Featuring an appearance by the late Benjamin Zephaniah • Selected UK and EU dates in 2025 Full press and promotion by James Sherry at Division Promotions Conflict formed in 1981 in Eltham, southeast London, when the band’s frontman, Colin Jerwood, inspired by his early encounters with the Pistols’ bootleg Spunk and following The Clash on tour, befriended Crass and set about creating a whole new kind of punk that totally raised the stakes in terms of anger and confrontation. Crass, the famous anarcho-punk collective, launched Conflict by releasing their first single The House That Man Bult in 1982 on Crass Records, and ceased operations in 1984 as they had always intended. It was now up to Conflict to take up the baton and run with it. And they did, throwing themselves into the battle lines of authority. The years that followed saw Conflict grow from strength to strength, reaching their peak on 18 April 1987 at London’s Brixton Academy for the Gathering of the 5,000 concert. A high point and an explosion of rage and rebellion that inevitably led to a full-scale police-induced riot, with injuries, arrests and a band desperately in debt and banned from most major venues in London and the UK. Undeterred, Conflict continued into the 90s with their acclaimed album Conclusion and remained a mainstay of the live punk circuit throughout the decade. However, more than two decades after the release of their album There’s No Power Without Control (2003), the band is back with This Much Remains. Featuring sixteen new Conflict creations, the album sees the band keeping one eye on their turbulent past and the other firmly on the road ahead, both musically and politically. Animal rights remain at the forefront of Conflict’s collective mind, giving a voice to the voiceless on songs such as A Mother’s Milk and Shut The Fuck Up, while their anger at world governments will never subside. Also featuring an appearance by the late Benjamin Zephaniah on the track Cut The Crap, This Much Remains is the sound of a band that continues to surprise and move forward, decades after their beginnings.