Track By Tracks: The Chop - GhostBeef (2022)

1. THE CURLING FIELDS:

The story of the employees, who toil endlessly under the fist of a cruel overlord named John Arby.

Hours before dawn, the meager huts begin to empty. A line of sharecroppers assemble, beholden to a cruel overlord who demands production at all costs. Their only chance to stave off a quick and unceremonious death is to feed the machine of their oppression, to break their backs to tend the curling fields.

2. THE LEGEND OF JOHN ARBY:

The story of how John Arby rose to power, is told from the perspective of the cows he enslaved. Shift your attention now to the never-ending line of livestock. The poor souls who thought they had found their salvation in an overlord who prophesied of sustenance without end, never revealing the terrible price...

3. FATTED CALVES:

Why does Arby’s hate children? There are no toys, no lovable characters, and only the stinging taste of horseradish awaits any little ones who dare enter. Whenever there is oppression, the ones that suffer the most are the children. Where is the bounty they were promised? Their meals turn to ashes on their tongues...

4. GET IN LINE:

The story of the consumers, and the marketing that brings them in droves. No machine can operate without the consumers. Lured with the promise of a bountiful plate to sate every craving, the customers submit to a regime that poisons their bodies and minds. Knowing no other world, they willingly get in line.

5. LORD OF THE BEEFLANDS:

Finally, we hear from the tyrant himself, as he stumps for the proletariat and reminds them of the bounty he has wrought.

Who commands in this ruined landscape? How did this man-become-god vanquish all competitors to reign supreme over the newly-made world? Few remember, but all must bow to the lord of the beef lands.

6. MEATCRAFT:

The story of the priestly class, who tend the beef, craft the recipes, and (possibly) pull the strings of government.

Who sells this mummer‘s farce to the unsuspecting masses? Without the priests, no mythology can take root. True believers turn to their manufactured god and ply their trade...

7. SMOKE MOUNTAIN:

The story of an orphan, destined to challenge the status quo directly, in his fortress, and vanquish him once and for all.

What comes next? No system can persist without a correction, an anomaly within the system that brings everything back to Smoke Mountain.