Legendary SoCal punks Bad Religion announce album number 15 in year number 30.
Punk's not dead necessarily. It's just hitting its definitive third decade, if Bad Religion are anything to go by, forming in Southern California in 1979.Then they spent thirty years essentially defining the SoCal punk rock sound, not least in part due to their guitarist Brett Gurewitz creating Epitaph Records and signing scores of soundalike bands.
So it comes to Bad Religion's fifteenth album Dissent Of Man, released in this landmark year.
Primary songwriters Gurewitz and singer Greg Griffin are saying that the writing process had the feeling of stone cold classics like Recipe For Hate and Stranger Than Fiction.
Gurewitz says, "These are some of my favourite songs I've ever written. A few of them took me way outside my comfort zone as a writer…"
And after admitting their last couple of albums rarely strayed from the trademark Bad Religion sound, he says, "on this one we're taking the songs to a lot of different places, exploring our influences and trying out some new things in a way we haven't done in years."
The first single, 'The Devil In Stitches', certainly sees them slowing down for a power pop anthem.
The Dissent Of Man was produced by Joe Barresi, who has previously worked with Queens Of The Stone Age and Tool.
It will be released on September 24 and on Epitaph (of course).
