POWER TRIP strike again with their second single “Executioner’s Tax (Swing of the Axe)” which lyricist Riley Gale explains was written in relation to “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...

