Power Trip will be releasing Nightmare Logic on February 24th via Southern Lord, and the second single has made its way online. If you loved the ‘Firing Squad’ track they released a few weeks ago, you will definitely love this new one. ‘Executioner’s Tax (Swing Of The Axe)’ is a full on riff party surrounded by a powerful meaning.

Here’s what Riley Gale said on the new single: “Christian European countries where it was common for the person sentenced to death to have a chance to repent. If they did, they were given a bag of coins, silver or alike. For if they were particularly vile or the executioner felt lazy, it may take more than one swing of that axe to get that person’s head off and that kind of death is certainly one you’d want to be as painless as possible. Hence, the Executioner’s Tax to ensure a strong, lights out kinda death. It’s more subtly an allegory about that being the motive for a lot of people these days and how the people that feed and heal us (The Executioner and The Priest). They love to get us addicted, fat, sick – so they can feed us, medicate us and nearly quite literally kill many of us. We pay for pleasure of making it taste good or being numb to it all. We are all slowly paying our way out and our lives are built around the Executioner’s Tax – hopefully going out quick and easy. We subconsciously crave for our end, a spoiled one.”

Blast ‘Executioner’s Tax (Swing Of The Axe)’ below, and if you love it like I do, pre-order Nightmare Logic today!