The Empire Strikes First

The Empire Strikes First is the thirteenth studio album by American punk rock band Bad Religion, released on June 8, 2004. The album is heavily influenced by the then-current Iraq War and also has some nods to George Orwell's novel Nineteen Eighty-Four, the latter most likely inspired by the Patriot Act. The album also marks the rare instance that non-members of Bad Religion received a writing credit, as Chris Wollard of Hot Water Music co-wrote two songs. The song "Social Suicide" appears in the video games Tony Hawk's Project 8 and MX vs. ATV Untamed. From Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Emp...) under Creative Commons Attribution CC-BY-SA 3.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/...)