Propagandhi: Victory Lap

The sonic trajectory of Winnipeg punks Propagandhi has been firmly entrenched in the progressive thrash-metal world since they unleashed their game-changing 2005 LP Potemkin City Limits. At the time, the shift away from the brainy, yet less-brawny skate-punk of their mid-’90s run sounded like a band who was through fucking around, ready to fulfill the larger obligations of putting their sociopolitical stances through more stoic soundscapes. That marriage of the band’s staunchly anti-capitalist, antifa, pro-vegan, pro-equality foundations with an increasingly ferocious wall of riffage has been one of the brighter, and more unique spots in the punk world over the last 20 years.
On their seventh studio album, Victory Lap, Propagandhi stirs heady dustups of full-throttle metal better than most bands who’d call themselves metal, and do so with an ear toward flattening the pomposity inherent in oppressive politics in Canada, the U.S. and anyplace else where self-serving egomaniacal assholes are pervasive.
Now rounded out by new guitarist Sulynn Hago, Propagandhi get right to the point on the title-track opener, where a sinister riff whips and growls, invoking the licks their metal forefathers had intended to kickstart revolutions with. You need more than chops alone to worm your way into the thoughtful subconscious of any listener, though, and vocalist/guitarist Chris Hannah is a master of the subliminal sermon. Hannah yowls, “When the flames engulfed the home of the brave/the stampede towards the border was in vain/Faces palmed, faces paled/as the wall they said would make them great could not be scaled.” It’s a riotous indictment of American politics in the Trump era, and as such, its clever nod to the Twitterverse is represented by lyrics littered with hashtags, as Hannah continues, “You say #notallcops/You say #notallmen/Yes you insist #itsonly99%/There’s nothing new for you to learn/Ok, sit back, relax and watch it all burn.”
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