OUTRIGHT bring down The Hammer, and announce new album
Ferocious, unapologetic and entirely uncompromising, Outright refuse to remain quiet when it comes to crucial social issues and reinforces the band as a commanding force in the heavy music space. The Hammer is the first single from their forthcoming album 'Keep You Warm' - out Friday 15 July 2022, through Reason and Rage Records!
Australian hardcore legends Outright have dropped the hammer on announcing their LP Keep You Warm. It will drop on Friday 15 July through their band-owned independent label, Rage and Reason Records, and have shared the album's scorching first single ‘The Hammer’.
The track is a breakneck thrasher, a potent serve of seething political dissent from one of Australian hardcore’s most vital voices - Jelena Goluza. ‘The Hammer’ challenges the perpetually privileged who view the expectation of taking personal accountability as a direct attack.
According to Goluza, ‘The Hammer’ is a tongue in cheek song emerging from frustration at recognising an abuser’s tendency to lament when being held to account, and references Malleus Maleficarum - ‘The Hammer of Witches’ – a text widely acknowledged as the almanac of witchcraft.
“When abusers co-opt the histories of the oppressed to complain about their own rare instances of accountability it insults and minimises literally hundreds of years of survival and resilience by the marginalised,” Goluza says. “When you're accustomed to privilege, equality feels like oppression and accountability feels like an attack.
“The song title refers to Malleus Maleficarum, ‘The Hammer of Witches’ – a historical text considered the handbook on witchcraft which drove centuries of torture and hysteria to protect the power of the church and its patriarchy,” she adds. “We subvert it here to be a hammer of justice for all.
“We have to believe in change. Cancel culture might not be the solution, but you can't equate visibility and accountability for harm with a witch hunt - the very tool used by these same abusers to murder, exclude and control people who challenge the status quo, show strength and independence or literally just dare to exist”.
Outright
Keep You Warm
Friday 15 July 2022
Reason and Rage Records
1.Truth Teller
2. The Hammer
3. Linchpin
4. Tied Through Time
5. Fortify
6. Breathless
7. The Call
8. Burn
9. Tyrants & Vultures
10. Silent Spring
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