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Clutch, Alpha Wolf, Paleface Swiss And More Announced For 2027 Froth & Fury Festival https://www.byteseu.com/2233844/ #AlphaWolf #CarpenterBrut #Clutch #CorrosionOfConformity #Counterparts #DeathToAll #Igorrr #PalefaceSwiss #Propagandhi #Switzerland

https://www.europesays.com/ch/108736/ Clutch, Alpha Wolf, Paleface Swiss And More Announced For 2027 Froth & Fury Festival #AlphaWolf #CarpenterBrut #Clutch #CorrosionOfConformity #counterparts #DeathToAll #Igorrr #PalefaceSwiss #Propagandhi #Swiss #Switzerland

Clutch, Alpha Wolf, Paleface Swiss, Carpenter Brut, Etc. Booked For 2027 ‘Froth & Fury’ Festival

The first wave of artists for the 2027 ‘Froth & Fury‘ festival have been unveiled. Next year’s annual…
#NewsBeep #News #Music #AlphaWolf #AU #Australia #CarpenterBrut #Clutch #CorrosionOfConformity #Counterparts #DeathToAll #Entertainment #Igorrr #PalefaceSwiss #Propagandhi
https://www.newsbeep.com/au/813622/

Froth & Fury Fest 2027 Reveals Stacked First Lineup

Froth & Fury Fest is returning to Adelaide in 2027, and the first wave of acts confirms it…
#Australia #Adelaide #28Days #AlphaWolf #CarpenterBrut #Clutch #corrosionofconformity #counterparts #DarkAngel #DeathtoAll #FoxLake #Froth&FuryFest #Froth&FuryFest2027 #Froth&FuryFestlineup #Igorrr #PalefaceSwiss #Propagandhi #RaccoonCity #Ratsalad #SierraVeins #TheBerzerker #TruthCorroded #Wayside
https://www.europesays.com/australia/54772/

Clutch, Alpha Wolf, Paleface Swiss, Carpenter Brut, Etc. Booked For 2027 ‘Froth & Fury’ Festival https://www.byteseu.com/2213934/ #AlphaWolf #CarpenterBrut #Clutch #CorrosionOfConformity #Counterparts #DeathToAll #Igorrr #PalefaceSwiss #Propagandhi #Switzerland

I spent much of the summer of 2020 languishing in my bedroom. There, I discovered new/new-to-me music at an unprecedented rate. Bat Out of Hell, Mana, Endarkenment, The Pagan Manifesto—escapism or catharsis, I needed it all. But one record stands out to me as the Covid album, and that’s Protest the Hero’s Palimpsest. A buckwild interrogation of the American Dream through historical reinterpretation via orchestral progressive metalcore, it took me away from the present moment while still working out the societal demons and frustrations that surrounded me. It’s dope. 2020 AOTY. Six years later, the Canucks are back, bearing their first independent release Within. With the perennial lineup of singer Rody Walker and guitarists Luke Hoskin and Tim MacMiller, joined by session bassist Cameron McLellan and drummer Nathan Bulla, can Protest the Hero capture the zeitgeist as they did back in those dark times?

Would you believe that Within is another frenetically bombastic opus of proggy, punky goodness? Well, you’d better! Protest the Hero haven’t skipped a beat when it comes to controlled chaos, slathering Within with winding, propulsive vocal runs, drum fills, and guitar tweedily-dweedilies. Echoes of Palimpsest’s symphonic grandeur remain in cuts like “Liberty Spike” and “Mouthpiece,” but Protest the Hero on Within take that grandiosity and hone it into a sharper, punkier blitz on “Fishhook” and “The Orchard,” recalling Rise Against or Propagandhi to me. But Protest the Hero also relishes in unadulterated progressive metal, bouncing around ridiculous rhythms on closer “The Mariner” and asking on “Grandfather’s Axe” what it’d sound like if At the Drive-In and Faith No More jammed over a Testament riff. Interludes “i. above” and “ii. below” offer brief but crucial respite, as Within has a ton to say and licks to play and only thirty-nine minutes to do so. Through Within, Protest the Hero take yet another massive, victorious step in their sonic evolution.

