OTEP has signed with Victory Records and are preparing their new album Smash the Control Machnie for an August 18 2009 release. Of the new OTEP/Victory alliance, Otep Shamaya said “this is exactly the kind of circumstance I have been waiting for. I believe my creative, intellectual and political instincts and inclinations will flourish”. The new album borrows its title from a William S. Burrough’s poem, and focuses on a number of topical issues such as the economic crisis and the American working family.