The Anti-Queens Address Colonialism On New Single & Video “Crusade”

Toronto’s The Anti-Queens recently announced their latest full length, Disenchanted, will be released via Stomp Records on May 17th and they have now revealed Crusade, the latest single and video from the album. Crusade delves into the topic of systemic oppression faced by minority groups, particularly Indigenous Peoples in Canada. The band highlights a grim reality of historical injustices including land theft, forced assimilation and cultural erasure, perpetuated by colonizers imposing their values and religion, resorting to kidnapping and murder. Despite these harrowing truths, the song voices a collective yearning for peace, reconciliation and equality, urging an end to the perpetuation of falsehoods in education. The band emphasizes the crucial role of acknowledgment and truth-s...

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