“Twenty years ago, we had a sense that things are fucked…” Canada’s thrash metal rockers PROPAGANDHI bite back with new album

CANADA’s thrash metal rockers PROPAGANDHI return to form with new album ‘At Peace’ (via Epitaph), along with lyric video for focus track, ‘No Longer Young.’

“The song is about the search to find or revive one’s true spirit despite the pressure and negativity of the present world, and hopefully it’s a little inspiration to keep on working towards a more just world,” said bassist, Todd Kowalski. “It’s also a reminder that no one is any better than anyone else. In the end we all return to dust.”

Promoting anti-fascism since 1986, the band’s message remains as vital, and volatile, as ever, with ‘At Peace’ being Propagandhi’s plea for hope against hopelessness. 

“Twenty years ago, we had a sense that things are fucked but that there could be a mass mobilization of people against the oligarchy, the billionaire class,” said vocalist, Chris Hannah. “I don’t think that exists much in our music anymore and I don’t believe that mobilization is forthcoming. I hope to be proven wrong.

“We’re definitely not a band that responds well to someone telling us we need to put something out, that happens when we have something to talk about and now is definitely the time for that. Everything I’m singing about is still coming from being the same person that wrote and sang our first record ‘How to Clean Everything,’ in 1993.

“But what we’re putting into the songs now, probably reflects more despair than thirty years ago when we had similar perspectives, but with strands of hope and naivete. Now it’s the existential dread of eking out a life worth living in this completely failed society.”

Joining Hannah and Kowalski in the band are Jord Samolesky (drums), and Sulynn Hago (guitar).

‘At Peace’ was mixed by Jason Livermore (Rise Against, Hot Water Music) at Blasting Room Studios during December 2024.

RECONSTRUCTION TOUR 2025:  
May 16: Barcelona, Poble Español 
May 17: Milan, Carroponte 
May 18: Zürich, X-tra 
May 20: Ljubljana, Kino Siska 
May 21: Vienna, Arena Open Air 
May 23: Augsburg, Gaswerk Open Air 
May 24: Berendrecht, Booswegske 
May 25: Wiesbaden, Schlachthof 
May 27: Cologne, Live Music Hall 
May 28: Amsterdam, Melkweg 
May 29: Hamburg, Docks 
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