Propagandhi Announce New Album “At Peace” & Share Title Track

Following an eight-year hiatus, today, Canada’s Propagandhi have announced that their eighth studio album, At Peace, will be released on the 2nd May via Epitaph Records. In true Propagandhi fashion, At Peace is smart music for dangerous times, the ever-evolving standard bearers of politically charged punk have actively kicked against musical confines and bro-punk conservatism, promoting a message of anti-fascism since 1986. Distilling their DNA of breakneck riffs, hardcore ethos, and radical consciousness, their message remains as vital, and volatile, as ever. The band have shared the album’s title track that is accompanied by an animated lyric video.

“Speaking for myself, this record might be a snapshot of me deciding whether I’m going to live out the rest of my life as Eckhart Tolle or live out the rest of my life as Ted Kaczynski. 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 30 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. 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. 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. 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” (guitarist and vocalist Chris Hannah)

There’s no mistaking that on their first album in eight years, their frontline social activism has been supplanted by a deeper sense of reflection. Nearly a decade later, the members of Propagandhi have a lot on their minds. Marking their first release since 2017’s Victory Lap, At Peace was forged during the ominous political climate in the months before Trump’s ascent to power. Penned shortly before the American oligarch’s suggestion that Propagandhi’s home country become the U.S.’s 51^st State, it was then mixed by Jason Livermore at Blasting Room Studios in December 2024. This collection of poetic and polemic songs captures the anxieties and turmoil of the band’s four members, offering a powerful and poignant portrait of uncertainty. The band will be touring in Europe coming May as part of the Reconstruction Tour 2025 alongside the likes of Pennywise, Comeback Kid, The Iron Roses, Dead Pioneers, Madball, Wizo and Dritte Wahl.