Bad Religion | Texas Review | Ralph Arvesen
Bad Religion performing during the Age of Unreason Tour at Emo's Austin in Austin, Texas on October 2, 2019, with Greg Graffin, Brett Gurewitz, Jay Bentley, Brian Baker, Jamie Miller, and Mike Dimkich.
Acclaimed Los Angeles punk rock band Bad Religion's new album entitled Age of Unreason is out now on Epitaph Records. Since the group’s formative years they have steadfastly advocated for humanism, reason, and individualism. Now, when these values are in decline and nationalism and bigotry are on the rise, Bad Religion’s message has never been more essential. Age of Unreason delivers a powerful and inspired response - a political and deeply personal treatise on all they believe in.

This record is both a dire warning and testament to resilience. The overall message being - seek truth about the world and oneself. As Graffin, who holds a PhD in the history of science, says, “When I saw all these headlines about how terrible our world had become, I started doing a lot of reading. I read about the French revolution, the American Revolution, the Civil War, and I started to recognize that this is a pattern of history and something we should never venture into.

There are ample warnings against it. Every school child should know this but it’s hard to get people to read about these things. Maybe this album can help. Because right now, with social media, we are just playing a version of kill the guy with the ball.”
Setlist for the show at Emo's Austin
  • Them and Us
  • End of History
  • Fuck You
  • Stranger Than Fiction
  • The Dichotomy
  • Recipe for Hate
  • Chaos From Within
  • Los Angeles Is Burning
  • Anesthesia
  • My Sanity
  • Automatic Man
  • New Dark Ages
  • Lose Your Head
  • Dearly Beloved
  • We're Only Gonna Die
  • No Control
  • God Song
  • Do What You Want
  • Generator
  • I Want to Conquer the World
  • 21st Century (Digital Boy)
  • You
  • Do the Paranoid Style
  • Fuck Armageddon... This Is Hell
  • Sorrow
  • Infected
  • American Jesus

Bad Religion was the main act at Emo's Austin with guests Emily Davis and Dave Hause. The band continues across the United States and South America with the last stop at the Pepsi Center WTC in Colonia Nápoles, Mexico on November 9, 2019.

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