Broken Vow announce debut album ‘Anthropocene’

August 21, 2023 Ellis Heasley

BROKEN VOW have announced their debut album!

Titled Anthropocene, the debut album from the New England-based hardcore band follows their 2021 EP Sane Minds End and is scheduled to be released in September this year via Triple B Records.

The band worked with Chaz at The Spot in New Haven, CT for recording and mixing, and the album was mastered by Will Killingsworth (ORCHID) at Dead Air Studios in Amherst, MA.

Speaking about the themes and influences on the record, vocalist Tommy Harte comments, “When writing the lyrics for this album I was heavily influenced by bands who tackled a wide variety of subject matter in a cohesive and thought provoking way. UNDYING, EARTH CRISIS, CHOKEHOLD, and the more political-leaning Bridge Nine bands provided a lot of inspiration in that respect. The bulk of songs on this record are about humanity’s relationship with the earth, the pressing issue of our time. The generation this band comes from is one that never really knew environmental peace and from a young age has had to grapple with feelings of doom, guilt, and confusion around the topic. I’m not a genius, or an inventor, or a problem solver but I am a human, so that seemed the best angle to come at it from. This record is about the anger that comes from watching those in power fail to slow our culture’s ever-quickening descent into environmental and social destruction. It’s about feeling hopeless and still refusing to give up hope. It’s about empowering the everyman, who has been taught to be at peace with his powerlessness. But most importantly it’s about not being alienated from your own humanity despite the pressures of our culture and civilization. It is within this humanity that we will find the power to influence the change necessary to salvage what’s left of the world.”

Alongside the announcement of the album, the band have released its lead single 1.5. Speaking about the track, Harte adds, “Every year we lose 1.5% of wild nature to development, extinction, and general human intervention. This song is about the objective truth that humanity is squandering the privilege of the earth. This is not our dominion, and if we wish to survive we must exist in harmony with the earth and cease to view it as a foe to conquer.”

Listen to 1.5 here: