The Iron Roses your favorite provocative punk rockers with a clear mission, are back with a brand new album. The band will self-release ‘Molotov Nights’ on August 6th.
The band, previously lauded by SPIN for being “more ambitious both musically and thematically than most artists choose” and by New Noise as “a great fucking listen,” are sharing their new single ‘Dead Eyes.‘
“‘Dead Eyes’ is an unyielding statement that shines a light on the bottom line of war: Money,” states Natasha Gray. “Greedy billionaires have always seen the working class as expendable pawns. In the words of Tupac Shakur: ‘They got money for wars, but can’t feed the poor,’ and it is time to stand up and firmly demand that the financial rewards of our hard labor be used to enrich, feed, and care for our world, not destroy it. ‘Dead Eyes’ insists that silence is no longer an option, and drives that point home with deliberate intention, speaking to global atrocities happening around us, right now.”
About the album as a whole, Becky Fontaine says: “‘Molotov Nights’ is a collection of anthems we poured every bit of our rage and frustration into, taking care to swaddle it in defiant joy and affirming hope. When we wrote this album, we set out to create protest punk that still honored autonomy, humanity, and compassion, and as we moved through our collective grief while bearing witness to new horrors of the world in our news feed every single day, an undeniable frenzy took over.”
Fontaine continues: “What came together over the last two years of writing are 10 songs that take the backbone of our sound and make space for more rage, more vulnerability, more defiance, more romancing of the human experience, and more celebration of self. ‘Molotov Nights’ is a love letter we tucked into the pockets of our community as we link arms and push forward in our resistance — one that we hope will become lovingly worn at the edges from being pulled out to read, re-read, and chant along to on the darkest of nights when hope feels impossible.”
With Gray and Fontaine’s soaring dual melodies, acerbic lyrics, and unmatched intensity, ‘Molotov Nights’ is the most cohesive and most necessary record of their career. Covering topics most bands shy away from — genocide, ICE, fascism, femicide — The Iron Roses stand for everything punk was always supposed to fight for. And they do it without ever losing the melody, the hook, the moment where the song grabs you by the collar and will not let go. This is what we needed. Not consolation. Not nostalgia. Not the comfortable lie that things will sort themselves out. We would have preferred the world where this record didn’t have to exist — where there was nothing to be this angry about, nothing to grieve, nothing to scream. We’d take that world in a heartbeat. But we don’t live in that world. We live in this one. And in this one, The Iron Roses just made ‘Molotov Nights’ .
‘Molotov Nights’ tracklist:
01. Dead Eyes
02. Body Count
03. Fascist Lullabies
04. All American
05. The Good News
06. To the Last
07. Molotov Nights
08. Look Away
09. Breathing Static
10. Rise Up Phoenix
Upcoming Canadian tour dates:
May 12th — Warehouse — St. Catharines, Ontario
May 13th — Palasad Social Bowl — London, Ontario
May 14th — Biltmore Theatre — Oshawa, Ontario
May 15th — Lee’s Palace — Toronto, Ontario
May 16th — Pouzza Fest — Montreal, Quebec
Upcoming U.S. tour dates:
June 19th — Union Stage — Washington, DC
June 20th — Richmond Music Hall — Richmond, VA
June 21st — The Taphouse — Norfolk, VA
June 22nd — Cat’s Cradle — Carrboro, NC
June 23rd — Reggie’s 42nd Street Tavern — Wilmington, NC
June 24th — New Brookland Tavern — Columbia, SC
June 25th — Purgatory at The Masquerade — Atlanta, GA
June 26th — Jack Rabbits — Jacksonville, FL
June 27th — Respectable Street Cafe — West Palm Beach, FL
June 28th — Will’s Pub — Orlando, FL
June 29th — Crowbar — Tampa, FL
Upcoming European tour dates:
June 10th — Don’t Panic — Essen, Germany
July 10th — Bastion V — Dendermonde, Belgium
August 8th — Café Central — Weinheim, Germany
August 10th — Erntepunk Fest — Graz, Austria
August 11th — Arena — Vienna, Austria
August 12th — Kranhalle — Munich, Germany
August 13th — Dynamo — Zurich, Switzerland
August 14th — Schlachthof — Wiesbaden, Germany
August 15th — Stattbahnhof — Schweinfurt, Germany
August 16th — VEB Kultur — Erfurt, Germany
August 18th — Helios 37 — Cologne, Germany
August 20th — Faust — Hanover, Germany
August 21st — Uebel & Gefährlich — Hamburg, Germany
August 22nd — Female Fronted Is Not A Genre — Berlin, Germany