Grail Guard Scream For Change On Upcoming “Still No Future” Album

Forged in anger, solidarity and decades of shared experience, Grail Guard have announced the release of their debut album, Still No Future, via TNSrecords on the 6th March, and the band will also be appearing at the 2026 Manchester Punk Festival. Still No Future draws a stark and deliberate line between the 1970s and today. The Sex Pistols shouted No Future in 1977 and with this album Grail Guard scream there is Still No Future as many are facing the same traumatic experiences as those of the last fifty years. Anger and rage are two well trodden paths in Punk. These paths are used to navigate out of troubled landscapes and encourage new voices to emerge. Those voices continue to call out hypocrisy, and greed and shout for change. Protest has been the beating heart of punk and is needed now more than ever. Young people of today still face many challenges that are the same as fifty years ago.

Grail Guard’s frontman and lyricist, Riaz grew up as a British, Indian Muslim in a working class midlands town. Regularly facing calls from racists to ‘go back to your own country’ he has been part of DIY punk, socialist, anti-fascist and anti-racism movements since he was a child in the late 90’s. Marching for change, fighting for a better future, Riaz is seeing his three daughters face the same prejudice as him thanks to the continued rise of Britain First, Reform and the wide reaching anti-immigration sentiment that floods our screens daily. Still No Future is rage. Still No Future is anger. It reflects the current political, social and economic climate but could have easily existed at the very start of punk: a timeless album that hopes to bring about positive change at a particularly negative point in history. The country needs a change.