For Blood and Empire
Studio album by Anti-Flag
Released	March 21, 2006
Recorded	2005
Genre	Punk Rock
Length	38:58
Label	RCA Records
Producer(s)	Anti-Flag, David Schiffman
Professional reviews
All Music Guide link Punknews.org link
Anti-Flag chronology
The Terror State (2003)	For Blood and Empire (2006)

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The booklet which comes with the CD contains a short essay for all but two songs (State Funeral and Cities Burn) which give more in-depth on the inspirations for the songs, subjects such as the Downing Street Memo and Monsanto Corporation, as well as information on one of Anti-Flag's side projects, Military Free Zone. The CD also comes with two stencils, one of a star formed with broken M-16s (as seen on the cover of Mobilize), and the other of the phrase "What are we going to do about the U.S.A.?" Wikisource has original text related to this article: Downing Street memo The Downing Street memo (occasionally DSM), sometimes described by critics of the Iraq War as the smoking gun memo, contains an overview of a secret 23 July 2002 meeting among United Kingdom Labour government, defence and intelligence figures, discussing... The Monsanto Company (NYSE: MON) is a multinational agricultural biotechnology corporation. ... Their fifth release, Mobilize is a punk rock/hardcore punk album by Anti-Flag. ...

The song "Emigre" (which on the promotional version was originally titled "Exodus") features an adaptation of Martin Niemoller's poem First they came. Rev. ... First They Came. ...

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"The Press Corpse" is featured in the video game Tony Hawk's Downhill Jam. This article or section does not adequately cite its references or sources. ...

Track listing

1. "I'd Tell You But..." – 2:10
2. "The Press Corpse" – 3:21
3. "Emigre" – 2:59*
4. " The Project For a New American Century" – 3:17
5. "Hymn For the Dead" – 3:39
6. "This Is the End (For You My Friend)" – 3:11
7. "1 Trillion Dollar$" – 2:30**
8. "State Funeral" – 2:01
9. "Confessions of an Economic Hit Man" – 2:43
10. "War Sucks, Let's Party!" – 2:18
11. "The W.T.O. Kills Farmers" – 3:32
12. "Cities Burn" – 3:03
13. " Depleted Uranium is a War Crime" – 4:07

14 "Corporate Rock" – 1:53 (Only appears on the Australian release of For Blood and Empire)
14 "Marc Defiant" – 1:03 (Demo of song only appears on albums vinyl release)
14 "New Millenium" - 3:08 (Only appears on the Japan release of For Blood and Empire) The Project for the New American Century, or PNAC, is a Washington, DC based think tank. ... This Is The End is a song by the Political Punk band Anti-Flag, it is taken from the album For Blood and Empire. The song was in part of the soundtrack for Madden NFL 07 and NHL 07. ... This article or section does not adequately cite its references or sources. ... Depleted Uranium is a War Crime (4:07) is the thirteenth track off of For Blood and Empire (2006) by Anti-Flag. ...

• "Emigre" was originally called "Exodus" on the promo version of the album.
  • "1 Trillion Dollar$" was originally called "One Trillion Dollars" on the promo version of the album. Furthermore the lyrics were changed from "fuck the world, kill them all" to "fuck the world, fuck em all"

Personnel

• Justin Sane- Guitar & Lead Vocals
• Chris Head- Guitar & Vocals
• Chris #2- Bass & Lead Vocals
• Pat Thetic- Drums & Vocals

Justin Sane at an Anti Flag show in Philadelphia Justin Sane (born 21-Feb-1973) is the guitarist and co-singersongwriter (along with bassist Chris Barker) of the political punk-rock band Anti-Flag. ... Chris Barker (AKA Chris #2) is the bassist and Co- vocalist of the american Political Punk band Anti Flag. ...

Trivia

• The band says the phrase "whoa" over 100 times on this album

See also

• Confessions of an Economic Hit Man (the book for which the song was named)
• Lee Kyung Hae (Track 11 relates to his suicide at an anti-WTO protest)

Confessions of an Economic Hitman Confessions of an Economic Hit Man (ISBN 0-452-28708-1) is an auto-biographical book written by John Perkins and published in 2004. ... Lee Kyung Hae (1947 – September 10, 2003) was a South Korean farmer and activist who opposed globalization and protested for the local farmers and fishermen of his home country whose jobs were threatened. ... This article or section does not adequately cite its references or sources. ...

External links

• Essays from the CD booklet