GENGHIS TRON ARE HUGE JOHN WINTHROP FANS

Electrogrind masters Genghis Tron gave their fans a holiday gift in the form of posting another new song, “City On A Hill,” on their MySpace page. The track will appear on their forthcoming opus, Board Up the House.

The phrase “city upon a hill,” for those of you who didn’t complete the 8th grade, comes from John Winthrop’s 1630 sermon entitled “A Model of Christian Charity,” and was intended to suggest that America should act as the ideal template for all the people of the world: “For we must consider that we shall be as a city upon a hill. The eyes of all people are upon us.” Ronald Reagan later used the phrase in his farewell speech after leaving office in ’89. So while I can’t exactly understand what GT front man Mookie Singerman is yelping about, I have to imagine it has something to do with how very, very disappointed he feels in the U.S. of A. these days.

Board Up the House was produced by Converge’s Kurt Ballou, and hits stores February 19.

-AR