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Canada's No Warning have set the date for LP #3.

Canada's No Warning have set the date for LP #3. 

After a handful of reunion tours and after releasing two seven-inches, No Warning have crushed their once long-standing hiatus completely by today announcing their new album, 'Torture Culture'. This new LP will be the band's third album overall, and their first full-length since 2004's 'Suffer, Survive' and is due October 13th via Bad Actors/Last Gang.

Of course, an album announcement is great and all but you do need music to back it all up and the Toronto band delivers on this front with this announcement being shared by the release of their new record's lead single 'In The City'. The new three-minute tune starts off brooding and heavy, before descending into a breakneck pace; once again capitalizing on the band's past crossover sound of Bay Area thrash and New York City hardcore. 'Torture Culture', as a whole, has been touted by the band and their PR as being more of a spiritual successor to their 2002 debut 'Ill Blood', than 'Suffer, Survive'. Either way, long time fans know what's in store!

Following the band's comeback 7", 'Resurrection of the Wolf', the group found positive interpersonal vibes between themselves - and lyricist Ben Cook, guitarists Jordan Posner and Matt DeLong, bassist Ryan Gavel and drummer Jesse Labovitz - during their reunion shows in North America and Europe, encouraging them to continue playing together. Which, as it turns out, has led to this new album's creation. While the band underwent a quiet near-dissolution back in 2005, its members never fully disappeared from the scene. Some of them became in-demand ghostwriters for major artists in the worlds of pop, hip-hop, pop punk, and rock whereas hardcore heavyweights Terror recruited Posner. Cook, for instance, became involved with plenty of Canadian musical projects from Fucked Up, Yacht Club, and his solo alias, Young Guv.

For this release, No Warning collaborated with engineer/mixer Chris Creglia, with mastering duties falling to Joel Grind - the mastermind and sole official member of Toxic Holocaust. Cook said this of this new No Warning song that:

"We have attempted to express the condition of the human mind that is an outcome of being brainwashed by corporate controlled social media, through a modern and classic feeling hardcore album. Kind of like the scene in Clockwork Orange, when Alex has the lid locks over his eyes and is being forced to watch horrific footage over and over again. We are trying to manifest that torturous feeling; that in a time like this even if you want to look away you can't escape the propagandized media, especially amidst the thick of an overpopulated garbage pumping world. The evolution we have experienced both mentally and physically, and the day-to-day panic and anxiety that we feel is actually a result of our own species' selfish and repulsive impulses."

Stream 'In The City' below!