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Missouri Executive Order 44 will release Salt Sermon on August 16 via Learning Curve Records/The Ghost Is Clear Records. The band play a heavy take on noise-rock, summarized as Great Plains hardcore. Or: "Salt Sermon clocks in at just fifteen minutes. From sasscore twang to blackened noisecore, the album drives forward darkly, relentlessly, with Johnson holding court like a manic preacher."

We try to avoid turning it over to PR to explain an album, but sometimes the concept is best kept in its original words:

Based in Kansas City, Missouri Executive Order 44 takes its name from a dark chapter of its state's history: in 1838, amidst tensions between Missouri residents and a burgeoning new Mormon population, Governor Lilburn Boggs issued an order stating, "The Mormons must be treated as enemies, and must be exterminated or driven from the state if necessary for the public peace."

Clad in the bike helmets and white shirts that commonly signify LDS evangelists, the four members of MEO44 – vocalist Jarom Johnson, guitarist Elos Olsen, bassist Esau Fullmer, and drummer Malachi Hatch – use that specific historical moment as their rallying cry as they blast out blistering hardcore anthems in opposition to all forms of persecution. While a majority of bands in the scene take a stance against organized religion, the band flips the script and claims allegiance with the Saints of the 1830s, holding them up as victims of the state's tyranny.

The band previously released the Seventeen Dead in Caldwell County EP.