''For Blood and Empire'' is the sixth studio album by the American punk rock band Anti-Flag. It was released on March 21, 2006. It was the band's first release on

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, which caused the band to receive criticism from many due to their initially

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message.

Background

The booklet which comes with the CD contains a short essay for all but two songs ("State Funeral" and "Cities Burn") which gives more in-depth perspective on the inspirations for the song subjects such as the

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and Monsanto Company Corporation, as well as information on one of Anti-Flag's side projects, Military Free Zone. The CD also comes with two stencils, of the "Gunstar", a star formed with broken M-16s as seen on the cover of ''

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'', and the phrase "What are we going to do about the U.S.A.?". Mike Ski of The A.K.A.s did the art direction, design and layout design for the album art. The song "Emigre" (which on the promotional version was originally called "Exodus") includes an adaptation of

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's poem "

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". Songs from the album were used by several video games. "This is the End (For You My Friend)" is used in two EA Sports video games, ''

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'' and ''

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''. "The Press Corpse" is used in the video games ''

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'' and ''

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''. By April 3, 2008, the album had sold 97,000 copies.

Track listing

Personnel

Justin Sane Justin Cathal Geever (born February 21, 1973), known professionally as Justin Sane, is an American musician. He is the lead guitarist, singer and songwriter of Anti-Flag, a punk rock band formed in 1988 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, known for i ...

- guitar, lead vocals on tracks 1, 2, 4, 5, 7, 9, 11, 13 *Chris Head - guitar, backing vocals *Chris #2 - bass guitar, lead vocals on tracks 1, 3, 6, 8, 10, 12 *

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- drums, backing vocals

Charts

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