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Fans can get an immediate sneak peek into the album with tracks We Don’t Need You ft. Vic Mensa &Battle Sirens ft. Knife Party, both of which are available now. In addition, Tom Morello was featured as a guest on Lars Ulrich’s Beats 1 show ‘It’s Electric’ which aired at a special time following Zane Loweairing the debut of We Don’t Need You. The episode will re-air Sunday, July 29. Watch the full music video for the track available exclusively on Apple Music HERE.
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“The riffs and the beats led the way, but the extraordinary talents of the collaborators set my creativity into uncharted territory. I’ve been devoted both musically and as an activist to fighting injustice at every turn,”says Morello. “Amid this heightened sense of impending doom, it’s now time to rally the troops in a last-ditch effort to save the planet, and our artistic souls. By challenging the boundaries of what music is and has sounded like before, you can open peoples’ eyes to changing the status quo in society.”
Assembled across a variety of studios spanning multiple continents, Morello calls The Atlas Underground “a clandestine sonic conspiracy of artists working in disparate locations toward a shared goal of creating a new genre of music.” The lyrics often take the form of “social justice ghost stories,” and on tracks such as Bassnectar, Big Boi and Killer Mike’s “Rabbit Revenge” and the RZA/GZA-featuring “Lead Poisoning,” they convey the experiences of those less fortunate who were unable to speak up for themselves.
THE ATLAS UNDERGROUND TRACK LISTING:
- Battle Sirens – Tom Morello ft. Knife Party
- Rabbit’s Revenge – Tom Morello ft. Bassnectar, Big Boi, and Killer Mike
- Every Step That I Take – Tom Morello ft. Portugal. The Man and Whethan
- We Don’t Need You – Tom Morello ft. Vic Mensa
- Find Another Way – Tom Morello ft. Marcus Mumford
- How Long – Tom Morello ft. Steve Aoki and Tim McIlrath (Rise Against)
- Lucky One – Tom Morello ft. K.Flay
- One Nation – Tom Morello ft. Pretty Lights
- Vigilante Nocturno – Tom Morello ft. Carl Restivo
- Where It’s At Ain’t What It Is – Tom Morello ft. Gary Clark Jr. and Nico Stadi
- Roadrunner – Tom Morello ft. Leikeli47
- Lead Poisoning – Tom Morello ft. GZA, RZA, and Herobust
