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artist: Desolat
title: People as Idiots & Idiots as Leaders
year: 2026
genre: Metal
type: Album
label: Bloodshed666 Records
language: English
rel. date: 2026-10-09
source: WEB/MP3
quality: CBR 320kbps / 44.1 kHz / Joint Stereo
runtime: 00:33:18
size: 76.4 MiB / 9 tracks
rip date: 2026-10-09
source url: https://open.qobuz.com/album/z0bt72l2t4oyq
tracklist:
01. Idiots as Leaders 4:03
02. Pig Race to the Apocalypse 3:23
03. This Sadness Makes Me Rage (feat. Jarboe) 4:32
04. No Depression When Dead (feat. Michael Masen) 5:33
05. Wannabe V.I.P. (feat. Rebecca Von Rolltreppe) 2:30
06. Good People Keep Their Mouths Shut While the Assholes Believe 3:43
the World Belongs to Them
07. The Art of Shit 2:55
08. Cyberdyne Employment Application 3:33
09. Humans Are Such Easy Prey 3:07
release notes:
"AN ALBUM ABOUT THE DECLINE OF DEMOCRACY AND THE LOSS OF UTOPIA."
After their second album "Get Sick And Let Me Watch You Die" was released
in 2024 by the U.S. noise rock/punk label "Reptilian Records" - thereby
introducing the band to a wider audience for the first time - the band is
taking their release policy a step further by making the record available
through a total of nine labels and three distributors across seven
countries. This is a DIY collaborative release of the kind the band
members know from their anarcho-punk roots. It wasn't an easy project,
but if you love networking, it was a fun one. Build your own fucking
life!
The nine songs on "People As Idiots & Idiots As Leaders" largely follow a
thematic concept rooted in our times. In a world where wannabe and actual
autocrats, far-right extremists and populists, macho loudmouths, and
religious fanatics are elected to lead nations, democracy appears
increasingly fragile. When the trajectory of social and political
development seems to be heading primarily downward, democracy becomes a
precious commodity even for anarchists - one that we must hope will at
least be maintained at its current level. The conflict between
revolutionaries and reformists within the left-wing scene suddenly seems
ridiculous. When one is surrounded by figures like Putin, Orbán, Erdoğan,
Trump, Bolsonaro, Milei, Meloni, Kaczyński, and the like - and when
parties such as the FPÖ and AfD (both far-right/populist) are enjoying
enormous success in one's own and the neighboring country - it becomes
disheartening to hold out hope for the future. The media landscape is
shifting towards sickening and emotionally radicalizing social media
dynamics controlled by ridiculously rich oligarchs who openly express
anti-democratic fantasies of omnipotence and would love to play the role
of world leaders.
Desolat play a mix of noise rock, sludge, and hardcore, and at heart
they're anarcho-punks - you can't let those things go uncommented.
The album's chronology follows an initial assessment (Idiots as Leaders,
Pig Race To The Apocalypse), followed by depression (This Sadness Makes
Me Rage, No Depression When Dead, Good People Keep Their Mouths Shut
While The Assholes Believe The World Belongs To Them) and ultimately
culminates in cynicism and resignation (Cyberdyne Employment Application,
Humans Are Such Easy Prey). Doesn't sound very uplifting. Yet anger at
the state of the world and one's own condition is omnipresent in the
energy of the music and lyrics.
Stylistically, emocore elements have crept in for the first time,
revisiting the band members' past projects. Life's a Circle.
The album features guest appearances by JARBOE (SWANS, NEUROSIS), Michael
Masen (MOZO MOZO), and RBK von ROLLTREPPE.
The album was once again recorded and mixed at Cosmix Studio in Vienna by
Rainer Spänle, and mastered by Swedish death metal legend Dan Swanö /
UNISOUND (EDGE OF SANITY, KATATONIA, BLOODBATH).