What sticks with me after every listen of Within is how gobsmackingly beautiful it sounds. Protest the Hero have long known how to tie heartstring-tugging melody into their compositions,1 but Within is exceptional even by their own standards. For how hectic the guitar runs on “Grandfather’s Axe” and “The Orchard” are, they still manage to raise goosebumps by their bespoke melodicism. At the core of Protest the Hero’s exquisiteness is Walker’s emotive vocals. Some may find his deliveries too eclectic, injecting enough bizarre inflections and hybrid clean-harsh lines for the average System of a Down song, but there’s no doubting the talent and heartfelt power behind his voice. Like on Palimpsest, Protest the Hero can send a song home in truly hair-raising fashion on Within, like in the fist-pumping conclusion of “Mouthpiece,” the chest-beating lamentations of “The Orchard,”2 or the emotionally-charged apex of “The Mariner.” In these climactic moments, Protest the Hero’s melodic sensibilities shine brightest.

Crucially, Within’s jitteriness and elegance are all in service to its lyrics and themes. Playing off the axiom of “As within, so without,” Protest the Hero explore how one’s outer world shapes one’s inner world. Songs on Within expound on this idea by existing in concert with each other. “Mouthpiece” proudly beats the “No War but Class War” drum while follow-up “Fishhook” details the speaker’s strident relationship with his crotchety old neighbor, complicating that call to unity. “Grandfather’s Axe” and “The Orchard” both deal with nostalgia, with the former seemingly about clinging to the past for personal identity3 while the latter wrestles with communal legacies being erased by capital greed. Finally, the final duo highlights the vitality of community for personal support and meaning; “Liberty Spike” sees what happens when someone is deprived of it, while “The Mariner” shows what happens when it saves someone. Every victory, every tragedy, every aching and bleeding heart Protest the Hero have to offer are in service to these ideas on Within. And man, it works.

I fell in love with Protest the Hero when it seemed society was dying. Within arrives to help remind me that Man’s Better Nature may one day win out. Within may not be as grand or thematically poignant as Palimpsest, but it’s leaner, more personal, and just as brazenly weird and charmingly earnest as Protest the Hero has ever been. Within can make you mad if you let it. It can make you weep internally and, if you’re given to that sort of thing, externally, too. Now go hug your mothers and quit being a dick to your neighbors!

Rating: Great!
DR: 74 | Format Reviewed: 256 kbps MP3
Label: Independent
Websites: protestthehero.ca | facebook.com/protestthehero | protestthehero.bandcamp.com
Releases Worldwide: July 17th, 2026

Samguineous Maximus

Even for the largest artists in a particular subgenre, music is always a fight to maintain. Bands aren’t so much static guarantees as they are constant negotiations between careers, families, artistic stagnation, diminishing returns, and ever-present global enshittification. Protest the Hero is a band that understands this better than most, as the Canadian prog-metallers have endured significant stylistic and personnel changes over their 20+ year career. Their evolution has remained compelling, from the Dostoyevsky-inspired brashness of debut Kezia to the nautical expanse of Pacific Myth, but 2020’s Palimpsest represents their ultimate apotheosis. That record found Rody Walker holding a grim mirror to modern America, using vignettes from the nation’s past to illuminate its present calamities, while Luke Hoskin’s compositions finally gave those ideas the space and gravitas they demanded, bolstered by gorgeous orchestration. It felt like the culmination of the band’s musical evolution and remains one of my favorite albums of all time. Six years later, Within arrives with enormous shoes to fill. Despite another apparent personnel shift, it was reportedly composed much like its predecessor. So, how does it measure up—not only to Palimpsest, but to the rest of their formidable discography?

Within doesn’t follow directly in the sonic footsteps of its immediate predecessor; instead, it presents an awe-inspiring amalgamation of the band’s prior efforts, informed by the songwriting lessons showcased on Palimpsest. Protest the Hero still sound unmistakably like themselves, providing that signature blend of sugar-rush, major key energy, maximalist guitar pyrotechnics, and sneering operatic vocals resulting in their trademark punk-driven progressive metalcore. These songs mostly split the difference between the passion-forward, chaotic post-hardcore of Volition and the more considered songwriting acrobatics of Pacific Myth, then drape the whole thing in Palimpsest’s cinematic nuance—albeit with subtler, less telegraphed versions of that record’s customary third-quarter pullbacks. Across six proper tracks and two orchestral interludes, the band pinballs between ADHD-brain guitar catnip, absurdly sticky melodic choruses, and lyrical climaxes that detonate with undeniable pathos. What’s most impressive is how deftly PtH weaves these moments into cohesive compositions. The tracklist contains clear sonic distinctions, from gang-vocal-fueled punk onslaughts (“Grandfather’s Axe”) to wide-open, hook-driven expanses (“The Orchard”), yet each song pivots so naturally between contrasting sections that, even at peak instrumental maximalism, the result feels immediately listenable rather than merely “look-at-me” impressive.

