Taken off their forthcoming record, Nightmare Logic, today Power Trip reveal “Executioners Tax (Swing Of The Axe“.
In a not so positive way to look at the world Power Trip have released their second single “Executioners Tax (Swing Of The Axe” and though the name might sound morbid the idea behind the song is actually very clever.
Based on those who were sentenced to death in the times of old you would have to pay the executioners tax. Of all ways to go having your head lopped off isn’t the most preferable and can take a couple of goes, so in order to bypass this, you would pay an executioner tax. This would then ensure that it was a nice clean cut and you would die swiftly and peacefully, well as peacefully as you can having had your head chopped off.
Here is a rather more elaborate statement :
“In Christian European countries where it was common for the person sentenced to death to have a chance to repent. If they did, they were given a bag of coins, silver or alike. For if they were particularly vile or the executioner felt lazy, it may take more than one swing of that axe to get that person’s head off and that kind of death is certainly one you’d want to be as painless as possible. Hence, the Executioner’s Tax to ensure a strong, lights-out kind of death. It’s more subtly an allegory about that being the motive for a lot of people these days and how the people that feed and heal us (The Executioner and The Priest). They love to get us addicted, fat, sick – so they can feed us, medicate us and nearly quite literally kill many of us. We pay for pleasure of making it taste good or being numb to it all. We are all slowly paying our way out and our lives are built around the Executioner’s Tax – hopefully going out quick and easy. We subconsciously crave for our end, a spoiled one.”
Brutal but intelligent!
Power Trip’s brand new album Nightmare Logic is set for a February 24th release via Southernlord.
