After five-odd years of rumors and false starts, former Rage Against The Machine vocal agitator Zack de la Rocha will finally let a proper release see the light of day. Well, a sort-of proper release; it's an EP. But we're sure those of de la Rocha's diehard fans that don't fit into the "Lollapalooza-generation frat guy who still puts on the first Rage album while getting ready to go out and slam some Jaeger Bombs while listening to a cover band" category will be very, very excited.

One Day As A Lion is the name of both the project that finds de la Rocha collaborating with drummer Jon Theodore (The Mars Volta, Bonnie "Prince" Billy, Trans Am, Royal Trux), and that project's five-track debut. I haven't been able to find any of the material online, but the duo's self-penned introduction makes me think it'll be akin to, if less traditionally rocking than, RATM's politically impassioned grooves:

“One Day As A Lion is both a warning delivered and a promise kept.”
“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 is a recorded interaction between Zack de la Rocha and Jon Theodore from Los Angeles, California.”

“The name taken from the infamous 1970 black and white, captured by legendary Chicano photographer George Rodriguez featuring a center framed tag on a white wall in an unspecified section of Boyle Heights.  It reads: ‘It’s better to live one day as a lion, than a thousand years as a lamb.’  This record is a stripped down attempt to realize this sentiment in sound.”

One Day As A Lion comes out on ANTI- July 22.