The Bad Penny (beta)

Brendan Sloan is a visionary multi-instrumentalist who refers to himself on his Bandcamp page as “once gadigal, then kaurna, now graciously living on unceded wurundjeri land, so-called australia.” The man behind the best one-man death-metal band in The Land Down Under touches base with The Bad Penny in the latest edition of our ongoing series, On Tyranny.

The extremely well-informed Sloan provides a university-grade lesson on the history of his country’s genocide against indigenous farmers, encroaching fascism and antisemitism, and threats posed by growing fascist-right and techno-fascist movements in his homeland.

If you enjoyed Convulsing’s On Tyranny installment, these editions might appeal to you as well:

• Australian Punk Project Schkeuditzer Kreuz Says Authoritarian America Would Ban Band From Playing New Song Live

• As U.S. Citizens Get Disappeared and Terrorized, Chile’s Mawiza Reflects

• Moonspell Vocalist Says Colonialism Caused Gaza Crisis but That Democracy Can Be Restored After Fascist Rule

The On Tyranny archive is here.

Go to Convulsing’s Bandcamp page for more on the project.

Head here for a pay-what-you-can digital copy of Convulsing’s latest LP, perdurance, on Bandcamp.

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