Bad Religion "Empire Strikes First" 2025-09-12 Recorded over a year earlier

Recorded over a year earlier

At the time

Produced by a new line-up of the group (longtime drummer Murph and new bassist Mike Johnson completing the three-piece)

and Greek music

the direction we explored was more in the vein of almost trip-hop

Bad Religion "Empire Strikes First" 2025-09-12 Recorded over a year earlierThe Empire Strikes First 14 songs that are fresh, focused, and absolutely alive in the way that great rock 'n' roll energizes everything it touches. It's been a long road from their early 80s beginnings, but these days, the primary concerns of Graffin and Gurewitz are not the band's intricate (and subtle) years long evolution; they're first and foremost topical songwriters focused on domestic chaos and its global manifestation. Bad Religion is, after