A song which was inspired by the tragic death of a young tribal girl whose tribe was fighting to save thier homeland forest in Brazil. Loggers and western interests had a different plan, and decided to burn her alive as an example.

BlueFlag

Raven is a track from the upcoming Unit F album Ecocide. It explores the role of a false religion more interested in Dominion than real spirituality. Who influenced the Church, and why was it sent into the new world on its genocidal march?

Ecocide Mastered mp3s

Raven

2017
Decay

When you have a look at the facts -you wonder if the time is ever coming back
When respect was a tradition and not something to hate-Some lived in balance, not to dominate
With noble words and flowery creeds, your founding fathers did the devils deeds
Remember the ways of the tribe you smite-I clinch my fist/we know it ain’t right

decay-betray-insane


Long before you came to these shores-  you were savage euro devils in the candy store
Genocide is a dirty word except when used by the Christian lords

Now we fast forward right to today-tell me my friends now what has changed?
Illusion, separation and the wasting decay-and again they use you in this passion play


…and so you say…the game must be played
Then why, does it always end up ……………………this way?
Free Will! And why is there even a  trade
And why does it always end then same?..

decay-betray-insane


All the symbols that you embrace/leave their mark without a trace
The Controllers are really just your type/The ancient father figures that you light

Because you forgot from where it was you came/Hidden now but all the same-
Just shorten the questions to fit your maps and cite the convenient absence of facts


…and so you say…the game must be played
Then why, does it always end up ……………………this way?
Free Will! And why is there even a  trade
And why does it always end then same?..


Free Will  Free Will!

Schantz  2017
UnitF Music

008 Decay

Memo (to myself) features a rhythmic bass line that morphs into a charged song about the subtle trap of corporate systems that turn on their makers, a surprise break and harmony laden choruses.  Addressing the topical (“endless diseases in the air/selling cures that aren’t quite there” is really an exercise in accountability (“I know….we made them all!”).

Music by Unit F, 2020 All rights reserved, Unit F Music
Mel Schantz, Lyrics and Vocals
Dave Costa, Guitars
Guillermo Santacruz, Bass and vocals
Phil Moore, Drums

Produced by Unit F and Jim Monroe
Recorded and Mixed by Jim Monroe and Unit F at the Racket Room, Costa Mesa, Ca

Memo (To Myself)

Jesus Saves shows the bands willingness to use a voiced sarcasm to show the blind hypocrisy of religious theocrats and their followers.  Using a jaunty, raucous, rock approach to deliver the punk, the song is dangerously sarcastic in tone with accented, exaggerated political jingoism for effect. Good thing we all been saved….

Music by Dave Costa and Unit F, 2020 All rights reserved, Unit F Music
Mel Schantz, Lyrics and Vocals
Dave Costa, Guitars, backing vocals
Guillermo Santacruz, Bass and vocals
Phil Moore, Drums

Produced by Unit F and Jim Monroe
Recorded and Mixed by Jim Monroe and Unit F at the Racket Room, Costa Mesa, Ca

Jesus Saves

Human Zoo The title track of this release, Human Zoo is a bass riff driven, open guitar paced, poignant look at the urban dichotomy of homelessness amidst gentrified Los Angeles. Experienced firsthand, it gets a bit surreal in downtown L.A., with its subsets of tony upscale developments, hipster lofts and high-end venues while below, in between the skyscrapers of the movers and the shakers, there is an entirely different level of existence. But what happens when the barriers of entitlement between the have’s and the have nots are removed?

Featuring lush harmonies to highlight an apocalyptic reality, the supposition is that given one big event, the separation between the entitled and the desperate, goes away. 

Music by Unit F, 2020 All rights reserved, Unit F Music
Mel Schantz, Lyrics and Vocals
Dave Costa, Guitars, backing vocals
Guillermo Santacruz, Bass and vocals
Phil Moore, Drums
Jim Monroe guest vocals

Produced by Unit F and Jim Monroe
Recorded and Mixed by Jim Monroe and Unit F at the Racket Room, Costa Mesa, Ca

Human Zoo

It’s Okay is Unit F's darkpunk/deathrock approach to a song that reviews complacency as the delusion which justifies social comfort (“…So you turn around and your life has gone by…”), and features the bands trademark dark chords and punctuated timing breaks which drive the song to a chaotic end.  Extended choruses drift into goth territory, while the judgement's echo in the noise.

Music by Dave Costa and Unit F, 2020 All rights reserved, Unit F Music
Mel Schantz, Lyrics and Vocals
Dave Costa, Guitars, backing vocals
Guillermo Santacruz, Bass and vocals
Phil Moore, Drums


Produced by Unit F and Jim Monroe
Recorded and Mixed by Jim Monroe and Unit F at the Racket Room, Costa Mesa, Ca

It's Okay

The second full-length album from Unit F.

Produced by Unit F, Greg Hetson, Jim Monroe.
Engineered by Jim Monroe, George Hart.
Mastered by Paul Miner.

All The Best

Heather

The second full-length album from Unit F. Song written and originally performed by Black President.

Produced by Unit F, Greg Hetson, Jim Monroe.
Engineered by Jim Monroe, George Hart.
Mastered by Paul Miner.

Who Do You Trust

Since its inception, Unit F has been walking the fine line of socio-political consciousness and chaos with their own amalgam of dark punk, deathrock and esoteric rock.  The approach is a dynamic yet defined sound, showing an awareness of punk rock’s musical heritage and its decided trademark charge of the need for social and political change so typically absent from popular culture.

In 2020 Unit F announced the additions of drummer Andy David and Peter Moreno on bass following the late 2019 departures of Guillermo Santacruz and Phil Moore which effectively hit the pause button on the release of its fourth full length, which is now planned for 2020 to stand alongside Ecocide: Songs of Dysfunction (2018), Comes The Day (2014) and American Shutdown (2009). The new self-produced effort signaled a return to friend and producer Jim Monroe (Adolescents, Fu Manchu, Manic Hispanic, CJ Ramone) who was responsible for previous full lengths (along with Greg Hetson), as well as the hard charging Same Ol’ Story EP (2012).   

By the summer of 2019, the recording process yielded a four song ‘single/ep’ which will be self-released in March of 2020 , along with several new music videos (Joe Gill producing). The songs include Memo (To Myself), Human Zoo, Jesus Saves, and It’s Okay. That same chemistry and the penchant for songwriting that became Ecocide, is on full display with these numbers, with a unique view of the systematic appropriation of the individual by the corporate system (Memo), a dour look at the homeless crisis witnessed first hand (Human Zoo), and a dangerously sarcastic look at the hypocrisy of the political evangelicals (Jesus Saves). The final barrage is saved for the sneering tongue in cheek It’s Okay, lamenting the everyday wasting process of our collective complacency.

The current the lineup began will continue playing as a four piece, still led by original vocalist Mel Schantz who pens the lyrics and mans the vocals. It is a quicker if not louder, more dynamic and version of the band, with Andy David’s expressive drums, and the wall of guitar effect by Dave Costa.  Combined with Peter Moreno’s driving bass lines and backing vocals, Unit F’s sound fills up the room as well as it translates to the big stage.