Having released their 12th album at the beginning of last year, today, Anti-Flag’s sixth album, For Blood and Empire, turns 15. Released three years after their fifth full-length, The Terror State (2003), and as many years after the invasion of Iraq in March 2003, For Blood and Empire continues its lyrical assault on the U.S. government for imperialism and war crimes. For example, “I’d Tell You But…”speaks directly to the Iraq war, from the point of a (deceased) Iraqi, with a eviscerating chorus: I’m dead, I’m deadMy life is life no moreI’m dead, I’m deadYour bullets cut into my flesh whilst “The Project for a New American Century” tackles Bush administration officials’ longstanding ambitions of global hegemony. “The Press Corpse,” meanwhile, critiques the mainstream media’s role in manipu...
