Ninja Crusade, hailing from Malmö, has released the concept album “Peace Through Superior Firepower”, an album with the war in Iraq as a theme:

We wanted to write about something that was important for us, but couldn’t come up with anything from our own lives that felt relevant. In a way you could say that the album is about the emotions of guilt, from us being spoilt by living in a stable industrial country while people in other countries are being killed by someone who says that he’s “liberating them from their chains” (and then calls it “collateral damage”).

About the music Kristoffer Knutsson from Ninja Crusade continues:

Mars Volta and Sigur Rós are two bands that have influenced us the most. The feeling we’d like to convey on a live gig is the same as we felt ourselves, the fist time we saw these bands; the feeling about how one’s concept of music is being expanded. Other bands that inspire us are Khoma and Mono.

In the songwriting we are inspired by many things, as long as it fits in a whole. You should be able to hear “that was a part of a Pink Floyd-vibe”, but it shouldn’t be more than a vibe.

You can download the album if you’d like. Ninja Crusade can be followed on Myspace. Here’s “Sonic Boom”:

Sonic Boom