Drain announce new album ‘…Is Your Friend’ (new video & exclusive vinyl)

Santa Cruz hardcore band Drain have announced their third album, …Is Your Friend, due November 7 via Epitaph. We’ve got an exclusive “patina rust splash” vinyl variant up for pre-order now in the BV shop, limited to 500. Here’s a mock-up:

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The album was produced by Jon Markson, who mixed Drain’s previous album Living Proof, and it was fully tracked live with no metronome. Vocalist Sammy Ciaramitaro says the album title is a reference to the band’s founding ethos, the thing that’s made them so approachable and widely-appealing despite having some gut-punchingly heavy songs: “DRAIN is your friend, DRAIN was your friend, DRAIN will forever be your friend.”

The first single is “Nights Like These,” a trademark groove-based Drain anthem inspired by the highs of a great hardcore show that Drain get to experience every night on tour. Sammy says:

“Over the last decade of doing DRAIN, I’ve been able to see the world, meet incredible people, experience all sorts of incredible highs and even a couple of lows – but most importantly, I got to do all of those things with my best friends. No matter how much we accomplish and how big we grow – we are still just a couple of friends who get to play music together, make memories all over the world, and we are SO aware of how lucky we are to do it. THAT is what “Nights Like These” is about.

The Derek Rathbun-directed video starts off with footage of a typically-wild Drain show, and then, after an intermission in which Sammy says, “Man, I could do this to forever,” the video fast-forwards to 2055 and depicts Drain doing what they do now, 30 years older, with the members’ actual fathers and uncles portraying them. Sammy continues:

When we were coming up with ideas for this video, I thought it would be so cool to try and make us look old and play a show as seniors. We could have gone the route of using make-up and practical effects, but then it clicked in my brain…I am going to look just like my dad when I get old – I should just use him.

The fact that we got to share this special night with the people who shaped us to be the men we are today – means SO much to all of us. I hope that everyone enjoys watching it as much as we all enjoyed getting to make it happen. Shout out to Stu, Frankie, and Donny!

Drain are set to begin short a tour at Long Island’s Amityville Music Hall on Tuesday (6/10) with All Under Heaven, Victory Garden, and Deadshot; and that surrounds their appearance at the DC edition of Warped Tour. They also play the Long Beach and Orlando editions, as well as Furnace Fest, Louder Than Life, New England Metal & Hardcore Festival, and more.

Surrounding the fall festivals, Drain are opening Kublai Khan TX‘s tour, alongside Gideon and Guilt Trip, and that includes a show at NJ’s Starland Ballroom on September 21. All dates are listed below.

Pick up our exclusive vinyl variant of Drain’s new album here.

Tracklist
1. Stealing Happiness From Tomorrow
2. Living In A Memory
3. Scared Of Everything And Nothing
4. Nothing But Love
5. Can’t Be Bothered
6. Loudest In The Room
7. Nights Like These
8. Who’s Having Fun?
9. Darkest Days
10. Until Next Time

Drain — 2025 Tour Dates
June 10 – Amityville, NY – Amityville Music Hall
June 11 – Syracuse, NY – The Song & Dance
June 13 – Reading, PA – Reverb
June 14-15 – Washington, DC – Warped Tour
June 16 – Richmond, VA – The Warehouse
June 17 – Asheville, NC – Eulogy
June 19 – Baltimore, MD – Ottobar
July 18 – Mansfield, OH – Inkcarceration Fest
July 26-27 – Long Beach, CA – Warped Tour

with Kublai Khan TX:
9/18 Louisville, KY Louder Than Life
9/20 Worcester, MA New England Metal & Hardcore Festival
9/21 Sayreville, NJ Starland Ballroom
9/23 Buffalo, NY Buffalo Riverworks
9/24 Silver Spring, MD The Fillmore
9/28 Philadelphia, PA Franklin Music Hall
9/30 Chicago, IL The Salt Shed
10/1 Detroit, MI The Fillmore Detroit
10/3 Birmingham, AL Furnace Fest
10/4 Charlotte, NC The Fillmore Charlotte
10/5 N. Myrtle Beach, SC House of Blues
10/7 Atlanta, GA The Eastern
10/8 St. Petersburg, FL Jannus Live
10/10 San Antonio, TX Vibes Event Center
10/11 Houston, TX White Oak Music Hall
10/12 Dallas, TX The Factory in Deep Ellum
10/14 Kansas City, MO Uptown Theater
10/15 Denver, CO The Fillmore Auditorium
10/16 Albuquerque, NM Sunshine Theater
10/17 Tempe, AZ The Marquee
10/20 Salt Lake City, UT Rockwell at The Complex
10/21 Boise, ID Knitting Factory
10/23 Sacramento, CA Ace of Spades
10/24 San Jose, CA San Jose Civic
10/26 Los Angeles, CA Hollywood Palladium

Nov. 15-16 – Orlando, FL – Warped Tour

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