Great American Ghost announce new album ‘Tragedy Of The Commons’
GREAT AMERICAN GHOST have announced a new album!
Titled Tragedy Of The Commons, the upcoming album from the Boston-based hardcore band is the follow-up to 2020’s Power Through Terror, and is scheduled to be released in January next year, via SharpTone Records.
On the Will Putney produced record, the band intend to transmit their message without filter delivered through a combination of basement-born hardcore spirit, staggering metallic precision, polemic lyrical provocations, and unexpectedly arresting melodies.
Set on examining our basest instincts as a society, vocalist Ethan Harrison says, “we are a political band, and we always have been. We integrate ‘extreme views’ into what we do, which is ‘extreme music’. Rather than write another generally political album, we tried to play into broader themes of hopelessness. Normal people are losing control on a constant basis. Tragedy Of The Commons is a statement about exploitation. If two people share finite resources, one person will eventually exploit those resources and hurt the other person. Citizens don’t have enough money to eat and live in this country, but our government is spending billions on funding other armies around the world that are being used to kill other poor people. Tragedy Of The Commons boils down to this fundamental exploitation of the less fortunate.”
Alongside the announcement of the new album, GREAT AMERICAN GHOST have released a new music video for a new song lifted from the upcoming album; Lost In The Outline. The new song is the third single to be released from the upcoming album, following on from Forsaken and Hymn Of Decay.
“As a human, you’re often just a rat on a wheel,” guitarist Grayson Stewart observes. “You’re moving forward in your perspective, but you’re never actually accomplishing anything. Lost In The Outline gets into the lies you’re told when you’re young. You come to this realization that you have no agency over what happens to you or what you do. You’re a cog in the machine.”
Watch the official music video for Lost In The Outline here:
Also, you can view both the track list and artwork for the upcoming new album below:
Track List:
1. Kerosene
2. Echoes of War
3. Lost In The Outline
4. Forsaken
5. Ghost In Flesh
6. Writhe
7. Genocide
8. Hymn of Decay
9. Chapel Paralysis
10. Reality//Relapse
11. God Is A Loaded Gun
Tragedy Of The Commons is set for release on January 31st via SharpTone Records. Pre-orders are available now and can be purchased here.
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