Bad Religion udgiver nyt album Age of Unreason den 3. Maj
Efterhånden legendariske Bad Religion udgiver nyt album den 3. maj, med navnet Age of Unreason, hos Epitaph Records / Playground Music i Norden. Siden gruppens start har de standhaftigt været fortaler for humanisme, fornuft og individualisme. Nu hvor disse værdier, ifølge bandet, er i forfald og nationalisme og fordomme er på vej frem, har Bad Religions budskab aldrig været mere essentielt.
“The band has always stood for enlightenment values,” forklare sangskriver og guitarist Brett Gurewitz. “Today, these values of truth, freedom, equality, tolerance, and science, are in real danger. This record is our response.”
Sangene på Age of Unreason er både rasende og sirligt udarbejdet. Der er referencer til nutidige begivenheder; racistiske samlinger, Trumps valg, erosionen af middelklassen, Colin Kaepernicks protest, fake news, konspirations teorier og der er hyldest til de litterære og filosofiske værker, der længe har inspireret bandet.
Nummeret ’Chaos From Within’ gør brug af bandets ikoniske hurtige, stærke og melodiske lyd til at undersøge den nuværende grænsevægs kontrovers med teksterne: “Threat is urgent, existential / with patience wearing thin / but the danger's elemental / it’s chaos from within.” Som sangskriver og sanger i bandet Greg Graffin siger: “Throughout history, walls have been used to keep the barbarians out, but it seems to me that the truly barbaric aspect of a civilization is the chaos that comes from within.”
Du kan høre ’Chaos From Within’ HER
Dette album er både en dyster advarsel og et testemente til modstandskraften. Den overordnede besked er - søg sandheden om verden og dig selv. Som Graffin, der har en PhD i videnskabens historie, siger: “When I saw all these headlines about how terrible our world had become, I started doing a lot of reading. I read about the French revolution, the American Revolution, the Civil War, and I started to recognize that this is a pattern of history and something we should never venture into. There are ample warnings against it. Every school child should know this but it’s hard to get people to read about these things. Maybe this album can help. Because right now, with social media, we are just playing a version of kill the guy with the ball.”
Sangene på Age of Unreason er både rasende og sirligt udarbejdet. Der er referencer til nutidige begivenheder; racistiske samlinger, Trumps valg, erosionen af middelklassen, Colin Kaepernicks protest, fake news, konspirations teorier og der er hyldest til de litterære og filosofiske værker, der længe har inspireret bandet.
Nummeret ’Chaos From Within’ gør brug af bandets ikoniske hurtige, stærke og melodiske lyd til at undersøge den nuværende grænsevægs kontrovers med teksterne: “Threat is urgent, existential / with patience wearing thin / but the danger's elemental / it’s chaos from within.” Som sangskriver og sanger i bandet Greg Graffin siger: “Throughout history, walls have been used to keep the barbarians out, but it seems to me that the truly barbaric aspect of a civilization is the chaos that comes from within.”
Du kan høre ’Chaos From Within’ HER
Dette album er både en dyster advarsel og et testemente til modstandskraften. Den overordnede besked er - søg sandheden om verden og dig selv. Som Graffin, der har en PhD i videnskabens historie, siger: “When I saw all these headlines about how terrible our world had become, I started doing a lot of reading. I read about the French revolution, the American Revolution, the Civil War, and I started to recognize that this is a pattern of history and something we should never venture into. There are ample warnings against it. Every school child should know this but it’s hard to get people to read about these things. Maybe this album can help. Because right now, with social media, we are just playing a version of kill the guy with the ball.”
