Great American Ghost‘s next full-length album has been titled Tragedy Of The Commons and is set for release on January 31st via SharpTone Records. Recording sessions for this new offering from the Boston, MA-based metalcore band were overseen by GRAMMY Award-winning producer Will Putney, who is also a member of Fit For An Autopsy, Better Lovers, and END.
Ethan Harrison, the band’s vocalist, offered the following on the album:
“We are a political band, and we always have been. We integrate ‘extreme views’ into what we do, which is ‘extreme music’. Rather than write another generally political album, we tried to play into broader themes of hopelessness. Normal people are losing control on a constant basis. Tragedy Of The Commons is a statement about exploitation.
If two people share finite resources, one person will eventually exploit those resources and hurt the other person. Citizens don’t have enough money to eat and live in this country, but our government is spending billions on funding other armies around the world that are being used to kill other poor people. Tragedy Of The Commons boils down to this fundamental exploitation of the less fortunate.”
The quartet are newly streaming “Lost In The Outline” as the second single from the effort, along with an official music video for it directed by Stray From The Path‘s Anthony Altamura . Guitarist Grayson Stewart said of that song:
“As a human, you’re often just a rat on a wheel. You’re moving forward in your perspective, but you’re never actually accomplishing anything. ‘Lost In The Outline’ gets into the lies you’re told when you’re young. You come to this realization that you have no agency over what happens to you or what you do. You’re a cog in the machine.”
Tragedy Of The Commons track listing:
01 – “Kerosene”
02 – “Echoes Of War”
03 – “Lost In The Outline”
04 – “Forsaken”
05 – “Ghost In Flesh”
06 – “Writhe”
07 – “Genocide”
08 – “Hymn Of Decay”
09 – “Chapel Paralysis”
10 – “Reality//Relapse”
11 – “God Is A Loaded Gun”
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