Bad Religion "Empire Strikes First" 2025-11-28 Back in Stock and wholly a part of

and wholly a part of the group's tumbling fever dream

named after an apartment complex that Johnson would walk past every day

It's a competent set of alternative funk and metal

is the first of a two-volume collection of rarities

they are reissuing their first 3 records

Bad Religion "Empire Strikes First" 2025-11-28 Back in Stock and wholly a part ofThe Empire Strikes First 14 songs that are fresh, focused, and absolutely alive in the way that great rock 'n' roll energizes everything it touches. It's been a long road from their early 80s beginnings, but these days, the primary concerns of Graffin and Gurewitz are not the band's intricate (and subtle) years long evolution; they're first and foremost topical songwriters focused on domestic chaos and its global manifestation. Bad Religion is, after