Buffalo-based hardcore heroes Every Time I Die have just announced their highly anticipated ninth studio album Radical out 22nd October 2021 via Epitaph. Produced by Will Putney (Acacia Strain, Body Count, The Amity Affliction), Radical is the follow-up to 2016’s acclaimed Low Teens.
While inspired by the unrest and upheaval around the world over the past five years, Radical focuses on humanity, decency, self-worth, and even a bit of spirituality more so than politics.
“I’m dealing with difficult matters this time that isn’t only personal for me but are also universal and more communal experiences,” vocalist Keith Buckley explains. “The songs are realistic in that they acknowledge that things require a lot of work. But it’s ultimately a very hopeful and uplifting record.”
Watch below the band’s video for the new track, “Post-Boredom“.
“‘Post-Boredom’ was the first song I ever wrote that gave me the feeling of real Truth,” Keith Buckley explains. “I wasn’t hiding any secret confessions in metaphors, I was very much fed up with living an unfulfilling life and felt that I needed a death (either figuratively or literally) in order to have a fighting chance at finding new meaning. I see this song from a distance. It’s reflective but also, finally, detached. not a full ego death, but indicative that the process needed to start immediately in my own life. If you read the lyrics and it resonates with you, then you also need to recognise that you might be feeling unseen in your current form. So, what are YOU going to do about it if given the gift of death?”
Radical tracklist and artwork:
Dark Distance
Sly
Planet Shit
Post-Boredom
A Colossal Wreck
Desperate Pleasures
All This And War
Thing With Feathers
Hostile Architecture
AWOL
The Whip
White Void
Distress Rehearsal
sexsexsex
People Verses
We Go Together