“The American Dream Is Killing Me” is accompanied by a movie noir impressed black and white music video, that includes Green Day within the midst of a zombie apocalypse. The video was directed by Brendan Walter and Ryan Baxley and shot in Los Angeles.

The band debuted “The American Dream Is Killing Me” and “Look Ma, No Brains!” from the brand new album dwell final weekend, throughout their Las Vegas, NV, takeover. The band performed a shock, sold-out present on the 800 capability Fremont, the place they carried out Dookie from entrance to again, in addition to two headline performances at When We Have been Younger Competition.

“The American Dream Is Killing Me” was one of many final tracks written and recorded by Green Day for Saviors. “As quickly we reduce it, we stated, Okay, that’s going first,’” says Billie Joe Armstrong, who describes the brand new tune as “a have a look at the way in which the standard American Dream doesn’t work for lots of people – the truth is, it’s hurting lots of people.”

Recorded in London and Los Angeles, Saviors is the most recent collaboration between Green Day and Grammy-winning producer Rob Cavallo, whose notable earlier work with Green Day consists of two of the band’s most iconic albums, 1994’s Dookie and 2004’s American Fool.

The discharge of Saviors comes simply forward of Dookie’s thirtieth anniversary and celebrations have already begun with the discharge of a large deluxe version of the album which incorporates beforehand unreleased Dookie demos – 4-Monitor Demos and Cassette Demos – and Outtakes in addition to two seminal dwell recordings, Reside At Woodstock (1994) and the beforehand unreleased Reside In Barcelona (June 5 ’94). Additionally they launched a brand new t-shirt which featured Donald Trump’s mugshot, with all proceeds going to Greater Good Music Charity to assist present meals for these affected by the Maui fires.