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'' (2009), and their second one to be recorded under its current incarnation (

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). Work on ''...Honor Is All We Know'' began in 2011 and it was originally planned for a 2012 release, but was repeatedly delayed while the band continued touring and writing new material, and its members were busy with their own projects. After three years of writing and recording, the album was finished in 2014. ''...Honor is all We Know'' is Rancid's shortest studio album; at under 33 minutes, it is a-minute-and-a-half shorter than their 1993 self-titled debut album.

Background and recording

Rancid began work on ''...Honor Is All We Know'' as early as 2011. Asked in August 2010 if Rancid was going to release an eighth studio album anytime soon, bassist

replied, "We haven't really figured that out yet. We're not going anywhere aughs We're going to do something, we just don't know what it is yet. We're always together and we all talk everyday. We're just doing different stuff right now." On May 27, 2011, Rancid announced that they would do a small US tour supporting

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from August 25 through September 4, 2011, to enable them to warm up before entering the studio in September to begin recording their eighth studio album with producer

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. They announced that they would embark on a 20th anniversary world tour in 2012 to accompany the album. However, the album did not arrive in 2012, and frontman

stated that it would be released after Transplants' third album ''

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''. On February 6, 2013, Rancid uploaded a picture to their Facebook page of the band in the studio with the caption, "Recording has begun." Branden also noted on his Instagram page that recording was completed in March 2013, but did not explain the reason for the release delay. In a December 2013 interview on Reddit, drummer Branden Steineckert revealed that the eighth Rancid studio album was called ''...Honor Is All We Know'', and would be released in early 2014. The track listing and artwork for ''...Honor Is All We Know'' were revealed on September 28, 2014, and on the day after, Rancid announced that the album would be released on October 27, 2014. Armstrong originally recorded the title track as part of his side project

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. On September 30, 2014, Rancid released a performance video of "Collision Course", "Honor Is All We Know" and "Evil's My Friend".Archived a
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The band started to preview the album's songs through their website a few days later with the release of "Face Up", "Already Dead" and "Diabolical", which followed over a week later. The album includes a cover of "Everybody Suffering" by

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and retitled "Everybody's Sufferin'." This is the first cover the band has released on a full length since they covered "Get Out of My Way" by

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on their debut LP. "Everybody's Sufferin'" is mis-credited as being written by Rancid in the liner notes.

Track listing

Bonus tracks

Personnel

Rancid *

– lead vocals,

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s, mixer (credited as Tim Timebomb) *

– guitars, lead and backing vocals *

–

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, backing and lead vocals *

– drums,

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Additional personnel *

Mike McColgan Michael McColgan is an American musician, and is a founding member and former lead singer of the American punk band Street Dogs and a founding member and former original lead singer of the American Celtic punk band Dropkick Murphys. Early years ...

- backing vocals *

Skinhead Rob Robert Aston (born October 29, 1978), better known by his stage name Skinhead Rob, is an American rapper best known as a founding member of the rap rock group the Transplants. He is also the lead vocalist in a D-beat punk band named Death Ma ...

- backing vocals *Chris Hollosy - backing vocals *

Kevin Bivona Kevin Bivona (born November 8, 1986) is an American musician and audio engineer best known for his work with the Transplants and Tim Armstrong. He is currently the guitarist for the ska punk band the Interrupters. Early career In 2005, Bivo ...

B3 organ The Hammond organ is an electric organ invented by Laurens Hammond and John M. Hanert and first manufactured in 1935. Multiple models have been produced, most of which use sliding drawbars to vary sounds. Until 1975, Hammond organs generated s ...

piano The piano is a stringed keyboard instrument in which the strings are struck by wooden hammers that are coated with a softer material (modern hammers are covered with dense wool felt; some early pianos used leather). It is played using a keybo ...

, percussion *Brett Gurewitz – producer, backing vocals *Kevin Bivona – mixer,

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*Phillip Broussard Jr. - engineer *Jeff Halbert - assistant engineer *Ruff Stewart - studio tech * Bob Ludwig - mastering

Charts

References

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