BAD RELIGION - The Empire Strikes First (U.S. Import) - LP - Vinyl [APR 19]

LP - Black Vinyl. Limited U.S. Import.

Reissue from 2004. The Empire Strikes First... 14 songs that are fresh, focused, and absolutely alive in the way that great rock ‘n’ roll energizes everything it touches.

It’s been a long road from their early-80s beginnings, but these days, the primary concerns of Graffin and Gurewitz are not the band’s intricate (and subtle) years-long evolution; they’re first and foremost topical songwriters focused on domestic chaos and its global manifestation.

Bad Religion is, after all, the oufiit that, during the first Gulf War in 1991, shared a Maximum Rock ‘n’ Roll split seven-inch with radical MIT professor Noam Chomsky, who, like them, is locked into the tense present and dedicated to exposing the forces who lie and disguise to deepen and enforce human misery.

Tracklist: 

A1. Overture
A2. Sinister Rouge
A3. Social Suicide
A4. Atheist Peace
A5. All There Is
A6. Los Angeles Is Burning
A7. Let Them Eat War [Feat. Sage Francis]
A8. God's Love

B1. To Another Abyss
B2. The Quickening
B3. The Empire Strikes First
B4. Beyond Electric Dreams
B5. Boot Stamping On A Human Face Forever
B6. Live Again (The Fall Of Man)