The Interrupters - Battle Scars (Indie Exclusive Black & White Splatter Vinyl)

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Indie Exclusive; black vinyl with white splatter
Release Date Jan 29, 2027
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  • Label Hellcat Records
  • Format Vinyl, LP, Album
  • Format details Indie Exclusive; black vinyl with white splatter
  • Media 1 x Vinyl
  • This pressing Jan 29, 2027
  • Region US
  • Genres Rock
  • UPC 045778055838
Releases Jan 29, 2027

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Indie Exclusive Black & White Splatter Vinyl

This is the independent-retail pressing of Battle Scars: one LP, black with white splatter, eleven songs across two sides. Hellcat Records releases it on January 29, 2027.

Battle Scars is the band's fifth album and their first in four years, after In The Wild in 2022. Kevin Bivona produced it with Tim Armstrong of Rancid, and it was recorded live to analog tape with the band playing together in one room.

Several longtime collaborators turn up inside the record. Travis Barker co-produced and plays drums on "Wild Heart," "Unbreakable" and "Warrior Spirit." Jesse Michaels of Operation Ivy co-wrote two songs and sings on "Stranger." Armstrong takes a vocal on "One More Trip" alongside Vic Ruggiero of The Slackers, and Brett Gurewitz of Bad Religion is among the collaborators the band brought back in.

Hellcat's notes describe the album drawing new wave, post-punk and synth-pop into the band's own sound, running from the new wave-inspired "Warrior Spirit," shared in early October, to the guitar-driven groove of "Unbreakable."

The Interrupters formed in Los Angeles in 2011 around Aimee Interrupter, guitarist Kevin Bivona and his twin brothers Justin and Jesse, on bass and drums. Their 2018 single "She's Kerosene," from Fight The Good Fight, broke them into the mainstream and topped radio charts in the United States and Canada.

The label's notes put Aimee Interrupter's candid songwriting at the center of this one. She has described "Back From The Dead" as a reawakening following a near-death experience: "This is my letter to alcohol, the worst friend I ever had: you tried to kill me, you tried to hold me down, but I'm back from the dead." "Harboring Vengeance" traces her effort to forgive someone who hurt her, and "Stained Glass Window" is informed by her own experience of mental health. "On this album, I'm speaking my truth, and some of it's deeply personal," she has said.

The sequence is deliberate, opening on "Warrior Spirit" and closing on "Legacy." "We start as warriors, and we end with the legacy, hopefully, leaving the world a little better than we found it," Aimee explains.

Tracklist

Side A

  1. Warrior Spirit
  2. Scorpion
  3. Wild Heart (feat. Travis Barker)
  4. Vampire
  5. Stained Glass Window
  6. Unbreakable

Side B

  1. Harboring Vengeance
  2. Back From The Dead
  3. One More Trip (feat. Tim Armstrong & Vic Ruggiero)
  4. Stranger (feat. Jesse Michaels)
  5. Legacy

*** Indie Exclusive ***
UPC: 045778055838
Label: Hellcat Records
Release Date: 1.29.27
Format: Vinyl