The Hope Conspiracy have unfurled the details for their comeback album, “Tools Of Oppression / Rule By Deception“. Due out through Deathwish Inc. on May 31st, that record was tracked with at Kurt Ballou‘s GodCity Studio in Salem, MA with Ballou and Zach Weeks overseeing the engineering.
The latest show of force from that full-length record — the hardcore punk band’s first since 2006 — is the song “Those Who Gave Us Yesterday“. A video for it directed by Jake Mulhern is available below.
Speaking on this track, vocalist Kevin Baker offered:
“America’s greatest export is death and destruction. The decisions and actions of our collective ancestors and past / present leaders have brought us to where we are today. The world is a college of corporations and ‘profit is everything amidst a crumbling vile decay.’ They don’t care about your borders. They don’t care about your flags. They don’t care about your rights. They don’t care about your beliefs. They don’t care about YOU. All of those things are just tools to control and manipulate us. The elites and establishment in charge have no vision for the future other than ultimate power and total control by dividing and subdividing the masses. Our tax dollars are laundered overseas through the war machine. This is the natural order of things today. THEY DON’T CARE… Period.”
“Tools Of Oppression / Rule By Deception” track listing:
01 – “Those Who Gave Us Yesterday”
02 – “The Prophets And Doom”
03 – “A Struggle For Power”
04 – “Live In Fear”
05 – “Shock By Shock”
06 – “Of A Dying Nation”
07 – “Confusion, Chaos, Misery”
08 – “Broken Vessels”
09 – “The West Is Dead”
10 – “The Specter Looms”
You can pre-order through dthw.sh/toorbd.
With Umbra Vitae:
06/07 Cambridge, MA – Sonia (feat. Colin Of Arabia & New Lows)
06/08 Brooklyn, NY – Meadows (feat. This Is Hell & Staticlone)
06/09 Philadelphia, PA – First Unitarian Church (feat. Scarab & Staticlone)
The Hope Conspiracy:
07/20 Chicago, IL – Cobra Lounge (‘The Rumble‘)
