Metal Anarchy

Great American Ghost have revealed the details for their new album “Tragedy Of The Commons.” The effort will be released on January 31 and it can be pre-ordered HERE.

“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”

Vocalist Ethan Harrison said the following about 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.”

A music video for “Lost In The Outline” from the effort can be found below. Guitarist Grayson Stewart added the following about that track:

“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.”