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The members of Post Animal between swords.

Post Animal

Moved from High Noon to Majestic.

media release: Post Animal released IRON, their new album – and first album reunited with original band member Djo / Joe Keery in 7+ years - on July 25. In June the band teased the record with another amazing single, “What’s A Good Life,” alongside a video featuring all five members of Post Animal and Keery, which is fitting as all six of them take turns on vocals for this track. Listen to “What’s A Good Life” no , which follows the previously-released album lead single “Last Goodbye” and "Pie In The Sky". 

The music video also features the Omaha Hell Hounds, Nebraska’s premier armored combat team, who invited the guys to their gym while they passed through town. On “What’s A Good Life,” the Hell Hounds give a glimpse into what it’s like to be on their team, performing combat with real weapons, but they also give back to their community hosting charity fundraisers for local non-profits. The band said, “They shifted their weekly strength training plans to accommodate our visit. Great people, real friends, making sure to do what they love to do.”

When Post Animal began recording IRON, it was the first time all six original members were in the studio together for nearly a decade. In 2017, Joe Keery left the band to focus on acting as Stranger Things began to take off, and has since made music under the moniker Djo. Three band members also relocated away from Chicago, while they all explored other projects and toured with other friends. But in 2024, the six musicians started right back up at the beginning, rediscovering that uncompromising closeness of connection they all shared. The product of a few straight weeks together in the middle of the woods in Indiana, IRON not only finds Post Animal reunited with Keery, but is the embodiment of their renewed and ironclad connection.

With each band member bringing in song ideas, and taking turns on lead vocals, the entire record was written and produced by the five members of Post Animal and Keery. It was engineered by Dalton Allison & Charles Glanders, and mixed by DJO co-producer Adam Thein & Allison. “This record felt like a revitalization of our friendships and our band,” Hirshland says. “We always work collaboratively, but it’s amazing how reintroducing Joe into the mix brought back that dynamic from 2017.”