DRAIN "...Is Your Friend" LP + T-Shirt Bundle

This bundle contains:
1x DRAIN "... Is Your Friend" T-Shirt (choose shirt colour!)
1x DRAIN "... Is Your Friend" LP - Fireball

There’s nothing like a Drain show. There’s no other hardcore band like Drain. On their third album, …Is Your Friend, the Santa Cruz band 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. They succeeded. …Is Your Friend sounds the way Drain were always meant to: crisp, serrated, animated.

Drain -- frontman Sammy Ciaramitaro, guitarist Cody Chavez, and drummer Tim Flegal -- formed back in 2014 and cut their teeth in Santa Cruz’s fertile DIY hardcore scene. COVID lockdown couldn’t stop their 2020 debut, California Cursed, from making waves, and their 2023 follow-up, Living Proof, hit the hardcore scene like a Cali beach during hurricane season -- a torrential classic. Since then, Drain have blazed through hundreds of shows worldwide: headlining festivals, taking their friends and heroes on tour, and even playing arenas with Blink-182. 

…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 makes you feel like you’re right there in a Drain pit, dodging fists and catching air while everyone around you screams the words back at the stage.  

“This band is for everybody,” Ciaramitaro says. “We’re not different from you, we’re not going to treat anybody different than us. I’m gonna give the same respect to the kid at his first show as I will to the dude from the really cool band in that city. No one’s too cool at the Drain show.” 

…Is Your Friend is a slogan that Drain have been printing on merch since they were playing to 15 people on a floor. Over the years, Drain have gotten bigger, their crowds have gotten more diverse, and their music has become more eclectic. But Ciaramitaro underscores what this album makes abundantly clear: their founding ethos remains unchanged. “Drain is your friend, Drain was your friend, Drain will forever be your friend.”

Pressing Information:
500 - Fireball (EG Exclusive)