LABEL: EPITAPH
VINYL RELEASE DATE:6/8/2004
ALBUM RELEASE DATE:6/8/2004
VARIANT: BLACK VINYL LP

The Empire Strikes First is the thirteenth studio album by American punk rock band Bad Religion, released on June 8, 2004. The album is heavily influenced by the then-current Iraq War and also has some nods to George Orwell’s novel Nineteen Eighty-Four, the latter most likely inspired by the Patriot Act.

TRACKLIST

1 Overture
2 Sinister Rouge
3 Social Suicide
4 Atheist Peace
5 All There Is
6 Angeles Is Burning
7 Let Them Eat War
8 God’s Love
9 To Another Abyss
10 Quickening
11 Empire Strikes First
12 Beyond Electric Dreams
13 Boot Stamping on a Human Face Forever
14 Live Again (The Fall of Man)