It’s a given that the performances on this thing would be monstrous, but where PtH always excels is using their absurd technicality to augment the thematic push and pull of their compositions. Luke Hoskin’s insane guitar theatrics5 lend a sense of urgency and immediacy to a song like “Mouthpiece,” where intense single-note runs and grandiose tapping loops bring serious gravitas to an anthem decrying political division. Elsewhere, clipped jazz chords underscore the hopeful wistfulness of “The Orchard.” Hoskin remains a master of layering complex, interlocking guitar melodies and punctuating them with orchestral bursts, and the way every element coalesces around massive, show-stopping peaks—most notably during the climax of progtastic Haken-flecked closer “The Mariner”—never fails to sound both beautifully consonant and utterly jaw-dropping. On the kit, newcomer Nathan Bulla delivers an energetic performance rooted in punk beats, filling his ass off in close step with the strings and giving a classic, driving energy to cuts like the Propaghandi-laced “Fishhook.” All of this sets the stage for Rody Walker’s most confident vocal showing yet. He brings the same endlessly charismatic, sky-scraping voice we love him for, but varies his approach to meet each scintillating line, shifting fluidly between expressive, choked inflections, death growls, and rapid-fire delivery while sounding utterly earnest at every turn.

As its title suggests, Within is an album of personal reflection, with Walker using each song to examine both his own place and Protest the Hero’s place in a world where everything personal, including art and music, feels increasingly threatened by an uncaring, ever-worsening political reality. Walker has always worn his heart on his sleeve as a lyricist, and some listeners may find his directness a little much6, but given the deeply personal nature of this material, I’ll be damned if it isn’t some of the most hopelessly honest and immediately moving music I’ve heard all year. A powerful narrative and thematic current runs through the record as its focus shifts from explicitly political material (“Mouthpiece,” “Fishhook”) to the intersections of artistic legacy, imagined pasts, and nostalgic longing (“Grandfather’s Axe,” “The Orchard”), before arriving at metaphorical loss and the acceptance of one’s place in the world (“Liberty Spike,” “The Mariner”). Several nods to earlier PtH works deepen that reflection, from recurring water imagery recalling Pacific Myth to “The Mariner” directly reprising a melody from Palimpsest’s “The Migrant Mother.” Paired with the supremely effective music, these threads elevate Within into a mature career retrospective: a conscious attempt to confront the band’s legacy, decide what remains meaningful, and make peace with where it now stands.

Within is a very different Protest the Hero record from Palimpsest, but it is no less stunning, musically or thematically. On my first few listens, I wasn’t immediately sold on the more direct subject matter, shorter runtime, or less cinematic approach. With time, however, it has revealed itself as another brilliant jewel in the band’s already gilded crown; the affirmation of and justification of a continued legacy. This is an album that just feels like sheer catharsis. The kind that catches you off guard, works its way into your shower-singing rotation, and somehow leaves you misty-eyed after the twentieth spin.7 Within is a special record, one that repeatedly hammers the “big feels” button while sounding like impossibly earnest tech death for the beardless. Do yourself a favor and hear it.

Rating: 4.5/5.0

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #KEXP's #SonicReducer Propagandhi: 🎵 Homophobes Are Just Pissed ’Cause They Can’t Get Laid #Propagandhi ▶️ 🪄 Automagic 🔊 show 📻 playlist on Spotify ▶️ Song/Cover on Bandcamp:

Homophobes Are Just Pissed 'Ca...

Oh wow, who could've seen it coming?

The militarisation of every day language is now being used in reverse by the military to convince you (ie: convince kids) that you are already part-military, and really why don't you just join at this point, right?

This is just the continuation of decade long efforts to recruit kids through sport and video games and now the gamer subculture, cf. "America's Army™ (Die Jugend Marschiert)" from #Propagandhi's crucial 2005 album, Potemkin City Limits.

**Lyrics from artists website with format preserved**
**image from Gaza Poets Society on SubStack** (link w/ trackers stripped): https://substack.com/@gazapoetssociety

# Haillie Sellasse, Up Your Ass
## By Propagandhi

You speak of Rastafari, but how can you justify belief in a God that’s left you behind. You simply fill the gap between the upper and lower class and your faith merely keeps you in line. An amalgamation of jewish scripture and christian thought. What will that get you? Not a fucking fuck of a lot. Take a look at your promised land. Your deed is that gun in your hand. Mt. Zion’s a minefield. The West Bank. The Gaza strip… Soon to be parking lots for American tourists and fascist cops. Fuck zionism. Fuck militarism. Fuck americanism. Fuck nationalism. Fuck religion.

https://invidious.nerdvpn.de/watch?v=YcOf1LYU0wU

#anarchism #FuckZionism #FacismIsFascism #Propagandhi

# top 10 albums last week (04/06-04/12/2026)
it's been a #Propagandhi kinda week. when the president of your country threatens to nuke another country, anarcho-punk is the only music that'll scratch that "glad i'm not in DC right now or i'd be headed to prison" itch.

