Iron Lung Release New Single / Video “Cog II”
From Forthcoming Album Adapting // Crawling
Out April 18 via Iron Lung Records
Announce NYC Show + UK, AUS, JP
Seattle Hometown Release Show / What We Like Fest - Celebrating 18 Years of Iron Lung Records April 18 - 20
L-R Jon Kortland (Guitar / Vocals), Jensen Ward (Drums / Vocals)
Photo By Christina Hamilton
IRON LUNG unleash their vital 64-second onslaught, “Cog II”. The single “grapples with how the governing bodies view their citizenry in a time of crisis. People are treated as an expendable resource not unlike gasoline, compost or potable water. To achieve their ends, they take what they want from us and throw the rest away. So wasteful and inhumane,” Iron Lung express. "To the powers that control existence, human life is worthless. We’re used and discarded, treated like human garbage. They’re waiting for the breakdown. We’re fertilizer. We are worth absolutely nothing. Totally expendable. The process of being replaced has begun again."
Its arresting video presents a patient being prepped and processed for Electro Shock Therapy treatment in 1941 at the University of Nebraska-Omaha, sourced from the National Library of Medicine. Watch it below.
On Adapting // Crawling, the first new album in 12 years from hardcore / DIY vets IRON LUNG, duo Jensen Ward and Jon Kortland take head shots at mental health with specific emphasis on the exacting tolls the past five years have taken on humanity. From the beginning, IRON LUNG have ethically / sonically approached the world: Do It Yourself, obscure, extreme, maladjusted and utterly free from the constraints of “music” or, more widely, rules in general. Each record has been written around a concept.
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Adapting // Crawling acts as a sliced cadaver with each song a newly peeled layer exposing the corrosive effects of deep depression, a failed healthcare system, heavy grief from multiple friends/family deaths, paranoia and distrust of government, meaningless existence and loss. So much loss. When time disappeared between 2020 and 2023, the loss of function, of relation, of drive, of everything was incalculable. Life goes on but we lose a little more each day. To help cope with that crushing reality, Iron Lung finally sat down and wrote about their pain.
In order to not be consumed by it, they built a wall around themselves utilizing an “us versus them” modality in the lyrics. All of the band’s points of view are from the “we” stance and are funneled through their long established lens of antiquated medical procedures and devices. The only times that mode breaks is when quoting an outsider view before rejecting and destroying it. The power belongs to Iron Lung and by association, to the allied listener.
Adapting // Crawling arrives April 18 via the band’s own esteemed imprint, Iron Lung Records. Iron Lung have confirmed performances throughout 2025 across North America, UK, Japan, Australia, Iceland, so on, including a highly anticipated return to NYC this summer. The band are also set to celebrate the label’s 18th anniversary simultaneously with a three day hometown fest - What We Like - which takes over Seattle April 18 - 20. The weekend includes 26 exceptional bands from all around the globe, most of them with releases in the Iron Lung Records fam, plus two films, an art show and local cuisine. The event takes over three venues - all shows, all ages. Tickets and more info are here. For a full list of live dates, see below.
Adapting // Crawling Track List:
01. Adapting
02. Internal Monologue
03. Lifeless Life
04. Shift Work
05. Poisoned Sand
06. Everything is a Void (Album Version)
07. A Veiled Eye
08. Perfect Ending
09. A Loving Act
10. Purgatory Dust
11. Virus
12. Purgatory Dust (Finale)
13. Acres of Skin
14. Hospital Tile
15. Cog II
16. HeLa Cells
17. Failure
18. Survived By…
Iron Lung Live Dates:
Apr 18-20: Seattle, WA - The Vera Project * (WHAT WE LIKE Weekend)
Jun 11: Reykjavik, IS
Jun 13-15: Copenhagen DK - Ungdomshuset (K-Town Hardcore Fest)
Jun 18: London, UK - New River Studios ~
Jun 19: Bristol, UK - Exchange ~
Jun 22: Brooklyn, NY - Union Pool
Jul 11: Brisbane, AU - Crowbar
Jul 12: Sydney, AU - Marrickville Bowls Club
Jul 13: Melbourne, AU - Fairfield Bowls Club
Jul 18: Melbourne, AU - The Tote
Jul 19: Frankston, AU - Singing Bird Studio
Jul 20: Perth, AU - The Bird
Jul 24: Tokyo, JP - Earthdom
Jul 25: Nagoya, JP - Huckfinn
Jul 27: Osaka, JP - Bears
Jul 28: Tokyo, JP - Moonstep
Jul 29: Yokohama, JP - El Puente
* w/ Slant, Bootlicker, Physique, Direct Threat and Crawl Space
~ w/ Bad Breeding
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