ANNOUNCE NEW EP ‘NIGHTMARES OF THE WEST’ OUT JULY 17TH AND RELEASE NEW SINGLE ‘DRESS THE WOUNDS’.

Punk veterans Strike Anywhere have signed to Pure Noise Records and announced the band’s first new music since 2009. ‘Nightmares Of The West’ will be released on July 17th, 2020. The band also released the brand new song ‘Dress The Wounds’.

‘Nightmares Of The West’ might be Strike Anywhere’s first new music in over a decade, but in some ways the five-piece hasn’t changed at all. These seven songs – six brand new originals and a cover of ‘Opener’ by London punks Blocko – are as full of fire and fury as anything the band has written since forming in Richmond, VA in 1999. At the same time, this EP infuses the band’s ideological vision with the perspective its members have now, both as people in general, but also as political activists and musicians currently living in the USA – somewhere that’s markedly different from how it was when ‘Iron Front’, their last album, was released in 2009.

“We wanted to write things that we felt really fresh about and that revealed something new” explains vocalist Thomas Barnett. “It was almost like this refresh, this restart, where we found ways to write songs that not only moved us, but also reflected the times and our ages. But we definitely feel inspired, and this record is a platform for us to hopefully – in time – play shows, connect with community, and help keep those little fires lit in ourselves and in others through the music and those shared experiences. These songs are the conversations that we want to have and the feelings that we still really need to share”.

Recorded, like the band’s four albums to date, at Salad Days Studio in Baltimore by Brian McTernan, ‘Nightmares Of The West’ starts with the blistering ‘Documentary’ – a song riddled with an overwhelming sense of loss, and contempt and disgust with what society has become – before crashing into the impetuous, breathless rush of ‘Dress The Wounds’. Elsewhere, ‘Frontier Glitch’ is an aggressive yet melodic burst of defiance and pissed-offness that also contains the line from which this EP takes its powerful, provocative title – one that cements, if there were any doubt, the purpose and the meaning driving these songs.

‘Nightmares Of The West’ Tracklisting:

1. Documentary
2. Dress The Wounds
3. The Bells
4. Frontier Glitch
5. Imperium Of Waste
6. Opener
7. We Make The Road By Walking