Taking up the penultimate spot in The Punk Site’s 2023 Top 40 are The Iron Roses with their debut album, The Iron Roses, that was released in October via SBÄM Records & Iodine Records. The Iron Roses are a passionate, unique and beautiful group of people making music that they hope will change the world. Fueled by the injustices of our current times, their songs are the kind of protest anthems that only a group of seasoned musicians could make. Still angry, still driven, and still screaming. This is a band that will never give up the fight. The 11 songs on the album are more than words carefully paired with notes, they are statements of their values, lines in the sand, and an assurance that they refuse to lay down and take what the systems around us insist we should be grateful f...