Boston hardcore punk band The Hope Conspiracy have dropped another track from their highly-anticipated album Tools of Oppression / Rule by Deception today.

The track “The West Is Dead” comes with a music video directed by Jake Mulhern (Mothpowder Light Show), which can be seen below. The Hope Conspiracy vocalist said this about the new song:

"Politicians in the west, whether they are on the left or right, all eat from the same pig trough. Corporations own every single one of them. The working people were sold down the river decades ago. The professional liars are not concerned with fair wages, human rights, affordable healthcare or the poison in our air, water and food. Both sides play on everyone's sensitivities to keep us hating one another while they take lucrative donations and marching orders from rent seeking billionaires. The tent cities and rampant homelessness would go away tomorrow if they really wanted it to be so. The system is designed to crush the common people. If you don't feel it now you will. If you don't see it now you will. It's the approaching storm on the horizon and there is no escaping it. The west is dead and our end is near."

Pre-orders for Tools of Oppression / Rule by Deception can be made here. This is the band’s first studio album since 2006’s Death Knows Your Name. Last year, the band surprised everyone with the release of their Confusion/Chaos/Misery EP.

The Hope Conspiracy will embark on a West Coast trek this September. Tour dates can be seen below. Tickets are on sale to the general public right now here.

The Hope Conspiracy tour dates

June 7 Cambridge, MA @ Sonia (sold out)

June 8 Brooklyn, NY @ The Meadows (sold out)

June 9 Philadelphia, PA @ First Unitarian Church (sold out)

July 20 Chicago, IL @ Cobra Lounge - The Rumble

September 6 Los Angeles, CA @ 1720

September 7 Berkeley, CA @ 924 Gilman

September 8 Anaheim, CA @ Chain Reaction

September 9 Giant Rock, CA @ Ask A Punk

September 12 San Diego, CA @ Soda Bar

September 13 Seattle, WA @ The Vera Project

September 14 Portland, OR @ Dante's

September 15 Tacoma, WA @ Real Art