Following the announcement of their new album God Save The Gun due October 17th via Loma Vista Recordings, Militarie Gun share new single ‘Throw Me Away’. LISTEN HERE + WATCH HERE + PRE-SAVE LP HERE.

The melodic anthem showcases vocalist and primary songwriter Ian Shelton’s distinct talent for mixing hyper energetic songwriting with heavy lyrical content in a way that hits that much harder. We hear Shelton on the precipice of downfall with ‘B A D I D E A‘ and with ‘Throw Me Away’, we dive with him into the valleys of self-doubt. Additionally, ‘Throw Me Away’ arrives with a performance video directed by Shelton.

God Save The Gun will also include the aforementioned single ‘B A D I D E A‘, which arrived with a video directed by Shelton and aired on Apple Music’s New Music Daily Radio with Zane Lowe. To usher in the God Save The Gun era, Shelton sat with Rolling Stone to discuss the meaning behind the forthcoming album, how it came to be, and more. Read the piece HERE.

Speaking about the meaning behind the new single, Shelton shares, “‘Throw Me Away’ is about the feeling of only being valued when you’re visible or useful and the desperate need to hold onto that. What someone loves about you one day might be cited as a reason they hate you now. It’s the desire for external validation and also the deep resentment of it.”

God Save The Gun is a very human document of being at your worst when you should be on top of the world – an absurdist guide to the intersection of self-destruction and self-belief. “I’m well aware that being this vulnerable turns my personal trauma into a marketing hook for this album,” Shelton says. “But I’m fine with it, if not provoking it. Over the past couple years, as I spoke about addiction from the perspective of someone affected by it, I became the one struggling with it. There’s a farcical logic to entering a situation, fully knowing the consequences, and doing it anyway – but that’s where my head was when I started leaning on drinking.”

Militarie Gun’s 2023 debut album, Life Under The Gun was centred around lifelong cycles of hurt, with the singer looking back at growing up with family members struggling with addiction, and while God Save The Gun is still tethered to that history, this time, he’s not the witness—he’s the protagonist. It wasn’t until the band was scheduled to enter the studio in early 2025 that Shelton realised he was the one who needed to hear God Save The Gun’s message.

Despite all of the inner turmoil leading to God Save The Gun, Shelton and his bandmates – guitaristsWilliam Acuña and Kevin Kiley, bassist Waylon Trim, and drummer David Stalsworth – more than rose to the challenge of following up Militarie Gun’s acclaimed debut. Stalsworth, Trim, and Kiley all joined during Life Under The Gun’s extensive touring cycle after a series of member shakeups that would hobble most bands, but only made Militarie Gun stronger.

Along with the honed in line up, God Save The Gun was created with a village of new and old collaborators. Shelton continued his creative relationship with songsmith Phillip Odom, co-wrote with longtime conspirator and frequent harmoniser James Goodson of Dazy, and newly tapped Nick Panellaof MSPAINT, among others. Militarie Gun also worked with producer / engineer Riley MacIntyre (Adele, Arlo Parks, The Kills), who was chosen not only to make the songs sound huge, but also to access the sentiments behind them.