C a n y o u t a l k t o u s m o r e a b o u t y o u r l a t e s t s i n g l e ,
" B a c k I n T h e U S S A " ?
It is one of 1 3 tracks on the album, and really only
one of three politically charged songs. The others
are very different and are more about how we felt
after the Paris Attacks at the Bataclan, since we
recorded this new album just days after that horrific
tragedy at the Eagles Of Death Metal's concert and
went straight into their guitarist Dave Catching's
studio Rancho De La Luna in Joshua Tree. We
ended up writing songs that reflected how we felt
about the world in dire straits, the emotions we felt,
and the expression of how to survive in this crazy
mixed up world.
It felt like the video's message: jailed in a mansion
with all the luxuries but locked out of the real
world... freedom comes from within but if you only
look to the outside world, you'll see we're all slaves
to the system.
T h e s i n g l e c o m e s o f f y o u r n e w a l b u m R u b M y M i n d
- w h a t ' s t h e s t o r y b e h i n d t h e t i t l e ?
It's a lyric taken from one of the songs called "Call
Me", which is about date rape. It's a phrase we just
came up with and it has more meanings than meets
the eye. We're all being conditioned to be slaves by
society and the rulers at power, but people are
waking up and realizing that their minds are being
rubbed. Time to wake up and activate your thunder
D i d a n y e v e n t i n p a r t i c u l a r i n s p i r e y o u t o w r i t e t h i s and true potential.
s o n g ?
Coming from Greece, we know political oppression T e l l u s a b i t a b o u t t h e r e c o r d i n g a n d w r i t i n g
and corruption in the government and bankers, so it p r o c e s s ?
seems this song is very fitting in America right now It took just two days to record there in the desert.
with Trump in power and it's a flashback really to Rancho De La Luna is legendary because that's
1 977 when the same was going on in England and where the "desert rock" movement started with
punk exploded as a voice of the people against the Kyuss, then Queens Of The Stone Age and on. We
failing social and politics system.
only had two days because Iggy Pop and Josh
Homme showed up to record their album 'Post Pop
H o w w a s t h e f i l m i n g e x p e r i e n c e ? T e l l u s a b o u t t h a t .