Songs for a System That Wakes Up Tired – THE GREAT LIE and the violence of the everyday grind

The clock doesn’t wait. That’s the premise, really. Songs For A Monday Morning (Lemmis Records), the new release from long-standing Long Island hardcore unit the great lie, circles like a battered commuter train—caked in routine, running on fumes, refusing to break. It’s not poetic. It’s just true. And if it sounds bitter, it’s only because bitterness is what’s left when nothing sweet sticks. The Great Lie have lived this. Veterans of MADBALL, MIND OVER MATTER, SILENT MAJORITY, and more, their pedigree is a timeline of East Coast hardcore’s evolution, tracked through decades of sweat and volume. Formed in 2014, the