BOOTLEG: EXCLUSIVE GAZA SONG, “CANINE DISPOSAL UNIT/THE ANTHROPOLOGIST”

In our never-ending quest to give you the best music available, we present the Revolver Bootleg series. Throughout each month, we’ll post cool, new, and often-exclusive tracks right here for you to hear before anyone else.

This installment is the premiere of sludgy hardcore group Gaza’s “Canine Disposal Unit/The Anthropologist,” two songs combined together here off their upcoming full-length, He Is Never Coming Back, due November 10 on Black Market Activities. Vocalist Jon Parkin fills us in on the song below.

REVOLVER What’s this song about?
JON PARKIN I’ve had some conversations with friends where we’ve talked about how the previous generation to ours was the last to affect any substantial social change. Civil rights, women’s rights, etc. And that our generation seems to be aware of issues at hand, but unwilling to sacrifice anything for them. And how the next generation seems to be fully unaware of any issues at all. This song in short is saying we had our chance and gave up. We gave in to indulgence and I hope we have a good time picking up the bones after it all goes to hell.

Which part of it did you come up with first?
I seldom have words written before the music is recorded. I have an idea of rhythm and cadence from hearing it at practice but the actual words don’t come until I can crank it in my car in an abandoned parking lot somewhere. So the music almost always comes first.

Was this an easy song to write?
None of our songs are easy to write, per se. We’re very picky about what we put forward, so there is a lot of refining in the process. Recording the music is the fun part. We love to be able to sit back and listen as an audience for the first time. Vocals are another story. You have to learn to act a little bit. You’re not pissed off every day so if it doesn’t feel like there is heart behind it, I won’t let it go to press.

Why is the following track, “The Anthropologist,” so important to this piece of music? And why did you decide to separate it on the CD?
Honestly we only separated it for the iPod generation. That shit can be annoying when you’ve got your metal genre on random. It’s an important piece to follow because it gives the listener time to think things over. It’s a break for your ears and brain before moving on to the next noise.

Gaza: "Canine Disposal Unit/The Anthroplogist"

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