Genesis Owusu Shares New Track “DEATH CULT ZOMBIE”
“For most people, the shaking up of what they consider to be true is too scary and inconvenient. Once you’ve picked your truth, you live by it staunchly despite whatever pesky “facts” and “logic” get in the way. Pride won’t let you be wrong, fear won’t let you be free, dogma won’t let you be aware. The delusion is more comfortable. But the longer you sit in that delusion, the faster the zombification spreads through your body like a plague; like a scourge. Gotta be brave enough to break from the cult.” – Genesis Owusu
Happy Halloween spooks. Today, Ghanaian-Australian auteur Genesis Owusu bestows a new single, DEATH CULT ZOMBIE, out everywhere via OURNESS.
A gritty, head-banging bassline rouses DEATH CULT ZOMBIE, evolving into stomping strikes of Brit Rock guitar and pounding drums that drive the track – a seamless divergence in style from the electronic-punk heartbeat of recent single PIRATE RADIO. A thematic air of madness emanates from Owusu as he observes the complexities of entrenched thought indoctrination, when one can reach a point of no return. Released on Halloween, lyrical allusions to divisive global conversations leave an eerie irony in the air, while the world grapples with the zombification within.
Owusu signified a mighty return in September with cutting single PIRATE RADIO, which has gone on to top triple j’s Most Played for multiple consecutive days, spurned a Pirate Radio takeover of fbi Radio’s Arvos, and saw international love from BBC Radio 1, KCRW, SiriusXMU and more. Driven to nurture and prioritise community in the spirit of PIRATE RADIO, Owusu visited fans’ homes and families in hometown Canberra to provide exclusive looks at his upcoming work (over biscuits and tea) and connected with fans over games of UNO in Sydney and Melbourne. A string of wildly lauded live residencies in Sydney and Melbourne previewed his new music within intimate, in-the-round settings; a set that was hailed by a Sydney Morning Herald critic as: “…one of the year’s great live shows”, while Rolling Stone Australia proclaimed it a night that “will be talked about for years to come.”