“One Day As A Lion is both a warning delivered and a promise kept.” Trust Mr de la Rocha to come up with something so dramatic.

Literally moments after I made the above my Facebook profile picture, I found One Day As A Lion . Coincidence? Entirely likely, but it is odd that I would inadvertently involve myself in such a high concentration of lion-related items in such a minimal space of time, seeing as they aren’t really part of my daily internal dialogue, like say, horses. (Incidentally if you Google “internal dialogue,” you will find the page, I Will Jump Sweet Jumps, A Horse Blog: Internal Dialogue. Coincidence? Entirely likely.)

One Day As A Lion is a collaboration between the late Rage Against The Machine’s Zach de la Rocha and the ex-Mars Volta’s Jon Theodore. That’s a whole lot of cred right there. The name is derived from the well-known 1970 George Rodriguez photo of a wall of graffiti which reads, “it’s better to live one day as a lion, than a thousand years as a lamb.” The whole operation, not surprisingly where de la Rocha is involved, is steeped in the powerful sentiment of social discontent. Or as the band puts it,

“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’s EP will be released on Tuesday via Anti- Records.

One Day As A Lion - Wild International

One Day As A Lion - Ocean View

- bec

* Picture from Married To The Sea.