“Help Me” first single to be released on 23 june from the forthcoming album “Agony and Irony” out 30 june on V2/Cooperative music.

Love. Alcoholism. Depression. Fire. Drugs. Blasphemy. Death.
 
Those are the usual song topics covered by Alkaline Trio through their previous five albums, starting with 1998’s now-classic Goddamnit on pioneering indie Asian Man Records through 2005’s Crimson, the band’s last album for Vagrant Records.
 
With Agony and Irony, the band’s debut for V2/Cooperative, produced by Josh Abraham [Linkin Park, Slayer, Atreyu, 30 Seconds to Mars] at his L.A.-based Pulse Recording, singer/guitarist, Matt Skiba, singer/bassist, Dan Andriano and drummer Derek Grant insist they have found a light at the end of the tunnel.

The album cover is by renowned British designer John Yates, who created memorable sleeves for the Dead Kennedys, among others, during his 10 years at Jello Biafra’s legendary punk label Alternative Tentacles.
 
Since being formed in 1996 in McHenry County, Illinois, a suburb northwest of Chicago, Alkaline Trio has built a loyal following. The band has sold more than a million records, not by garnering a lot of radio airplay, but by forging an intense relationship with their fan base through relentless touring and, of course, a connection through their music.

Catch Alkaline Trio at this years Give It A Name festival in May and Reading and Leeds in August. More UK touring to be unveiled soon.