The Flatliners Aren’t Interested in Nostalgia

The best punk bands don’t age gracefully.

They either calcify into nostalgia acts, trapped inside the ghosts of their own records, or they disappear entirely under the weight of survival, burnout, and adulthood.

The Flatliners chose a different path.

For more than two decades, the Flatliners have grown alongside their audience instead of chasing the ghosts of their earlier records. And on Cold World, released May 8 through Dine Alone Records in Canada and Equal Vision Records in the U.S., that trajectory feels sharper than ever.