day As A Lion is both a warning delivered and a promise kept. A defiant affirmation of the possibilities that exist in the space between kick and snare. It's a sonic reflection of the visceral tension between a picturesque fabricated cultural landscape, and the brutal socioeconomic realities it attempts to mask. One Day As A Lion is a recorded interaction between Zack de la Rocha and Jon Theodore from Los Angeles, California. The name taken from the infamous 1970 black and white, captured by legendary Chicano photographer George Rodriguez featuring a center framed tag on a white wall.

Customer Reviews: Read 18 more reviews...

4 out of 5 stars

Pleased July 23, 2008
7 out of 8 found this review helpful

I have to agree with one of the other reviewers that the tracks on this album all sound pretty similar but the more I listened I was able to pick up on the differences. It gets better with repeated listens. Anyone that was a RATM fan will probably like this. Wild International and One Day As A Lion are definitely worth the price of the album. My only complaints are that I want to hear more and Zach's lyrics are more difficult to make out than on RATM albums.

5 out of 5 stars

Welcome Back Zack July 22, 2008
6 out of 7 found this review helpful

Zack,

Welcome back!!!

Whilst I like majority would prefer that these side projects be stopped and a new RAGE album surface (we live in a world of hope). Zack finally after nearly 8 long years offers us a 5 Track EP! Surely there has to be more than this in terms of songs written.

Stand outs are "Wild International" & "One Day As A Lion" which has that distinct Zack Rap, Hip-Hop Vocal Style but am I sensing some Morello like sounds made via the Keyboard here Zack?? If Audioslave werne't trying to play Rage Music with that washed up Cornell fellow, I think Zack is expressing (musically) he is missing Morello and the remaining memebers of Rage. The songs are a bit raw.

In saying that, Zack on the track "One Day As A Lion" has a greater grip of style (which I believe identify's with what Zack was hoping to achieve), that is no doubt a song that could have been worked to magical wonders by Morello/Wilk and Commerford. However it is nice to see something, finally.

My consenus: Stop the side-projects, your voic is still great and for the love of sanity in this politically corrupt world give us a new album!!

What are you guy's shy of, stop the indifferences, settle the scores and do what you were all born to do, make angry passionaite music with articulate lyrics. Having walked out on Rage in a way are you telling us that you no longer believe in what you started, to make that difference.

Thanks for the 5 track EP Zack after 8 - 13 years (apparently some state this has been in the works as far back as 1995?).

I only hope it won't be another 8 or so years before we see the rest of this album that has been kept very secret???!!!!

5 out of 5 stars

Go ahead and add to your cart July 22, 2008
6 out of 7 found this review helpful

If i HAD to compare this EP to a Rage album, it's most like Evil Empire... and that's a good thing. However, it's not exactly typical RATM... i'd say it's less commercial for sure, and has a very different tone to it. Imagine Evil Empire without all the pretentiousness of Tom Morello's "National Anthem" riffs. Wild International (the most Rage-sounding song on the disc), If You Fear Dying, and One Day as a Lion are the stand out songs. I don't know anything about John or the Mars Volta, but his drumming is EXCELLENT on the entire recording. If you were ever a fan of Zack, you gotta buy this... it's cheap, if you need further incentive.

5 out of 5 stars

A mental kick to the face... July 23, 2008
6 out of 8 found this review helpful

Unbelievable album that only begins upon first listen. These five songs carry enough power and substance that some socio-political bands would hope for in a career. Rocha delivers lyrics up to par with that of 'ratm' and 'battle', while giving a fresh experimental/industrial sound. This has given my mind a wake up call that has been dormant for several months as Im sure it was intentioned.

Do yourself a favor - grab this beast and... WAKE UP!

3 out of 5 stars

Return of Zack... July 22, 2008
4 out of 12 found this review helpful

After I get over the excitement that Zack has returned to give us more politically charged music I wonder what took him so long... I like this release. I'd like it more if there were more dynamics in sound. I know the emphasis is on lyrical content but the songs sound a little too similar with the same tone/distortion for each track.

Take a listen to the song on their myspace page - if you like it you'll like the EP.

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