The Bronx have just dropped the lead single from their forthcoming record V, which is due on September 22.

Vocalist Matt Caughtran says of the new song: “’Sore Throat’ is a crime scene. A triumphantly tragic story of a manic mind frozen in freefall. The sonic smashing of your moral compass; ‘let your reasons go, let your conscience be, mouth around your gun, now you’re finally free’”

It has the angst and social commentary that has characterised us from the beginning,” guitarist Joby J. Ford adds, “only now the angst is aimed at more than just superficial things and the social commentary is directed at more than just people who like different music than us.”

Check out the new tune, below.

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