After years of selective activity, Modern Life is War return with a new full-length titled Life on the Moon, slated for release on September 5, 2025.
The album will be out through Deathwish Inc. in partnership with Iodine Recordings. It follows the band’s trajectory of merging hardcore punk’s emotional rawness, this special southern rock vibe with a sense of narrative depth that leans into personal, social, and existential themes.
The first single from the album, Johnny Gone, is now available on streaming platforms.
Vocalist and lyricist Jeff Eaton offered this about the track: “A subvertisement. A joke? A Riddle. I feel so obsolete when it comes to all this and honestly it’s about time. I am constantly thinking of quitting. Johnny (not John Paul Eich, nor John Lyndon nor John Lennon) has been called an aimless folk zero. Accused of riding around in cars and printing revolutionary newspapers and going broke. He has ideas that burn him awake at night, he cannot hold a job. He is erotically moved by economic threats in white envelopes from government agencies. From East Palestine Ohio to Tehran Iran. A song to settle the score and use the platform for something worth it, for once and for the first time, try to have fun with it. Like a neurotic flash of lightning. A ball of fire in the night sky from a chattery missile sent to shatter peacetime. Starring Mickey Mouse, Mahsa Amini, Jinx, Jane and the Queen of California.”
Life on the Moon is Modern Life Is War’s way of sitting with grief and not looking away—an album shaped by the weight of loss, the push-pull between what haunts and what heals. It leans into that space where dreams blur into nightmares, where memory gets tangled with want.
The band’s always had a grip on emotional rawness, but here, they dig even deeper—still intense, still grounded in their no-frills approach, but with a wider lens. Made slowly over the course of several years with longtime collaborator Brooks Strause and close friends, the record feels like both a catharsis and a stretch forward.
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