One Day As A Lion is a collaboration between Zack de la Rocha (Rage Against the Machine) and Jon Theodore (ex-drummer for The Mars Volta). Today it was announced that the duo's first record, will be a self-titled EP to be released on July 22, 2008, on Anti- Records.

The band issued the following statement:

“One Day As A Lion is both a warning delivered and a promise kept.”

“A defiant affirmation of the possibilities that exist in the space between kick and snare.  It’s a sonic reflection of the visceral tension between a picturesque fabricated cultural landscape, and the brutal socioeconomic realities it attempts to mask.  One Day As A Lion is a recorded interaction between Zack de la Rocha and Jon Theodore from Los Angeles, California.”

“The name taken from the infamous 1970 black and white, captured by legendary Chicano photographer George Rodriguez featuring a center framed tag on a white wall in an unspecified section of Boyle Heights.  It reads: ‘It’s better to live one day as a lion, than a thousand years as a lamb.’  This record is a stripped down attempt to realize this sentiment in sound.”

Track list:

01. Wild International
02. Ocean View
03. Last Letter
04. If You Fear Dying
05. One Day As A Lion
 

The EP was recorded by Robert Carranza at Ocean Way Recording and mixed by Mario C at MCJ Studio.