[2] Their live show has been described as "recalling at various points PIL's dub-style expansions, Afrobeat, industrial, no wave, free jazz, Suicide, the XTC of "Travels in Nihilon," Nick Cave's fire and brimstone, and musique concrète.

[8] In the spring of the following year, the band premiered and toured the Eastern US screening the sixth installment of Brendan Canty of Fugazi and Christoph Green's Burn to Shine film series.

His memoirs, Souvenirs de la Bataille d'Alger, served as the basis for Gillo Pontecorvo's film The Battle of Algiers, which Yacef helped produce, and was one of the inspirations for the band's name.

[21] This marked a frenzied period of activity and collaboration for the group beginning with their featured appearance on Massive Attack's Eutopia audiovisual EP alongside Christiana Figueres;[22] the release of "Cleveland 20/20" a 50-minute expansion and re-imagining of their song "Cleveland" in the wake of the George Floyd protests;[23] Fisher's guest feature on Billy Woods and Moor Mother's BRASS album;[24] Mahan's first solo outing as Dead Meat;[25] as well as Tesche and Mahan releasing two albums as the award-winning multimedia collaboration, Nun Gun, with visual artist Brad Feuerhelm.

[26] Nun Gun's debut release, Mondo Decay, pairs a book of Feuerhelm's photography with an accompanying original soundtrack cassette that features guest contributions from Mark Stewart of The Pop Group, Adrian Sherwood, ONO, Mourning [A] BLKstar, artists Luiza Prado and Farbod Kokabi, as well as authors Blake Butler, Michael Salu, and Sohail Daulatzai.

[29] They quickly followed it up with the blistering single, "Irreversible Damage", which featured a rare verse from Rage Against the Machine's Zack de la Rocha, his only recorded appearance outside of Run the Jewels in over a decade.

[32][33] The companion album featured guests include Elucid (Billy Woods' partner from Armand Hammer), Company Flow's Bigg Jus, Dreamcrusher, LaTasha N. Nevada Diggs, Matana Roberts, Nakama., Desde, Rena Anakwe, Marcus, Lord Kayso, Harlem Boog, DJ Haram, Dis Fig, maassai, amani, No Land, with additional field recordings courtesy of Taja Cheek (L'Rain) and Ara Kim, with Franklin James Fisher of Algiers hosting.

The all-star lineup of special guests included amani, Big Rube, Billy Woods, DeForrest Brown Jr., Desde, Dreamcrusher, Elucid, Fatboi Sharif, King Vision Ultra, Latoya Kent, maassai, Mark Cisneros, and Patrick Shiroishi.