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Built On Broken Backs

from Greyscale by Darko

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    DARKO Greyscale ep on vinyl, this is the second chapter in a trilogy rolling out with the bands new vocalist Tom West.

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    DARKO are offering collectors and fans a Limited Edition collector’s set, with a premium heavy-weight collectors sleeve to house all 3 chapters of the anthology and an annotated lyric book with art and photos. Each sleeve will be hand-numbered and have a personal message to each fan.

    Collectors will also be able to access news about the 3rd EP, with exclusive early listens and extra content only available for owners of the premium package.

    Owners of the Sparkle EP will be able to discount Trinity Collectors Edition without Sparkle and still have their collection without doubling up.

    50 will go on sale from now until the end of Weekend and a further 50 will be on sale with the final chapter of the series set for release early 2025.

    Includes digital pre-order of Greyscale. You get 3 tracks now (streaming via the free Bandcamp app and also available as a high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more), plus the complete album the moment it’s released.     ... more
    digital album releases May 17, 2024
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Darko's ‘Built On Broken Backs’ furiously ridicules UK Conservative Party claims of a National Trust report into slavery and colonialism 'sanitising history'.

Lead vocalist Tom West said:

"We can't progress without learning from past atrocities. Parasite politicians like Ben Bradley MP prefer to conceal these lessons, pandering to the hurt feelie-weelies of racist nationalists who - unironically - chastise historians as "snowflakes".

"Bradley's publically available voting record is repugnant. With his Mansfield parliamentary seat likely up for grabs in 2024, it would be very, very funny if this song had something to do with removing Ben Bradley from a position of power."

lyrics

Of what atrocities has it been ensured that we don’t know, so we can’t atone?
Built on broken backs, an inherent born advantage
Wilful ignorance to generations of injustice
State-mandated disillusion
The poison’s on the menu and the masses are inhaling it
Oh god, they’re downing every drip

Guzzling the problem, no thirst for the solution
Our complicity yanks us back, paralyses like a heart attack

Rewritten by the winners
Constructs moulded to ensure we don’t know what we did

The reins are never given
The conmen won’t concede, they won’t give up their seats
These hypodermic lines
Don’t ask why the haves have all they need, meanwhile the have-nots bleed
Nothing to see

Try as they might, our teachers lose the fight against these parasites
In spite of facts in black and white

Corrupted narrative
(Diluted) whitewashed stories for fragile Tories
A patriotic propaganda stream
“God Save the King!”

I don’t think we’ll change this cycle overnight
The chancers won’t go out without a fight
Lying to hold on to their power
This noose must be untied

I don’t think we’ll change this cycle overnight
The chancers won’t go out without a fight
They’ll never compromise their power
A planet sanitised

Try as they might, our teachers lose the fight against these parasites

We built on broken backs

credits

from Greyscale, releases May 17, 2024
Lyrics: Tom West
Music: Chris Brown, Andy Borg, Rob Piper, Karl Surhsam, Tom West

EP Produced and Mastered by Will Duff at Goliath Sound Studios:
www.goliathsoundstudios.com
Drums Recorded by Daly George at The Ranch:
www.dalygeorge.com
Drums Edited by Charlie Munro at Munro Audio:
www.munro-audio.com
DARKO is proudly endorsed by Victory and use the V30 guitar amps.
www.victoryamps.com

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Tom West - Vox
Chris Brown - Gtr
Rob Piper - Gtr
Karl Sursham - Bass
Andy Borg - Drums

Over a raucous decade, DARKO have by definition, become veterans of the UK Punk scene and it is not uncommon to see them standing as an essential name within the intricate and complex world of contemporary Punk and Hardcore. ... more

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