Take out the fascist trash
Their symbols will burn to ash
Enough is enough
Georgia’s Tears for the Dying rise from the red clay and black velvet of the American South with boots laced tight and politics bared. A Southern gothic outfit equal parts deathrock dirge and post-punk propulsion, the Athens-based trio: Adria Stembridge, Page Dukes, and The Beast – lace their music with razor-wire radicalism. From the start, theirs has been a mission stitched from anti-fascist threads, dyed deep in pro-queer defiance and a refusal to bow to bigotry masquerading as aesthetic.
Through shrieking guitars, slithering basslines, and fire-eyed live rituals, the band dismantles the idea that goth is apolitical, that eyeliner exempts accountability. In an era where trans lives are targeted, fascism festers in plain view, and culture is commodified into silence, Tears for the Dying press back…loudly, laceratingly.
Their latest offering is a recharged invocation: Nazi Goths Fuck Off, originally penned by Suzi Sabotage, now reimagined with her blessing and given new bile to mince and maul. This anthem is a direct and deliberate gut-punch aimed at those who goose-step through alt scenes with irony as a shield and hate stitched behind slogans. Tears For The Dying’s interpretation growls for expulsion, for purging, for the kind of scene self-cleansing too often avoided.
Here, the personal is political, the boots do stomp back, and the message is unmistakable: no safe spaces for jackboots in eyeliner. Not then. Not now. Not ever.
“Our arrangement is shaped by the increasingly heated political and emotional climate in the US,” says Stembridge. “As the country accelerates toward full-blown fascist authoritarianism, this release is not just timely, but necessary….Fascism, racism, and all forms of bigotry have no place in goth culture. At its core, goth has always been a refuge for the outsiders – for those who didn’t fit into the mainstream, who questioned power, and who found strength in vulnerability and difference. Any attempt to twist this culture into something exclusionary or hateful betrays its very roots. The scene was built by people of color, queer people, feminists, and all seekers of social and political justice – and we will not let it be co-opted by those who seek to erase that history or silence the voices that shaped it.”
Listen to Nazi Goths Fuck Off below and order the song here. This fantastic offering follows the band’s searing cover of Dolly Parton’s classic, Jolene.
Tears For The Dying will be hitting the road this spring and early summer. Catch them live on the following dates:
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Apr 25 The Conduit Orlando, FL
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Apr 26 Bar Nancy Miami, FL
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Apr 27 new world tampa Tampa, FL
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May 6 The Masquerade – Hell Atlanta, GA
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Jun 14 Healer Indianapolis, IN
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