Wrong War - Distraction Diet

  

(photo : John Massel)

  Chicago hardcore punk 4 piece Wrong War (https://www.facebook.com/wrongwarmusic) formed in 2019 and featured on here at the end of the following year with a track from their debut album, Fixed Against Forever (https://justsomepunksongs.blogspot.com/2020/12/wrong-war-first-shot-misses.html). 

  They return today with an equally blistering song from follow up album Once Upon A Weapon. It's more in a similar vein, it's hard hitting music providing a back beat to political lyrics such as "Feigned compassion... As your profits decreased"   "Resist whatever seems so inevitable... Resist all who seem incredibly invincible"   "It’s all punching down... With tyrannous aspirations" etc...

  I'd also like to mention that I really like the album cover which is a 1918 oil painting by Dublin born artist Alexander Stanhope Forbes titled The Munitions Girls. It adds an extra touch of class to a very fine release. 

  It'll be available this summer on Atomic Action! Records and Council Records but is streaming here now : https://wrongwar.bandcamp.com/album/once-upon-a-weapon

  This track is about the babble of fake news that seems to be blaring out from every direction. It's called Distraction Diet...

 You could be so enraged these days

 So many idiocies to engage

 A distraction diet

 Of lies and entitlement

 We’ve lost our way

 And it’s once, or so you think

 Repeating viral weapon

 Turned on by savagery

 Turn it off and

 Get the fuck away

 You could be so enraged

 these days So many idiocies to engage

 And it’s once, or so you think

 Retreating static essence

 Turned on barbarity

 Takes you so

 Ever far away

 And a chorus rose behind him

 And a chorus rose behind her

 And a chorus rose behind them

 And a chorus of no consequence answered

 Repeating viral weapon

 Turn on by savagery

 Turn it off and get the fuck away

Wrong War - First Shot Misses

    

  Wrong War (https://www.facebook.com/wrongwarmusic) are Dan Smith (drums), Dave Pawlowski (bass), Matthias Weeks (vocals) and Patrick Keenan (guitar). They formed in 2019, hail from Chicago and are former members of bands such as Current, Ottawa, Calvary, The Phenoms and Salvo Beta. They play "blistering political punk rock" and have garnered comparisons with the likes of Crucifix, Battalion Of Saints and Born Against. 

  And they've recently released a debut album titled Fixed Against Forever. It contains 9 tracks, the music is mostly fast and heavy (there's a bit of d beat sound bubbling not too far below the surface which compliments those US hardcore influences) and the lyrics are well written and are more thought provoking and abstract than most bands manage. For example we get lines like "Day spent in bright-lit city, With sounds of market-tongues...", "A pyrrhic victory, calling over the din, The lonely moan, of the next battlefield..." and "When it’s all fools -- and firebrands, Glorifying -- a promised land, They’ll kindly tell you -- where to stand. Ever closer to hell."

  The album's available on vocalist Matt's Council Records label :  https://wrongwar.bandcamp.com/album/fixed-against-forever 

  This is the track I played on a recent Just Some Punk Songs show which impressed the chatroom regulars, it's called First Shot Misses...

It’s what they would write... You know what will happen. Fixed, altered, in every way. An assertion profession, And the indifference of your adversaries. There’s a time, When they will win. There's not an answer, To every question. First shot misses. Ride out the day, Consider it a warning. Few notes that you bray In violence we’re drowning. There is a time, When they will win. There's not an answer, To every question. First shot misses. You know what we’re trapped in, Exit obscured and out of sight. As it all wears thin, remember… This is what they would write! You know what will happen. Fixed, altered, in every way. An assertion profession, And the indifference of your adversaries. So what are we waiting for?