We've had a couple requests here about the music in our new viral video, Onslaught(er), which takes on Dove's use of palm oil in their beauty products.
Palm plantations are destroying rainforests, which in turn is contributing to global warming, and Unilever, Dove's owners, are one of the biggest consumers of palm oil in the world.
Yes, yes, some of you have said -- but what's that rocking backing track that sets the machinegun pace?
Well now, since you ask, the lyrics were written by the new kid on the block here in the Amsterdam Secret Mountain Activism Laboratory -- video producer Daniel Bird -- and recorded by indie band Ohm Square.
All over our open-plan office for the last two days as people have opened up the video we've been hearing that slack-string intro, those chainsaw-distorted guitars, that seriously edgy voice dripping with ripsaw attitude.
Daniel, recently relocated from Prague, explains: "They're the Massive Attack of the Czech Republic."
You'd expect an activist edge to a band named Ohm Square. Anybody who has messed around with a circuit board at any point in their lives know that an Ohm is a measure of resistance. And this is one band that clearly works by the theory that the best way to overcome resistance is to crank up the voltage.
It way outrocks the original it's spoofing. I'm looking forward to the Guitar Hero version.
Onslaught(er)
There they go
There they go
There they go
There they go
There they go your trees
Are gone today
All that beauty hacked away
So use your minds
And use your voice to make them stay
It's not a price you’ll have to pay
They cannot hide
There they go your trees
Are gone today
All that beauty hacked away
Just to soap your hide
Whoa there go the trees
Whoa there go the trees
Whoa there go the trees