“Remnants” starts like a march to war. The intro has that gathering-before-the-fight feel, then the band comes in and the battle has basically started. Moral Law are back in full Denver XVX mode, carrying that metallic weight they have been working with for years and giving it enough momentum to hit hard without dressing the whole thing up.
Good to have them back here.
We’re premiering “Remnants” below ahead of its wider release on Friday, October 9. The track comes from Moral Law’s next LP, “Solemn Vows to a World Deplored”, due this winter through New Age Records.
When we last had Moral Law on IDIOTEQ in September 2021, the band had just signed with New Age Records and were preparing to record their debut full-length. Alex Morales told us at the time:
“We are more than excited to be working with New Age Records, a label that has put out some of our favorite releases and are honored to be amongst such great company. Looking forward to everything to come”
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New Age released that debut, “The Looming End”, in 2022. Moral Law followed it with the two-song “Justice / Epoch” in July 2024. Five years after that first signing piece, the label relationship is still going and another full-length is almost here.
The politics have stayed equally direct. Moral Law are vegan straight edge, with animal liberation, earth liberation and drug-free resistance central to the band from the beginning. Their stuff comes out of the 1990s ecotage and edge-metal strain of hardcore, with plenty of 2000s metalcore in there as well. Back in 2022, Alex described “Abolitionist” as their most direct statement on veganism and animal exploitation.
“Remnants” comes with a pretty serious stretch of road time attached.
Moral Law start a nine-show West Coast run the same day the single drops:
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October 9 – Salt Lake City, UT – Old Cuss Cafe
October 10 – Idaho Falls, ID – The Lomax
October 11 – Missoula, MT – Zootown Arts
October 12 – Seattle, WA – Black Lodge
October 13 – Portland, OR – High Limit Room
October 15 – San Francisco, CA – Neck of the Woods
October 16 – San Bernardino, CA – St. John’s Episcopal Church
October 17 – Las Vegas, NV – Remorse Skate Shop
October 18 – Tucson, AZ – Solar Culture Gallery
Then Europe follows in November:
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November 17 – Bochum, Germany
November 18 – Berlin, Germany
November 19 – Saalfeld, Germany
November 20 – Eindhoven, Netherlands – Revolution Calling Fest
November 21 – Hannover, Germany
November 22 – Hamburg, Germany
November 23 – The Hague, Netherlands
November 24 – London, UK
November 25 – Folkestone, UK
November 26 – Ypres, Belgium
November 27 – Nantes, France
November 28 – Cherbourg, France
November 29 – Paris, France
That European run puts Moral Law around bills with Earth Crisis, Escalate, SPY, Combust, Sunami and Restraining Order. Revolution Calling have them on the Friday in Eindhoven alongside Blood for Blood, Path of Resistance, Foundation, SPY, Project X, Restraining Order and a pile of other hardcore names.
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“Solemn Vows to a World Deplored” follows this winter on New Age Records.
