Some names need no introduction, only respect. In the concrete jungle where hardcore was born, Agnostic Front remains the voice of the dispossessed, those tired of being silent, those who fight every day to stay alive. More than 40 years after their first roar, Roger Miret and Vinnie Stigma return with Echoes In Eternity, an album that doesn’t seek to reinvent anything: what it does is remind you why New York is written with blood, sweat, and feedback.
Out November 7th, under the banner of the Reigning Phoenix Music (RPM) label and with Mike Dijan on production, the band delivered 15 tracks of pure social dynamite. From the first drum beat on “Way Of War,” you feel the fury that can only come from decades of watching the world repeat itself in its misery. Miret roars against politics, manipulation, and institutional violence with the conviction of someone who has experienced what he sings about.
“Turn Up The Volume” is a direct anthem to the pit, a call to unity, to body to body, to leave it all on stage. But perhaps the most surprising moment comes with “Matter of Life & Death,” an explosive collaboration with Darryl “DMC” McDaniels that blends the pulse of New York hip-hop with the rawness of classic hardcore. A natural connection between two schools that always shared the same class range.
The sound of “Echoes in Eternity” is a kick in the face: saturated, dirty, but honest. Dijan manages to capture the spirit of the Lower East Side in every riff; Stigma‘s guitars sound like rusty knives on the sidewalk, while the bass and drums pound like a stampede of cobblestones. Everything is where it should be: no embellishments, no tricks. Just the truth. The lyrics, for their part, are a chronicle of survival.
Agnostic Front isn’t here to please, but to remind you that the system remains the same, that the struggle continues. There is rage, yes, but also wisdom: the echo of four decades of street warfare that turns into pure resistance. Visually, Ernie Parada‘s art and An Maes‘s photography complete the picture: a raw, almost documentary-like portrait of a band that refuses to die or soften its message.
With the “East Meets West” tour just around the corner alongside Strung Out, Murphy’s Law, and La Armada, the message is clear: Agnostic Front doesn’t live in the past; it continues to write it. Echoes In Eternity is the testament of a life dedicated to hardcore: unfiltered, uncompromising, unafraid. Forty years later, Roger Miret still screams for us all. And the echo, as the title promises, will continue to resonate for eternity.
Release Date: November 7th, 2025
Record Label: Reigning Phoenix Music
Genre: Hardcore
Musicians:
- Roger Miret / Vocals
- Mike Gallo / Bass
- Craig Silverman / Guitars, backing vocals
- Vinnie Stigma / Guitars, backing vocals
- Danny Lamagna / Drums
Echoes In Eternity Track-list:
- Way Of War
- You Say
- Matter Of Life & Death
- Tears For Everyone
- Divided
- Sunday Matinee
- I Can’t Win
- Turn Up The Volume
- Art Of Silence
- Shots Fired
- Hell To Pay
- Evolution Of Madness
- Skip The Trial
- Obey
- Eyes Open Wide
Order the album here.
Four decades in, Agnostic Front still swing like underdogs with nothing to lose, turning Echoes In Eternity into a 15-track gut punch of street-born hardcore fury. Not a nostalgia lap but a fresh wound torn open in the present, it proves that as long as there’s injustice in the streets, this band will be there, roaring back in our faces
- Songwriting
- Musicianship
- Originality
- Production
