{"title":"Drain","description":null,"products":[{"product_id":"drain-living-proof","title":"Drain - Living Proof","description":"\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv id=\"aec-body\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"container\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv id=\"aec-main\" class=\"col-md-10\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"aec-product-container\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv id=\"aec-product-description\" class=\"col-md-12 col-sm-12 col-xs-12\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"aec-desc-review collapse\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"col-md-12 col-sm-12 col-xs-12\" id=\"aec-product-description\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"aec-desc-review collapse\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eDrain - the Santa Cruz, CA based hardcore band, whose energetic live shows have propelled them to peak underground popularity (during a global pandemic) and they are ready to break wide open in 2023.\u003c\/p\u003e\nLIVING PROOF is the band's Epitaph Records debut and follow up to their 2020 breakout release, California Cursed. The new album is a testament to the hard work and heartfelt ethos that's at the center of Drain's good-time psyche. There are a couple surprises on the album. Rapper Shakewell appears on the track, \"Intermission\". There's also a cover of \"Good, Good Things,\" a nearly four-decade old melodic punk carol by the Descendents: slam-pit forebearers to Drain if there ever were any. \"It's crazy because the song's been out like forty years, but lyrically it's a Drain song!\" exclaims vocalist Sam Ciaramitaro. \"It just hits on everything that I love, that I'm about.\"\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003eWhat Sammy's about is plenty wholesome. \"I hope with this record that when someone hears it, it gives them hope,\" beams. \"If we were able to get through the tough times, anyone can. I can't wait to play these songs and hear a room full of people singing back to us. We're what the title says, the Living Proof.\"\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003eProduced by longtime friend and multi-instrumentalist Taylor Young (God's Hate, Suicide Silence), then mixed by John Markson (Drug Church, Koyo), this is hardcore for everybody. \"As the band gets bigger, I try and keep that feeling alive,\" says the smiling singer. \"Every night I set up the merch and run it until it's time to play. I want to be the guy that everyone says hello to. 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The new album is a testament to the hard work and heartfelt ethos that's at the center of Drain's good-time psyche. There are a couple surprises on the album. Rapper Shakewell appears on the track, \"Intermission\". There's also a cover of \"Good, Good Things,\" a nearly four-decade old melodic punk carol by the Descendents: slam-pit forebearers to Drain if there ever were any. \"It's crazy because the song's been out like forty years, but lyrically it's a Drain song!\" exclaims vocalist Sam Ciaramitaro. \"It just hits on everything that I love, that I'm about.\"\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003eWhat Sammy's about is plenty wholesome. \"I hope with this record that when someone hears it, it gives them hope,\" beams. \"If we were able to get through the tough times, anyone can. I can't wait to play these songs and hear a room full of people singing back to us. We're what the title says, the Living Proof.\"\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003eProduced by longtime friend and multi-instrumentalist Taylor Young (God's Hate, Suicide Silence), then mixed by John Markson (Drug Church, Koyo), this is hardcore for everybody. \"As the band gets bigger, I try and keep that feeling alive,\" says the smiling singer. \"Every night I set up the merch and run it until it's time to play. I want to be the guy that everyone says hello to. 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Led by bassist and singer Amber Star-Goers, the line-up includes synthesist and rhythm programmer Adam Jones (of S U R V I V E), and guitarist and engineer Justin Star-Goers channeling their heaviest and most haunted currents into damaged anthems of wounded grandeur.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eDespite TROLLER’s electronic underpinning, Drain heaves with the texture and turmoil of live performance. Standouts “Out Back” and “Rat Nest” drift shadowy and liminal, like underworld torch songs, while “Lust In Us” and the title track tilt and teeter in downward purgatories of smeared synth, screwed drum machinery, and fractured guitar. Amber Star-Goers wields her voice like a sacred weapon, alternately cursed, ethereal, erotic, and demonic. Instrumentally, Jones cites an array of techniques to achieve their ceremonial sound – from chromatic scales to shifting keys to the sculpted low end of rap production – but it’s the integration of so many disparate composites that elevates the group to a tier unto themselves.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eDrain is both the sound of end times, and new beginnings. 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For anyone that's seen the Santa Cruz hardcore firebrands live, there's no mistaking that fact. Drain isn't just a good time as Sammy presides over the chaos of stage diving bodies and mic-grabbing frontline; it's a party-and everyone is invited. (Dolphin shorts and boogie boards are optional but encouraged.) \"The vibe of it is, enthusiastic, hectic,\" says the vocalist. \"Five people deep singing and stagediving, then kids going berserk behind that. It's a great vibe and I think people pick up on that.\" That, in a nutshell is DRAIN. The trio inject a serious dose of relatability-not to mention catchiness-into hardcore's penchant for toughness and brutality on their new Epitaph album, \"... IS YOUR FRIEND\". Ciaramitaro's desperate, snotty howl rides roughshod over thrash-leaning riffage as rhythms bounce in a big way. 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