The Hope Conspiracy have released a new music video for their single, “The West Is Dead.” The song is from their upcoming album, Tools of Oppression/Rule by Deception, that will be out on May 31 via Deathwish Inc. “The West Is Dead” is the second single off of this album.
Pre-save Tools of Oppression/Rule by Deception here.
Vocalist, Kevin Baker on “The West Is Dead”:
“Politicians in the west, whether they are on the left or right, all eat from the same pig trough. Corporations own every single one of them. The working people were sold down the river decades ago. The professional liars are not concerned with fair wages, human rights, affordable healthcare or the poison in our air, water and food. Both sides play on everyone’s sensitivities to keep us hating one another while they take lucrative donations and marching orders from rent-seeking billionaires. The tent cities and the rampant homelessness would go away tomorrow, if they really wanted it to be so. The system is designed to crush the common people. If you don’t feel it, now you will. If you don’t see it, now you will. It’s the approaching storm on the horizon and there is no escaping it. The west is dead and our end is near.”
This album has true sonic violence that is aimed towards the political divide in the United States, along with the economic manipulation, war profiteering, media propoganda and the many other vile forms of global oppression. It’s also meant to be an ominous soundtrack to the steady decline of the modern age. There is no question that The Hope Conspiracy is back to make the cold hard statement about existence in the end of times. The album was engineered by Kurt Ballou and Zach Weeks and God City Studios, as for the artwork, it was created by Alexander Heir.
The Hope Conspiracy Tour Dates:
June 7: Cambridge, MA @ Sonia
June 8: Brooklyn, NY @ The Meadows
June 9: Philadelphia, PA @ First Unitarian Church
July 20: Chicago, IL @ Cobra Lounge – The Rumble
September 6: Los Angeles, CA @ 1720
September 7: Berkeley, CA @ 924 Gilman
September 8: Anaheim, CA @ Chain Reaction
September 9: Giant Rock, CA @ Ask A Punk
September 12: San Diego, CA @ Soda Bar
September 13: Seattle, WA @ The Vera Project
September 14: Portland, OR @ Dante’s
September 15: Tacoma, WA @ Real Art
Tools of Oppression / Rule by Deception Tracklist:
- Those Who Gave Us Yesterday
- The Prophets and Doom
- A Struggle for Power
- Live in Fear
- Shock by Shock
- Of a Dying Nation
- Confusion, Chaos, Misery
- Broken Vessels
- The West is Dead
- The Specter Looms
