Handguns discuss upcoming album

11 April 2012 | 1:19 am | Staff Writer
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Handguns are currently hard at work recording their debut album, 'Angst'. The pop punk quintet will release the album in late winter via Pure Noise Records, and recently took some time out with Alternative Press to talk about it.

Handguns are currently hard at work recording their debut album, 'Angst'. The pop punk quintet will release the album in late winter via Pure Noise Records, and recently took some time out with Alternative Press to talk about it. 


Read a statement from the band below:


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"The record is called Angst and look up the definition of it. It’s about all the anxieties of things we’ve all been through. The full deluxe version will have 16 songs—there will be 12 on the regular release, I think—about shit that everyone deals with. I feel like a lot of bands try to put themselves on a pedestal like, “Oh, my thoughts are so perfect and new and I’m the only one who’s ever felt this way.”


For us, it’s like, everyone goes through the exact same shit. We’re not bringing ourselves above anyone with our music—we never have and we never will. We wrote 16 songs about real life shit that we’ve been through and stuff that anyone can deal with and relate to.


You don’t have to be some fucking music critic or be this way or that way to “get” Handguns. No, we want metal kids, hardcore kids, 90-year-old grandmas and everyone in the world to listen to Handguns. It doesn’t matter if you’re gay or straight or Christian or Atheist or Muslim. Everyone deals with the same topics. That’s why we write the music the way we write it. "