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MEINSCHAFT
Empire of Liberty
Empire of Liberty

14-song album

Format: CD
Set for release: July 4, 2026
Total running time: 55:41
File under: Post-Punk / Industrial / Glitch
Album onesheet: DA-21 (.PDF)
Artist's website: Instagram.com/Meinschaft/

[ COMING SUMMER 2026 ]

Tracklist:
  1. Freezing Rain (featuring FKA ICE)
  2. Lux Æterna, Part One
  3. Lux Æterna, Part Two
  4. Gay Parade
  5. French Erection
  6. Event Horizon
  7. Biting the Hand
  8. Remember to Remember
    (You Must Die)
  9. Anacalypto
  10. Pneumatic Waltz
  11. Wave Train
  12. Mother & Son
  13. Haints & Sinners
  14. The Fall
  15. For Francis Scott Key*

* = CD-only unlisted bonus track

All songs written and performed by MEINSCHAFT, and published by Discriminate Audio Publishing (BMI).

Info:

Empire of Liberty is the fourth album from MEINSCHAFT, the Southern Appalachian-based project of Evan Lipson and Evmh. Lipson was a founding member of the bands Normal Love and Satanized. Evmh produced the synaesthetic internet radio show Evcast, with each of the nearly 150 episodes pairing obscure music from around the globe with different perfumes/fragrances. Empire of Liberty also features appearances from: FKA ICE, Greg Kelley, Jonathan Moritz, Ben Bennett, Jack Wright, Mike Pride, and Brandon Seabrook.

Empire of Liberty was recorded, mixed, and produced by MEINSCHAFT in East Tennessee from 2019 to 2025, and was mastered by Alex Nagle. The album is scheduled for release to coincide with the 250th birthday of The United States of America, as a jewel case CD including a 15-page CD insert booklet designed by Alex Hampshire, in a limited edition of 300 copies.


Reviews:

    "MEINSCHAFT play with words and symbols: religious, political, personal, other, regurgitating and rearranging them, holding them up to the light. They present us with warped reflections of ugly culture and toxic politics. They parrot our words and rearrange our musical tropes. The resulting combination contains many dualities and contradictions."
          – Baited Area

    "A sonic blur of epic ballads, original soundtrack recordings, guitar-fronted ambience with swirls of electronic cacophony, timeless samples and decisive vocals directing the entire aural soirée. ... MEINSCHAFT is a consummate troupe delivering enthralling creativity in both songwriting and performance."
          – Lost in a Sea of Sound

    "A MEINSCHAFT performance experience is emancipatory for those trapped in believing the magic power of political memes and symbols. It is aimed at freeing us all from the horror of contemporary left and right politics, and get us talking about reality instead of being diverted from it. To encourage them to perform is to participate in a far better future than to be mired in a subjectivity of hate and fear."
          – Jack Wright

    "MEINSCHAFT sails a leaking vessel through the stagnant swill of Western decay, a ship patched with irony and steered by indifference, its course set toward the great abyss of progress. The winds of indulgence howl through its sails, whipping the waters into a vortex of spectacle and ritual, a delirious dance toward the inevitable."
          – Post-Punk.com

    "MEINSCHAFT is like a clown leading a circus of pain, shoveling toxic detritus into piles then slithering away and laughing from the sidelines at a game it refuses to play."
          – The Chattanooga Pulse

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