Today, one of the biggest names in modern hardcore, Comeback Kid announce an Australian Tour for January 2023. The Canadian legends will be bringing Santa Cruz hardcore band Drain to Australia for the very first time. Drain recently signed to iconic record label Epitaph Records and will have a new album sometime in 2023. Comeback Kid released their seventh studio LP Heavy Steps earlier this year via Nuclear Blast to critical acclaim with Kerrang giving the album 4/5 and saying “Heavy Steps sounds like lyrically it’s carrying a mix of existential score settling, cries for help and pleas for solidarity”
In the true spirit of hardcore there will be no barriers at any of the shows. This sets the scene for crowd participation to be at an all time high ensuring that this will be one of the craziest hardcore tours of 2023. Full tour details below.
“Australia, we’re excited to be returning to your shores in January! 3 years after our New Year’s 2020 Aussie shows we finally have the opportunity to come overseas and bring one of HC’s most exciting bands, DRAIN with us for their first time ever down under! I’ve been assured that barricades won’t be in play and we are expecting to pop off ’23 with a bang and usher in a new year for the Australian punk and hardcore scene. See you all soon! ” Andrew Neufeld – Comeback Kid
COMEBACK KID
SUMMER AUSTRALIAN TOUR 2023
WITH VERY SPECIAL GUESTS
DRAIN
TOUR DATES:
Thu 19 Jan 2023: The Brightside, Brisbane 18+
Fri 20 Jan 2023: Newcastle Hotel, Newcastle 18+
Sat 21 Jan 2023: Crowbar, Sydney 18+
Sun 22 Jan 2023: Tattersalls Hotel, Penrith 18+
Tue 24 Jan 2023: UC Hub, Canberra 18+
Wed 25 Jan 2023: Colonial Hotel, Melbourne 18+
Fri 27 Jan 2023: Jive Bar, Adelaide 18+
Sat 28 Jan 2023: Amplifier Bar, Perth 18+
Tour Pre-Sale: Tuesday 22 November @ 5pm local time
Tour On-Sale: Thursday 24 November @ 10am local time
Tickets available HERE
For more info destroyalllines.com.au
ABOUT COMEBACK KID
Over the last twenty years, COMEBACK KID have been hailed as one of the major counterparts when it has come to shaping and pioneering both the Canadian and international modern punk and hardcore sound and scene alike.
Having formed in Winnipeg, before later releasing their 2002 demo, and the acclaimed, Turn It Around in 2003, the five piece have undoubtedly over the years been able to balance a DIY ethos and dependability, with that of a humanitarian ethos, and genre defining musicianship which has broken down the boundaries of hardcore, and transcended the genre onto a global stage. Breaking into the mainstream with their 2005 career defining record, Wake The Dead, and standing strong in the face of adversity and change ever since, the band have become a force to be reckoned with when it comes to their influence impacting both the present and future of the once underground genre.
“We’re a hardcore band, but we don’t feel like we belong to any particular sect of that,” states Neufeld alongside band members, Jeremy Hiebert (guitar), Stu Ross (guitar), Chase Brenneman (bass), and Loren Legare (drums). “We don’t want to be limited in any sense and prefer to work on our own terms.”
Now with their seventh record HEAVY STEPS released, the band are defining what it means to be both an integral, and volatile leader amongst a now globally recognised and distinguished genre.
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ABOUT DRAIN
Since their formation in 2014, Drain has released two EPs and one full-length record; Over Thinking (2016), Time Enough at Last (2017), and their debut record California Cursed (2020). The band takes heavy influence from thrash, and ’80s to ’90s hardcore mixed with a modern influence.
In 2021 Drain signed to legendary California punk label Epitaph Records. A new studio album will be released sometime in 2023.
Drain is Sammy Ciaramitaro (vocals), Cody Chavez (guitar), Mike Durrett (bass) and Tim Flegal (drums).
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