MORDRED All Eyes On The Prize ( Official Video)

All Eyes On The Prize the latest digital single and video from the influential Bay Area alternative thrash act s forthcoming album, The Dark Parade, album out July 23rd. Order CD, digital, limitededition blue vinyl with orange splatter and limited cassette now at This song is based on the idea of manifest destiny here in America, set to the backdrop of the transcontinental railway construction of the late 1800s, explains guitarist Danny White. I was watching a show called Hell on Wheels, and it just struck me that manifest destiny and the idea that ruling America at all costs, plundering its resources and subjugating its indigenous inhabitants is somehow divinely preordained seemed antithetical to what a divine being originally intended. Colonization is an ugly business.