Zack de la Rocha Launches One Day As A Lion

Debuts on Anti- on July 22.

By Fred Mills

One Day As A Lion has just signed with Anti- Records to release their One Day As A Lion debut EP on July 22. Who, you ask, is One Day As A Lion? It’s Zack de la Rocha, from Rage Against The Machine of course, on vocals and keyboards, and drummer Jon Theodore.

From the band:

“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 is taken from the infamous 1970 black and white, captured by legendary Chicano photographer George Rodriguez featuring a center framed tag on a white wall in an unspecified section of Boyle Heights.  It reads: ‘It’s better to live one day as a lion, than a thousand years as a lamb.’  This record is a stripped down attempt to realize this sentiment in sound.”

The band is so new it only got a MySpace page active last week, and both it and the official website don’t offer much info other than what we’re reporting here. No music samples yet, so keep checking back.

Track Listing:

01 - Wild International

02 – Ocean View

03 – Last Letter

04 – If You Fear Dying

05 – One Day As A Lion