{"id":26114,"date":"2025-02-18T05:00:00","date_gmt":"2025-02-18T05:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/?p=26114"},"modified":"2025-02-17T19:52:15","modified_gmt":"2025-02-17T19:52:15","slug":"conflict-are-back-in-the-ring-with-brand-new-music-this-much-remains","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/?p=26114","title":{"rendered":"Conflict are back in the ring with brand new music – ‘This Much Remains’"},"content":{"rendered":"
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CONFLICT ANNOUNCE FIRST NEW ALBUM IN OVER TWO DECADES<\/strong> \u2018THIS MUCH REMAINS\u2019 TO BE RELEASED ON MORTARHATE\/CADIZ MUSIC ON APRIL 25th<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

PRE-ORDER THE ALBUM ON CD, VINYL AND LIMITED EDITION BOXSET <\/strong>HERE:<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

LISTEN\/BUY <\/strong>HERE<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cIt\u2019s been a long while in coming, but some things are worth waiting for. Conflict \u2013 back with a vengeance.\u201d<\/em> Steve Ignorant<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cConflict are the only band apart from the Pistols that has any spunk in them.\u201d<\/em> John Lydon<\/strong> <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Conflict formed in 1981 in Eltham, a district of Southeast London, when frontman Colin Jerwood, inspired by early encounters with the Pistols \u2018Spunk\u2019 bootleg and following The Clash on tour, struck up a friendship with Crass and set about crafting a whole new kind of punk that totally upped the ante in terms anger and confrontation. Crass, the renowned anarchist punk collective, having got Conflict started by releasing their debut single \u2018The House That Man Built\u2019 in 1982 on Crass Records, ended in 1984 as they had always intended. Now it was up to Conflict to pick up the baton and run with it. And they did, charging into the battle lines of authority. A genuine threat. An unstoppable battering-ram of power. THE UNGOVERNABLE FORCE.<\/p>\n\n\n

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The years that followed saw Conflict go from strength to strength, and from threat to threat, peaking on the 18th<\/sup> of April in 1987 at the London Brixton Academy for the \u2018Gathering of the 5,000\u2019 concert. It was an ambitious gathering of the tribes. A climax and explosion of rage and rebellion that inevitably ended up in a police provoked full-scale riot across Brixton with police injuries, arrests, and with the band hopelessly in debt and banned from the majority of major London and UK venues.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Undeterred, Conflict continued into the 90s with their acclaimed \u2018Conclusion\u2019 album and remained a mainstay of the live punk circuit throughout. However, after more than two decades since the release of their (2003) \u2018There\u2019s No Power Without Control\u2019 album, the band are poised to finally release a new album and \u2018This Much Remains\u2019 is set for release on April 25th<\/sup> through Mortarhate\/ Cadiz Music.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Featuring sixteen brand new Conflict creations, the album sees the band keeping one eye on their eventful past, and the other firmly on moving forward, both musically and politically. Animal Liberation are still at the forefront of Conflict\u2019s collective minds, giving a voice to the voiceless on songs such as \u2018A Mother\u2019s Milk\u2019 and \u2018Shut The Fuck Up\u2019, whilst their anger at world governments will never dissipate. \u201cIt\u2019s the same old system and the same old song, forty years later and they\u2019ve still got it wrong,\u201d bellows Colin, still with complete conviction on \u2018The Collusion Exclusion\u2019. This anger, alongside themes of personal loss, environmental issues and those \u2018profit over people\u2019 billionaires like Bezos, Musk and Trump, find Conflict at their most inspired and invigorated.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2018This Much Remains\u2019 also features an appearance by the late Benjamin Zephaniah on the track \u2018Cut The Crap\u2019. Benjamin\u2019s relationship with Conflict goes right back to the infamous Brixton Academy gig in 1987 where he performed with the band and it\u2019s right that his voice is found here, with additional lyrics by recent addition to the band line-up, dual vocalist Fiona Friel (formally of Coventry punks Dragster).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cBenjamin is a legend, and I really felt a weight of responsibility when writing the adjoining lyrics to this song,\u201d admits Fiona. \u201cI had some of his books, so I went to peruse through them and started with \u2018Windrush Child\u2019 as I felt the subject matter would tie in well.  Immediately I saw the line \u201cI am history\u201d and that\u2019s all I needed. I put the book straight down and wrote and wrote and wrote. So much so, once in the studio I had to cut over half of what I had written. I hope I\u2019ve done him proud.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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