D.O.A. Announces New Album Release Date, Cover Art

Courtesy: Sudden Death Records

Veteran punk band D.O.A. has another new album on the way.

The band is scheduled to released its next album, Fight Back, May 1 via Sudden Death Records.  The 13-song record is the band’s 17th full-length studio recording and comes three years after its most recent album, 2015’s Hard Rain Falling.  It covers a wide range of topics throughout those songs including police brutality and police-involved shootings in ‘Killer Cops,’ control by the political elite in ‘State Control,’ standing up for one’s own rights in ‘You Can’t Stop Me’ and much more.

The full track listing for Fight Back is noted below.

FIGHT BACK Track Listing

1. You Need An Ass Kicking Right Now
2. Killer Cops
3. Time To Fight Back
4. We Won’t Drink This
5. Just Got Back From The USA
6. You Can’t Stop Me
7. Gonna Set You Straight
8. State Control
9. The Last Beer
10. The Cops Are Comin’
11. I’m Desperate
12. Wanted Man
13. World’s Been Turned Upside Down

Fight Back comes as the band celebrates its 40th anniversary.  In celebration of its anniversary, the band has announced a new live schedule — dubbed the “Men Of Action Tour” — which starts May 21 in Salt Lake City, Utah and runs through July 27 in Montreal, Quebec, Canada.  The tour’s current schedule is noted below.

US TOUR DATES (w/ MDC as main support):

5/21 – Salt Lake City, UT @ Metro Music Hall
5/22 – Colorado Springs, CO @ Black Sheep
5/23 – Fort Collins,CO @ Hodi’s Half Note
5/24 – Denver, CO @ Streets Of London Pub
5/26 – Las Vegas, NV @ Punk Rock Bowling Festival
5/29 – Laguna Niguel, CA @ Karmann Bar
5/30 – West Hollywood, CA @ The Viper Room
5/31 – San Diego, CA @ Brick By Brick

6/02 – Phoenix, AZ @ The Rebel Lounge
6/03 – Albuquerque, NM @ Launchpad
6/04 – El Paso, TX @ Lowbrow Palace
6/05 – Harlingen, TX @ Hop Shop
6/06 – Austin, TX @ Barracuda
6/07 – Houston, TX @ The Secret Group
6/08 – San Antonio, TX @ Paper Tiger
6/09 – Dallas, TX @ Gas Monkey Bar and Grill
6/10 – Tulsa, OK @ Shrine
6/12 – Kansas City, MO @ Riot Room
6/13 – Des Moines, IA @ Lefty’s Live Music
6/15 – Billings, MT @ The Pub Station
6/16 – Spokane, WA @ The Pin!

US & CANADA TOUR DATES (w/ Down By Law + Kevin Seconds (of 7 Seconds) playing solo:

07/06 – Vancouver, BC @ First Annual Fight Back Festival, Rickshaw Theater

07/11 – Regina

07/12 – Winnipeg

07/13 – Thunder Bay

07/14 – Minneapolis

07/15 – Green Bay

07/16 – Madison

07/17 – Milwaukee

07/18 – Chicago

07/19 – Detroit

07/20 – Cleveland

07/21 – Buffalo

07/22 – Brooklyn

07/23 – Philly

07/24 – TBA

07/25 – Toronto

07/26 – Ottawa

07/27 – Montreal ¹77 Festival

More information on D.O.A.’s new album, tour and more is available online now at:

 

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