Anti-Flag announce new album ‘LIES THEY TELL OUR CHILDREN’

ANTI-FLAG have announced a brand new album!

Titled LIES THEY TELL OUR CHILDREN, the upcoming album from the American punk band is the follow-up to 2020’s 20/20 Vision, and is scheduled to be released in January next year, via Spinefarm Records.

The upcoming album was recorded, produced and mixed by Jon Lundin and features a host of notable guests including RISE AGAINST‘s Tim Mcllrath, KILLSWITCH ENGAGE‘s Jesse Leach, SILVERSTEIN‘s Shane Told and more.

Speaking about the upcoming album, the band says, “look, this is our 13th album. There’s no other way to put it; Lies They Tell Our Children is the best fucking version of ANTI-FLAG we have ever been. We haven’t been afforded the privilege and ability to spend every day together writing and focusing on every detail of an album in well over a decade and I think you can feel that collaboration and collectiveness in these songs more than any other record of ours. That collaboration was only extrapolated on with the inclusion of the eight guests who are featured on the album, spanning genres, years of friendship, and a vast array of perspectives.

The album itself is the first conceptual album the band has ever done, spawned out of a compulsive need to not just comment on the dystopian corporate wasteland we all face but to trace it back to the origin of this fate; the political policies, laws, cultural shifts, and lineage of injustice that have led us to the world we live in today. Like the band itself, of course the album is an anti-war statement both in the literal and figurative sense. This is an important moment in history and demands an urgent response, but we thought it was also important that we retrace our footsteps to the beginning of these issues. In order to better understand how to eradicate climate devastation, imperialism, war based economics, systems predicated upon racism, and the increasing belief that these things do not even exist, you have got to take people to the source. This idea is the crux of the Lies They Tell Our Children; put this wretched history in their face and demand their empathy.”

Alongside the announcement of the new album, ANTI-FLAG have released a new music video for a new song lifted from the upcoming album; LAUGH. CRY. SMILE. DIE.. The new song features a guest appearance from SILVERSTEIN‘s Shane Told and the accompanying music video was filmed by INDECLINE Activist Art Collective.

Watch the official music video for LAUGH. CRY. SMILE. DIE. here:

Also, you can view both the track list and artwork for the upcoming new album below:

Track List: 

1. SOLD EVERYTHING
2. MODERN META MEDICINE (Feat. Jesse Leach of KILLSWITCH ENGAGE)
3. LAUGH. CRY. SMILE. DIE. (Feat. Shane Told of SILVERSTEIN)
4. THE FIGHT OF OUR LIVES (Feat. Tim McIlrath of RISE AGAINST + Brian Baker of BAD RELIGION)
5. IMPERIALISM (Feat. Ashrita Kumar of PINKSHIFT)
6. VICTORY OR DEATH (WE GAVE ’EM HELL) (Feat. Campino of DIE TOTEN HOSEN)
7. THE HAZARDOUS
8. SHALLOW GRAVES” (Feat. Tré Burt)
9. WORK & STRUGGLE
10. NVREVR (Feat. Stacey Dee of BAD COP/BAD COP)
11. ONLY IN MY HEAD

Lies They Tell Our Children is set for release on January 6th via Spinefarm Records. Pre-orders are available now and can be purchased here. The band are currently touring mainland Europe and the UK, check out the tour dates here!

For more information on ANTI-FLAG like their official page on Facebook.