New England hardcore band Broken Vow (whose vocalist Tommy Harte also currently plays guitar in Anxious) have announced their first full-length album, Anthropocene, due September 29 via Triple B Records (pre-order). The first single is “1.5,” is a ferociously heavy hardcore song that takes on the issue of humans destroying the environment. Tommy says:
Every year we lose 1.5% of wild nature to development, extinction, and general human intervention. This song is about the objective truth that humanity is squandering the privilege of the earth. This is not our dominion, and if we wish to survive we must exist in harmony with the earth and cease to view it as a foe to conquer.
About the album overall, he adds:
When writing the lyrics for this album I was heavily influenced by bands who tackled a wide variety of subject matter in a cohesive and thought provoking way. Undying, Earth Crisis, Chokehold, and the more political-leaning Bridge Nine bands provided a lot of inspiration in that respect. The bulk of songs on this record are about humanity’s relationship with the earth, the pressing issue of our time. The generation this band comes from is one that never really knew environmental peace and from a young age has had to grapple with feelings of doom, guilt, and confusion around the topic. I’m not a genius, or an inventor, or a problem solver but I am a human, so that seemed the best angle to come at it from. This record is about the anger that comes from watching those in power fail to slow our culture’s ever-quickening descent into environmental and social destruction. It’s about feeling hopeless and still refusing to give up hope. It’s about empowering the everyman, who has been taught to be at peace with his powerlessness. But most importantly it’s about not being alienated from your own humanity despite the pressures of our culture and civilization. It is within this humanity that we will find the power to influence the change necessary to salvage what’s left of the world.
Listen to the new song below. Broken Vow currently have one upcoming show, at The Shop in Hamden, CT on Sunday (8/20) with Wreckage and Combust.
Tracklist
1. Burning Your Throne
2. Kingdom Dies
3. Evil Armies
4. Function
5. 1.5
6. Propaganda Of The Deed
7. Shift Tactics
8. Reversal
9. No More Air