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Santa Cruz hardcore and metal institution Drain are gearing up to release their highly anticipated new album … Is Your Friend and today, they return with a new single and video, “Stealing Happiness From Tomorrow.” The track is a blistering four minutes, blending rapid-fire hardcore with big, groovy metal breakdowns and anthemic, sing-along shouts that demand a live setting. Its accompanying video shows the band on the road, where they spend most of their time, without their founding drummer Tim Flegal. The drummer who started the band 11 years ago has never missed a show but has had to sit the last shows out as he fights cancer at home. The song follows “Nights Like These” the video for which envisions the band still going at it in the year 2055 (using the band’s dads and uncles as older Drain). 

With their third full-length album and second for Epitaph Records, …Is Your Friend, Drain had two primary goals in mind: to capture their quintessential live essence on recording, and to write new songs that’ll make their next shows even crazier. Their previous albums were written before Drain were on the road all year, and they spent the last few hundred nights onstage making note of which songs their fans respond best to. …Is Your Friend is designed to maximize their audience’s shit-losing abilities. Its 10-song tracklist includes the heaviest mosh parts, the catchiest choruses, the tastiest thrash riffs, and the most scream-able lyrics Drain have ever written. Producer Jon Markson (The Story So Far, Drug Church, One Step Closer) tracked the whole album live -- 100% real-time drums, no metronome, no programmed bullshit. It sounds the way Drain were always meant to: crisp, serrated, animated.