(Photo Credit: Raymond Flotat)
Crossover thrash supergroup Iron Reagan, as their name suggests, has never been one to stay silent regarding political matters. In fact, the band’s vocalist Tony Foresta also fronts Municipal Waste, which made headlines by selling a shirt that featured the recently elected President Elect of the United States Donald Trump shooting himself in the head. But with their blend of hardcore punk and thrash metal, Iron Reagan has consistenly shown an even more politically vocal side with its antiestablishment lyrics.
The band had recently announced their upcoming LP, Crossover Ministry, for February 3rd release via Relapse Records. The album, the band’s third, was recorded by Iron Regan guitarist Phil “Landphil” Hall and mixed by Kurt Ballou. The opening track and lead single, “A Dying World,” presents itself at an opportune (and simultaneously unfortunate) time, with the world seeming like its nearing apocalypse.
“A Dying World” sets a sonic tone for the rest of Crossover Ministry, which shows the Iron Maiden spoof hitting the sweet spot between the straighforward anger of punk and the theactrical, blistering nature of thrash. Instead of trying to bring up any half-baked solution to the state of the world he so laments, Foresta offers an anarchic and nihilist worldview, shouting that there is “no way to save a dying world.”
Throughout its 18 track, 30 minute runtime, Crossover Ministry might help those in despair let out the anger they have undergone in the past election in the form of gleefully nihilistic riffs and loud, shredded vocals.
Check out “A Dying World” below:
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