Citizen announce ‘Everybody Is Going To Heaven’ 10 year reissue (exclusive vinyl & new bonus track)

Just about a week ago, we were watching Citizen opening for their friends Turnover on the Peripheral Vision 10th anniversary tour, and now Citizen have announced some 10th anniversary plans for their 2015 sophomore album, Everybody Is Going To Heaven. It’s getting a deluxe reissue that comes out this Friday (6/27) via Run For Cover, and it features the original album plus EIGTH-era rarity “Nail In Your Hand” (originally available on a tour-only flexi), a re-imagining of “Heaviside” by rising shoegazer Wisp, and six demos from the album sessions. We’ve got an exclusive “bloodshot red” vinyl variant available in the BV shop, limited to 250.

At a time when so many of Citizen’s emo/punk peers were drifting towards shoegaze and other softer sounds (like Turnover), Citizen went in the exact opposite direction with Everybody Is Going To Heaven, a caustic post-hardcore album with echoes of The Jesus Lizard and In Utero. The feedback at the time was mixed, but today it’s one of Citizen’s most beloved records, and it put them on the path towards crafting a catalog in which no two records sound alike, as guitarist Nick Hamm reflects:

Everybody Is Going to Heaven was an interesting time in our lives. Youth had caught on in a way that we didn’t expect nor were we prepared for. I think our best bet at a follow-up was something that didn’t attempt to follow it up at all. It reflected our feelings and taste at the time and felt unlike anything else that was happening around us. Looking back, I don’t think anything, even Youth, has bought us the longevity that Everybody is Going to Heaven has. It positioned us as a band that would never release the same album twice and we’re thankful to have an audience that has ridden along with us for the last ten years.

Along with the reissue announcement, Citizen have also shared a new lyric video for “Nail In Your Hand.” It’s a song that’s every bit as good as Everybody Is Going To Heaven‘s proper album tracks, and it fits right in not just with this album but with the music Citizen have been making more recently too. Check it out below.

The Michigan/Ohio-based band will perform Everybody Is Going To Heaven in full at a hometown-area Detroit show on October 11 at Russell Industrial Center with Saves The Day, No Warning, and FearDorian; and they’re also playing Riot Fest and Furnace Fest.

Pick up our exclusive “bloodshot red” vinyl variant of the EIGTH reissue here and check out a mock-up below.

Tracklist
1. Cement
2. Dive Into My Sun
3. Numb Yourself
4. Heaviside
5. My Favorite Color
6. Weave Me (Into Yr Sin)
7. Stain
8. Ten
9. Yellow Love
10. Ring of Chain
11. Nail In Your Hand
12. Heaviside (Wisp Version)
13. Cement (Demo)
14. Dive Into My Sun (Demo)
15. Numb Yourself (Demo)
16. Heaviside (Demo)
17. My Favorite Color (Demo)
18. Yellow Love (Demo)

Citizen — 2025 Tour Dates
09/19 Chicago, IL @ Riot Fest
10/05 Birmingham, AL @ Furnace Fest
10/11 Detroit, MI @ Russell Industrial Center (EIGTH 10 Year Anniversary Show w/ Saves The Day, No Warning, FearDorian)

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For more on Everybody Is Going To Heaven, I discuss the album in our video list of 10 emo albums that turn 10 this year: