CANADIAN PUNK VETS PONDER THE PARALLELS BETWEEN MODERN WELLNESS & RELIGIOUS INDOCTRINATION ON NEW SINGLE. NEW LP ‘COLD WORLD’ AVAILABLE VIA EQUAL VISION/DINE ALONE ON MAY 8.

Taking aim at the sometimes snake-oily and always exhausting parallels between modern wellness and religious indoctrination, ‘Inner Peace’ reveals that there’s perspective in the imperfect. There’s authenticity in the audacious. It’s an unrelenting beast, this quest for inner peace. While 2022′s ‘New Ruin’ was preoccupied with the inherited damages of the last generation, the forthcoming ‘Cold World’ sees that legacy for what it is — a ghost, a fading memory. If ‘New Ruin’ was about the rage of realization, now we’re damned with the aftermath of clarity. Welcome to the future. Maybe the greatest resistance that any artist can offer today is the radical act of stability — the same four people, friends since they were kids, playing music together because they have been compelled to for nearly their entire lives, 24 years and counting. That vision has evolved into a consistent confidence that gives band the freedom to experiment with the edges of their sound while grounded by each other, locking out the decay of the world outside. The band fought through the fire of their last record only to find a landscape of debasement and erasure, and an increasingly cold world for all of us to live in.

The Flatliners will be making the following European appearances in 2026. Dates as follow with more to be announced soon:

19th June @ Bahnhof Pauli (Hamburg, DE)
20th June @ Hole 44 (Berlin, DE)
21st June @ Farewell Youth Fest (Dresden, DE) #
23rd June @ Arena (Vienna, AT)
24th June @ Strom (Munich, DE)
25th June @ Gebäude 9 (Cologne, DE)
26th June @ Jera On Air (Ysselsteyn, NL) #
27th June @ Vainstream (Münster, DE) #
28th June @ Mighty Sounds Festival (Tábor, CZ) #
30th June @ Kollektivet Livet (Stockholm, SE)

# — Festival appearance

‘Cold World’, the brand new studio album from Canadian punk veterans The Flatliners, is the sound of a band free to make what they want with the people they want to make it with, to try to carve out some space to demonstrate a different way of doing things — a space where bands share credit equally, where friends grow and work together over decades, a space where stability is the reward for sticking to your vision. The textures of LP itself are anything but comfortable and familiar. The band’s airtight foundation of bassist Jon Darbey and drummer Paul Ramirez continues to drive with a learned, casual urgency on rippers like ‘Inner Peace’ and ‘Burn’, while Chris Cresswell and Scott Brigham deploy the controlled chaos of their shredding two-guitar attack, enveloping the listener on songs like ‘Pulpit’ and ‘Whyte Light’. As the album ends, we may be drifting out into darkness. But if we’re lucky, we can choose who we drift with.

‘Cold World’ Tracklisting:

1. Stolen Valour
2. Good, You?
3. Inner Peace
4. And They’re Off
5. Only Darkness
6. Whyte Light
7. Into Annihilation
8. Pulpit
9. Turning Signal Rhythm
10. Gush
11. Burn
12. United In Spite

Credit: Riley Taylor