Jacob the Horse releases new single “Bad New Religion” before upcoming album release.

how the song functions is that it’s all suspicion and reflex. “If you take the last election, the visceral feeling of, ‘he’s going to pull some bullshit,’ and then ‘oh shit, he pulled some bullshit.’ It always feels like we’re in that sort of a collapse, so it’s sort of taking that and then running with it, like, ‘when is the bottom going to fall out?’ but also having this resigned, ‘well, the bottom’s already fallen out.’”

And Fleury ties the chaotic energy of the song back to the band itself: “It’s got a frantic energy that feels very true to us as a group.”
It’s also clear in the video that the song will exist on its own terms. Rubinstien notes the disorienting mixture of animation styles and images that holds together because of how fractured and concentrated the song feels: “This song feels incredibly vulnerable, but also incredibly aggressive at the same time. So the fact that it operates in this way where one minute it’s super cartoony and one minute it’s stark lines or very detailed birds, I think works.”
In other words, part of why Jacob the Horse is the band for right now is because they’re not underestimating what it takes to fight. “I think it’s kind of like plugging your veins into a wall socket,” Rubinstien says. “The band plugs into the wall. The band feeds off of you while you’re listening, or you feed off the band. Either way, there’s a transfusion of energy.”

So, when you throw “Bad New Religion” on, you’re hearing a band fully aware of what it means to have fangs in 2026. And they’re going to make sure you know that too.