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text list with corrected albums in alt-text. Some tracks get scrobbled with the wrong album when they share the same recording, discographies mostly. i did find a solution, but it's a bit of a pain. explanation in reply if interested.

Scrobbled via @ListenBrainz

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my favorite artists this week:
- Propagandhi
- Limp Wrist
- Slightly Stoopid

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#GiveHimTheOlMussolini #TheOnlyGoodFascistIsAVeryDeadFascist #anarchism #Punk #angryfaggots

#ListenBrainzMonday
#musicbrainz

This might be the first time I've seen my personal favourite album of a year top a list. 😂 Actually, the top 3 are all my faves from 2025.

#punk #propagandhi #turnstile #ViagraBoys

It's Canadian Music Thursday! 🇨🇦

*Time to come to terms with mankind’s default mode.*

Cat Guy — Propagandhi

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y4LUHJmPRHE
#CanConThursday #music #propagandhi #punk #hardcore #metal

RE: https://mastodon.social/@onlmaps/115940290129266546

Voir les paroles de #Propagandhi devenir réalité.

🤘🥳🤘

Woo-hoo!

#Music #punk #Propagandhi

It took six years, but I finally got a proper frame for this signed poster from my favourite band. Second favourite album, but it does have a song named after my favourite Propagandhi album. #propagandhi #punk

Dunno why we waited so long to decouple from the US (economy and otherwise).... #propagandhi already predicted this over 20 years ago...

We were warned....

"A Speculative Fiction

A new iron curtain drawn across the 49th parallel. Cut all diplomatic ties as we expel all American dignitaries and issue a nation-wide travel advisory for any others left inside. Nowhere to run. Nowhere to hide. The burned out shells of south-bound traffic lay strewn along a cold stretch of would-be interstate. Still visible below their charred remains: Pax Americana plates. Your stupid fucking laser-pucks™ were just the start. And while you may stand six full cubits and a span, we got a shepherd’s sling and five stones in our hand and the battle of 1812 lives in our hearts. We don’t care if we’re destroyed. We’ll never capitulate. We’ll take the whole fucking world down with us in flames. Just a speculative fiction. No cause for alarm. We got a good 15 years left ’til the United We Stand murals on West Broadway finally fade and we wave good-bye to such sad, childish refrains. Replaced with other stupid lullabies like you can have my guns when you pry them from my cold dead hands. Just a speculative fiction. No cause for alarm."

#punkrock #punk #canada #winnipeg

(suite du pouet précédent ⤴️ )
Putain ça y est ils m'ont encore énervé là

Propagandhi - today's empires tomorrow's ashes

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lycEQJW6GFw

🎶
Someday, somewhere
Today's empires, tomorrow's ashes
🎶

#Music
#PouetRadio
#Punk
#Propagandhi
be #antifa always

#Propagandhi - I Am A Rifle (Rebel Spell Cover)
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=4g4f8FqPoms

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=4g4f8FqPoms

#NowPlaying #music #MusicVideo #GenX #LifeAt50 #GenX

Propagandhi - The Only Good Fascist Is A Very Dead Fascist

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qcGgI43J5mY&start_radio=1

(lyrics on screen)

#Propagandhi #TheOnlyGoodFascistIsAVeryDeadFascist #Punk #Music #Antifascist #Lyrics

L'autoradio questo mese consiglia:

Propagandhi – No Longer Young

https://propagandhi.bandcamp.com/track/no-longer-young

#FediRadio #MelodicHardcore #Propagandhi

https://open.spotify.com/track/05dPdLPwAQ3rnxZGRL1tmi #propagandhi #Winnipeg #punk

https://open.spotify.com/track/05dPdLPwAQ3rnxZGRL1tmi #propagandhi #punk

@WheresMyWater @historyofpunkrock 🤘#propagandhi 🤘

LIVE REVIEW: Reconstruction Tour brengt jong en oud samen in Melkweg, met onder andere Comeback Kid, Propagandhi en The Iron Roses

"Comeback Kid zorgt hier voor verbroedering en brengt generaties dichter bij elkaar. "

➡️ https://www.nine32.nl/reconstruction-tour-melkweg-2025-live-review/

#melkweg #comebackkid #pennywise #propagandhi #reconstructiontour #theironroses #deadpioneers #punkrock

Da mir @tilmobaxter gerade ein kurzes Video vom Konzert in Köln geschickt hat:

Wie gut ist eigentlich der Titeltrack des neuen #Propagandhi-Albums?

