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Release Date Friday 20th February 2026
All pre-orders will be dispatched/made ready for collection on that day.
The best political punk band of the 1990s returned in 2001 with their fiercest record yet, 14 tracks of thundering thrash. Knowledge is power. Arm yourself.
After 1993’s ‘How To Clean Everything’ and 1996’s ‘Less Talk, More Rock’, ‘Today’s Empires, Tomorrow’s Ashes’ was Propagandhi’s third and penultimate album on FAT. It marked a transition period for the band. Not only was it their first record after the departure of bassist / vocalist John K. Sampson - who was replaced by Todd Kowalski -but it also saw the start of the shift towards the sound that has now come to define them.
The result was an album that, despite singer Chris Hannah’s reservations, truly set the benchmark back then,and does so even more in its new sonic form. Just listen to what opener ‘Mate Ka Moris Ukun Rasik An’ or the caustic title track sound like now, not to mention the still-eye opening blast of ‘With Friends Like These Who the Fuck Needs COINTELPRO?’, the lyrical content of which remains as shocking today as it was back then.
Intelligent and visceral in equal measure, ‘Today’s Empires, Tomorrow’s Ashes’ - thanks to songs like ‘Albright Monument, Baghdad’, ‘March of the Crabs’ and ‘Bullshit Politicians’ - offers up one of the most vicious indictments of American (and, to be fair, Western) imperialism ever committed to tape.
Reissue of 20th anniversary pressing. All tracks fullyre mixed and remastered.
Produced by Ryan Greene at Motor Studios. Mixed andmastered by Jason Livermore at The Blasting Room
Tracklist:
1. "Mate Ka Moris Ukun Rasik An" 3:03
2. "Fuck the Border" 1:31
3. "Today's Empires, Tomorrow's Ashes" 2:37
4. "Back to the Motor League" 2:40
5. "Natural Disasters" 2:04
6. "With Friends Like These Who the Fuck Needs COINTELPRO?" 3:23
7. "Albright Monument, Baghdad" 2:27
8. "Ordinary People Do Fucked-Up Things when Fucked-Up Things Become Ordinary" 2:17
9. "Ladies' Nite in Loserville" 1:45
10. "Ego Fum Papa (I Am the Pope)" 1:38
11. "New Homes for Idle Hands" 1:44
12. "Bullshit Politicians" 1:33
13. "March of the Crabs" 1:56
14. "Purina Hall of Fame" 4:43
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