Annihilation/Billionaire Death Drive is a second volume of anarcho-industrial punk from Te Whanganui-a-Tara’s Displeasure, the digital subsidiary of Unsanitary Napkin. The album expresses an even greater sense of urgency about the fragile state of our planet, and a greater sense of fury towards the depraved hypercapitalist sadists ruling over us. Western governments are sitting snugly in the pockets of billionaire sociopaths who envision a future of endless war on Earth, and who fantasise about escaping the complete and total destruction of the planet via underground boltholes, Network States, or interplanetary exploitation.
Despite years of repeated warnings of a fascist resurgence, its roots have quickly spread over the globe. The taproot of this is the US Empire, where malevolent venture capitalists like Peter Thiel, Marc Andreessen, and techno-authoritarian dickheads like Curtis Yarvin, have formed ideological alliances with government leaders and billionaire CEOs to usher in a new era of uninhibited capitalist extraction. The so-called State of Israel, two-facedly funded by much of the Western world, has continued to rain down bombs on Palestinians in a ceaseless genocide. Social media grifters and manosphere jagoffs pump steaming turds of disinformation into a thoroughly enshittified internet ecosystem, while our user data is siphoned out to train AI systems for military tech.
Nobody is coming to save us. But their money, their bunkers, and their colonial space fantasies won't save them either. We have a shared outlet for fury and grief in music, we have each other, we have solidarity, we have community. We can engage in direct action, we can participate in mutual aid efforts, we can boycott and sabotage. The billionaire clowns and fascists live absurd, pathetic, shitty little lives in fear, and we have hope.
“The subject is not whether we accomplish anarchism today, tomorrow, or within ten centuries, but that we walk towards anarchism today, tomorrow, and always.” - Errico Malatesta
Credits
Recorded by Vanya Vitali
Production by Alphabethead
Released by Limbless
Album artwork by Daily Secretion
Cowards features the voice of Refaat Al-Areer with the permission of his brother, Adel Al-Areer.
Palestine will be free.