“The project has been in the works for a long time,” said the founder of Dropkick Murphys. Ken Casey said in a statement. “Nora Guthrie thought his dad would have gotten a kick out of us, loved us, that we were kind of like kindred spirits so to speak, which for us was a huge honor,”

Nora Guthrie provided the group with lyrics written by her father which were incorporated into their 2004 hit song “I’m Shipping Up To Boston”, which reached No. 1 on Billboard’s Bubbling Under Hot 100 chart and was featured in the movie. The dead.

Over the past decade, Nora Guthrie has continued to curate a collection of her father’s unpublished lyrics for the band. In 2021, the co-vocalist of Dropkick Murphys Al Barr took time off to care for his sick mother. Instead of making a “normal Dropkick Murphy album,” says a press release, the band started going through the lyrics that Nora Guthrie had compiled for the band and came up with a proposal. This machine still kills fascistsa record which, according to the band, is “the true fruit of the collaboration of like-minded rebellious artists – albeit almost a century apart”.