But that’s their loss (the people who didn’t buy it, that is). Not only are the Program’s Thad Calabrese (bass) and Justin Foley (guitar/vocals) personally responsible for freeing ODB from counterfactual incarceration they also recorded a pretty awesome EP for Hydra Head back in 2003 entitled Terra Nova. In discussing the great musical duos of the past half-century - Jerry Leiber & Mike Stoller, Ike & Tina Turner, Rob Base & DJ E-Z Rock - you hardly ever hear anyone mention the Austerity Program. We didn't write it, but we're putting it here for posterity.)
I was like, ‘Fuck, I’m dying.(This is the original promo description. He did, like, seven songs but it felt like I’d seen four bands. One of Tobias’ first post-lockdown gigs was watching Ed Sheeran play to 500 people at “this little corporate gig.” It had a weird effect on him. That stuff is unbelievably fucking good.” So many other Broadway shows aren’t nearly as hit-driven as his stuff was, like Phantom Of The Opera or Memory. Tobias freely admits that new songs such as Twenties and the Jack The Ripper-referencing Respite On The Spitalfields owe a debt to Phantom Of The Opera and Cats composer Andrew Lloyd Webber. West End and Broadway musicals are an even more unlikely Impera.
It’s such a riot! I’m not saying that as a surprise – I think they were great.” “I thought I would see if I could do it a little more like Def Leppard did it, where every song starts with one thing, and then there’s a verse, then there’s a pre-chorus that feels like a chorus, and then there’s another pre-chorus and after, like, five different sections, comes the chorus, in a completely different key. Tobias has been listening to the British hard rock titans, of Pour Some Sugar On Me fame. One of the biggest musical inspirations? Def Leppard We’re not going to use these telescopes to look for stars, we’re gonna look for God! And maybe we can use it to communicate with God because we have something important to tell him.’ Like, complete stupidity.” He mocks their tinfoil-hatted perspective: “‘How can we take this round planet and flatten it? Because that fits our linear concept better. The song Watcher In The Sky is takedown of those who deny science in order to serve their own needs, including Flat-Earthers and religious fundamentalists. Even darker than some of the things that I’ve written before.”Īnother new song sees Tobias taking aim at Flat-Earthers It’s supposed to sound like a big pep talk but it has the darkest lyrics ever. “ Kaisarion is this almost-euphoric call-to-arms to burn everything old and come up with something new. That song was inspired by the son of Cleopatra and Julius Caesar, who died at age 17 during one of the bloodiest periods in Roman history.
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Opening track Kaisarion gives it the full “Fall Of The Roman Empire” “Right there and then, I knew that at some point, ‘I’m going to make an imperial record.’ “I’m interested in history and culture, and how empires are built up, and how and why they always fall apart,” he says. Tobias was shopping in an “anti-authoritarian” bookshop in Seattle when he came across a book called The Rule Of Empires. Tobias found inspiration for Impera in an anarchist bookshop
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