Hab selten einen so versiert geschriebenen, traurigen, reflektierten und absolut mitreißenden Punk-Thrash-Metal-Song gehört.

I am at peace these days /
Give or take a fit of blinding rage

🥹

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CDhTf3eaeoM

https://open.spotify.com/track/6sDJBrjhIyGUaQmHRVeKfY #Propagandhi #PunkRock @punk

Beste Location. #Augsburg #Gaswerk #SommerAmKiez #Wizo #Pennywise #Propagandhi

Jahaaa, Mama 🙄😏 #SommerAmKiez #Pennywise #Propagandhi #Wizo

Wir haben noch ein Ticket über für #propagandhi, #pennywise etc am 29.05. in den #docks in #hamburg... Hat 50€ gekostet, die hätte ich auch gern wieder, wenn du mir plausibel erklären kannst, warum du weniger zahlen willst, finden wir vielleicht auch ne Einigung...
@punk #punkrock #failedstates #live
https://www.hamburg-tourism.de/sehen-erleben/veranstaltungen/veranstaltungskalender/reconstruction-tour-2025-pennywise-propaghandi-comeback-kid-the-iron-roses-dead-pioneers/#c25765780

The streak continues!

Propagandhi is one of the few bands in music history that has never put out a bad album. Not only that, they keep getting better.

At Peace kicks ass.

https://open.spotify.com/album/4m1dxpIjLDcziDGMXcCqpF?si=Nmp3JAZERRukA1DpquX-4A

#Propagandhi #NewMusic #CanadianMusic #punk #music

So sieht das aktuell aus bei mir. #music #propagandhi

Entre capitulation et devoir de persévérance, Propagandhi (thrash punk / CA) lève le pied mais ne garde pas sa langue dans sa poche pour autant. Chronique et écoute intégrale de 'At Peace' : https://www.mowno.com/disques/propagandhi-at-peace/
📸 Greg Gallinger
#propagandhi #epitaph #atpeace #newmusic #musicnews #newalbum #nowplaying #nowlistening #nowspinning

Having a cup of coffee while listening to «At Peace», the new album by Propagandhi.

#vinyl #propagandhi #punk #bliss

#Propagandhi

"No matter how deep the United States sinks into corruption, cruelty or outright fascism, you can't say Propagandhi didn't warn us.

'My worry is that people aren't connecting the dots — that a corporate oligarchy already existed in North American politics,' vocalist and guitarist Chris Hannah tells Exclaim! 'It just didn't come out of nowhere.'

While the release of At Peace (out May 2 via Epitaph Records) might seem like business as usual for the anarchist punk quartet, its message will undoubtedly resonate with anyone anxious about their own safety during these unsettling times.

'There is like this weird thing where [our] records have come out at the inauguration of a new idiot, but it definitely wasn't intentional,' clarifies Hannah. 'The Democratic administration was presiding over a livestream genocide as we were making the record, so there's no conscious decision to be making or releasing a record at the same time the more egregious authoritarian takes power in an unbelievably outrageous way.'

Tracks like 'Benito's Earlier Work,' 'Vampires Are Real' and 'Something Needs to Die but Maybe It's Not You' can be interpreted as cautionary tales of authoritarianism, the encroaching threat of junta rule, and the relentless fear-mongering driven by social media kingpins. It's music that resonates powerfully with our current moment. But Hannah sees it differently: 'I really chafe at the idea that political conditions are good for art — or specifically punk music. I don't like that idea as if having high-quality consumables is a good trade-off for living under a fascist regime.'

Although the Winnipeg quartet comes from a long line of Canadian artists unafraid to challenge the fallout of Western exceptionalism — like Neil Young, Godspeed You! Black Emperor and Lido Pimienta — Hannah delivers a surprising revelation, one few fans would expect to hear: 'I have no interest in politics,' he claims."

https://exclaim.ca/music/article/propagandhi-chris-hannah-interview-at-peace

Ok, this is a great music video
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CDhTf3eaeoM #Propagandhi

Propagandhi (punk rock / CA) dévoile 'No Longer Young', troisième extrait de l'album 'At Peace' attendu ce vendredi chez Epitaph : https://youtu.be/xwK2gDx_khk?si=9cpeJORRgjxgcqcs
📸 Greg Gallinger
#propagandhi #atpeace #newsingle #nowplaying #nowlistening