On Adapting // Crawling, the first new album in 12 years from hardcore / DIY vets IRON LUNG (duo Jensen Ward and Jon Kortland) take headshots at mental health with specific emphasis on the exacting tolls the past five years have taken on humanity. The “song-infected-with-another-song” concept behind Adapting // Crawling’s centerpiece and triptych singles “Purgatory Dust” / “Virus” / “Purgatory Dust (Finale)” was one IRON LUNG had always wanted to try.

“At its core, ‘Purgatory Dust’ is about people not taking any precautions during the pandemic, causing even more of a spread and way more of a stupid panic,” Jensen explains. “Then we introduce ‘Virus’ in the middle of the tune and let it wreak havoc for almost too long. When ‘Dust’ comes back it deals with the fallout from infection be it death or long-term illness. That behavior really freaked me out during Covid, probably because I have studied the Polio epidemic a ton over the course of this band and people behaved pretty much exactly the same way back in the 50s. The echoes of it are staggering really. Same idiocy. Same willful ignorance and hostility toward reason. Human nature is insane. I am surprised our species has lived this long.”   

Iron Lung Live Dates:

Mar 07: San Francisco, CA – Great American Music Hall #
Mar 15: Orlando, FL – Will’s Pub
Apr 18-20: Seattle, WA – The Vera Project * (WHAT WE LIKE Weekend)
Jun 13-15: Copenhagen DK – Ungdomshuset (K-Town Hardcore Fest)
Jul 11: Sydney, AU
Jul 12: Sydney, AU
Jul 13: Brisbane, AU
Jul 18: Melbourne, AU
Jul 19: Frankston, AU
Jul 20: Perth, AU
Jul 24: Sendai, JP
Jul 25: Tokyo, JP
Jul 26: Osaka, JP
Jul 27: Nagoya, JP
Jul 28: Yokohama, JP
Jul 29: Tokyo, JP
Sep 06: Los Angeles, CA – CY Fest

# w/ Ceremony
*  w/ Slant, Bootlicker, Physique, Direct Threat and Crawl Space