Stray From The Path announce 'Euthanasia' album, share new single
Gabe Becerra
Official press release:
Long Island, NY hardcore heavyweights Stray From The Path are back and they've announced their new album, Euthanasia. Due out September 9th via UNFD, Euthanasia is the darkest and heaviest work of the band's career, drawing on challenging circumstances to create a record that pulls no punches sonically or lyrically.
To mark the announcement, Stray From The Path have shared their vicious new single, "III." The track follows early single "Guillotine," and utilizes the band's signature blend of groove-laden guitarwork, intricate-yet-pummeling drums, and socially-conscious lyricism--but now packing an ominously crushing chorus that demonstrates some of the brooding new atmospheric elements present on Euthanasia.
Listen to "III" via YouTube:
The band discussed the new song, saying: "We've always used our songs as an outlet to speak against oppression. It's been close to 10 years, and now our third installment of the Badge & A Bullet series entitled 'III' has the same target. Policing in the United States has always been rooted in racism, hate & violence. Public funding for police departments has skyrocketed since the 1980s. The US now spends more than twice as much on police as it does social welfare programs. Many major cities spend over a third of their budgets on police. Despite the hundreds of billions of federal, state & local money poured into police departments & the corrections industry every year, there is little oversight. The outcomes have been fucking horseshit.
"Over 1,000 people are killed every year by the police but despite comprising only 13% of the population, nearly half of all people killed by police are Black. Less than 1% of police officers who kill someone on the job are prosecuted. To be perfectly clear: there is no crime in this country where the punishment is execution on the spot extrajudicially by a cop. The idea of justice in this country is a fucking joke. The only protecting and serving the police do in this country is protecting the wealthy, the powerful & capitalist interests while subjugating the marginalized & the working class."
Stray From The Path have been bringing their charged-up hardcore fury and politically outspoken lyricism to the masses for the better part of two decades, aiming to be the kind of band that can be a gateway to both heavy music and radical ideas. While the long-running group shows no signs of slowing down, Euthanasia was by no means an easy record to make. Stray From The Path found themselves in a fractured state due to the pandemic, an ocean of distance, and even a literal broken back, resulting in an album that reflects the grimmer personal and global circumstances.
Produced/engineered by Will Putney (Knocked Loose, Body Count, Every Time I Die), Euthanasia is clearly the work of a more weathered and visceral era of Stray From The Path--the tremendous riffs and hip-hop-meets-hardcore vocal cadences are still there, but this time they're accompanied by an apocalyptic mood that draws the listener in and doesn't let go.
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Post CommentStray from the Path: "To be perfectly clear: there is no crime in this country where the punishment is execution on the spot extrajudicially by a cop." *active shooters sigh a breath of relief*
you wanna talk statistics, then look at national recidivism rates, and then tell me that we aren't soft as f*ck on crime
i mean we're also retarded when it comes to rehabilitation
Nothing screams WHITE PRIVILEGE like being in a band to make money and never working a real job besides hanging sheet rock.
I will comment anonymous and not listen to this
Haylen "NYC" Trammel here, this is not real NYHC
The main riff sounds like Click Click Boom by Saliva. Total joke.
LMAO they literally said "despite comprising only 13% of the population," /pol is stoked
"nearly half of all people killed by police are black". seems like a 50/50 split isn't that racist. what a bunch of woke losers with crappy POD riffs. good thing they only have to rely on gofundme to protect their vans and trailers from getting robbed
This is basically Attila but with George Soros/MSNBC talking points instead of lyrics about thots and partying.
anonymous 3 hours ago LMAO they literally said "despite comprising only 13% of the population," /pol is stoked Heheh, my first thought too. They are so close to becoming honorary /pol.
you wanna talk statistics, then look at national recidivism rates, and then tell me that we aren't soft as f*ck on crime Bro, what?? What the hell do recidivism rates have to do with being "soft on crime?" Our remarkably high recidivism rate highlights the ineffectiveness of incarceration in the US, not that we're soft on crime. The US quite literally imprisons more of its own citizens than ANY country on Earth (e.g., Russia, Iraq, North Korea, China).
Shut the f*ck up idiots! I hope you never need the police, ever! Never call them! Make that promise right now! Dipshits
That guys voice makes laugh. Sounds like a Muppet.
you wanna talk statistics, then look at national recidivism rates, and then tell me that we aren't soft as f*ck on crime Bro, what?? What the hell do recidivism rates have to do with being "soft on crime?" Our remarkably high recidivism rate highlights the ineffectiveness of incarceration in the US, not that we're soft on crime. The US quite literally imprisons more of its own citizens than ANY country on Earth (e.g., Russia, Iraq, North Korea, China). ^^^^^^ Democrats fixed that last year when they defunded the police. Problem solved. Thanks Kamala! In the meantime, f*ck this band of virtue-signaling douchebags. I want to spend $0 on social welfare.
Milk toast Long Island chodes who would shit themselves if dropped deep in the hood somewhere. And by hood I mean around actual BLACK people. Not the "alt" blacks who mosh and wear band hoodies. Gonna be so funny when they do get robbed and but don't call the cops because ACAB.....and uhhh because uhhh blacks...or..something....LOLZ!!!!! f*cking poser idiots.
Yeah 13 percent of population, 52 percent of the crime
"Gonna be so funny when they do get robbed and but don't call the cops because ACAB." - I don't wish them to be robbed but DAMN that would be hilarious
Hard to take their anti establishment bs seriously when they support everything that the corporations and government want you to. As an extreme right winger, I 100% agree that we should abolish the police. ;)
Rage against the path? Or is it stray from the machine?
I remember selling these dudes acid in a church
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These guys are so getting laid when they're old enough to go to college.