There are songs that hide message in metaphor or character, and then there are songs like the second single from ANTAGONIST A.D.’s upcoming EP ‘Through Fire’. On ‘The System Is Racist And Oppressive’, vocalist Sam Crocker had to dive deep within the definitions of both himself and the band as a whole. “When writing for these new releases we spent a lot of time talking and philosophising about who we are as a band, what we represent and what we wanted to achieve. A short simple answer became pragmatic – we are a protest band, we have always been that. We have always stood for something and we wanted to express that fervently with our new music, literally scream it from the rooftops. This song is a perfect representation of that. We are an anti-fasci...
