Chief Commander · The Great Dictator // Peasant Uprising

The Great Dictator LP · 0 songs

A concept album built like a history that never happened, set in 1918 during a Bloody Red Revolution.

Cinematic folk · Concept album · Eleven songs

A concept album built like a history that never happened, set in 1918 during a Bloody Red Revolution that feels uncomfortably familiar. The sound is expansive and cinematic - folk roots stretched over a world with three characters: a dictator, a soldier, and a Man of Reason, each singing from their corner of a story that doesn't end cleanly. Lukah Stas gets abducted by aliens mid-revolution. The dictator rises anyway. The music follows the journey to the other side through the future and the past.

Tracklist The characters

1918 · A Bloody Red Revolution

Three characters. One story that doesn’t end cleanly.

The Dictator

Ivan Drasko

He rises anyway. Medals, megaphone and money in the air — the voice of a revolution that eats its own.

23 photographs

The Soldier

Lukah Stas

Drafted into someone else's history. Abducted by aliens mid-revolution, and somehow that is not the strangest part of his story.

6 photographs

The Man of Reason

Fox Baron

Faceless by choice. The only one in the room asking why — and the only one nobody listens to.

5 photographs

The Great Dictator · 0 songs

Folk roots stretched over a world.

A dictator, a soldier and a Man of Reason, each singing from their corner.

Next chapter

Peasant Uprising

The second chapter of the Chief Commander story. Coming soon. With Philip Conrad on bass, Bryan Clark on pedal steel and Sami Michelsen on backing vocals.

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The Dictator