Big Black “Il Duce” b/w “Big Money” 1985. Homestead Records. Some loud, dark protest industrial music with perfectly paired titles for this moment, around noon on January 20th, 2017. “Il Duce” means “the chief” in Italian and Mussolini notoriously used the phrase as his dictatorial title during WWII. The song begins with an ominous drone that quickly increases into a beat that drills into your head with the speed and grace of a chainsaw.

I am Benito
I am Benito
I am Benito
And I like my job
They gave me this house
And gave me this car
They gave me the cities and streets
When they gave me this job
I am Benito
And I like my job
I am Benito
And I like my job
I am Benito
I am Benito
I am Benito
I like my job

“Big Money,” a track that appears on their full-length Atomizer release, is equally brutal in sonic intensity and furious rage at an inegalitarian and flawed capitalist system.