Victory Records has signed OTEP. The first release under the new alliance is Otep’s highly anticipated fourth full-length studio album Smash the Control Machine. The new studio album will be released August 18, 2009.

Vocalist Otep Shamaya says of the album, “The economic crisis is hitting every working family in this country. The album and its title track, Smash The Control Machine, will lay bare the greed and corruption that fostered this calamity, but will also focus on the undying spirit of the working class that always fights the good fight. The title is a line from a William S. Burroughs poem. It is my intention to create an album that serves every head of the hydra that is Otep. From poetry, to politics, to shock and awe, to sex and righteousness, to standing up and fighting back. Like the mystical symbol of the Ouroboros (the sacred serpent swallowing its tail) all things will be brought back to circle.”

Check out our interview with Otep Shamaya here.