Good Fight Music have signed Racetraitor and will be releasing a new album from the group titled “2042” on October 12th. A music video for the first single, “BLK XMAS“, is available now below with the band’s frontman Mani Mostofi commenting:
“‘BLK XMAS‘ is really about how absurd it is that people, like the Fox News crowd, try to insist that Jesus or even fictional characters like Santa Clause are white. On one hand it is totally absurd and laughable but on the other hand, it goes hand and glove with the type of racist and xenophobic sense of cultural purity that gives rise to something like Trump.
Whether it is ‘Fear of a Black Planet’ or ‘Fear of a Spanish speaking America,’ it’s all propaganda designed to get white people to follow a political line that barely benefits most of them beyond a false sense of superiority.”
He continued:
“The name of the record refers to the date the US is predicted to become a majority-minority country. ‘2042‘ explores different sides of the racist fear and the far right attack on the concept of a majority-minority America. It hits on everything from Trump, the far right media, to xenophobia and Islamophobia.”
The band’s Andrew Hurley (also of Fall Out Boy/The Damned Things) commented further:
“With all that is going on in the world, we are trying to make a record that pulls no punches in the music or the message. We want to inspire punks, hardcore kids, and metalheads and maybe piss off a few racists along the way.”
You can pre-order “2042” now at this location. In other news, a re-release of the group’s 1998 outing “Burn The Idol Of The White Messiah” is also being prepared and will feature three bonus tracks. More details on it are pending.
