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Long Island hardcore crew INCENDIARY return with first new single in years – listen to “Bite The Hook”!

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Long Island hardcore pack INCENDIARY has not released a full-length album in almost six years since their previous work, “Thousand Mile Stare.” However, the band has recently revealed their first single in nearly six years, called “Bite The Hook,” from their upcoming album titled “Change The Way You Think About Pain.”

The album, set to be released on May 26 through Closed Casket Activities, was engineered, mixed, and mastered by Will Putney, with whom the band had previously worked.

Incendiary
Incendiary

The band is: Brendan Garrone, vocals; Brian Audley, guitar; Rob Nobile, guitar; and Dan Lomeli, drums.

Frontman Brendan Garrone expressed his excitement for the release of their fourth LP, stating that as a hardcore band, they are in a unique position to either drastically alter their sound or remain stagnant. However, the band chose to refine their sound, rather than making a drastic change.

Guitarist Brian Audley added that the album will be more aggressive and abrasive in terms of both production and songwriting.

Incendiary

Armed with crushing metallic riffs, instantly both fresh and familiar, Incendiary populate each of their four full-length albums with irresistibly energized rhythms and adrenalized urgency. Change The Way You Think About Pain is their leanest and unapologetically meanest yet. The quartet weaned on the Long Island, New York, hardcore scene have more to say than ever. Sharply biting and insightful lyrics sit atop blunt metalcore in a perfect soundtrack to throw a brick through a window.

Incendiary deliver a sound of its own, mixing classic passion and modern power. Frontman Brendan Garrone, guitarists Brian Audley and Rob Nobile, and drummer Dan Lomeli cite East Coast hardcore heroes like Vision Of Disorder, 108, Indecision, and Glassjaw as part of Incendiary’s formative DNA. Less familiar listeners might liken them to a very heavy Rage Against The Machine.

The band returned to Will Putney of Graphic Nature Audio (Knocked Loose, Every Time I Die, Vein.fm) to engineer, mix and master the new release. Many essential genre bands never made a second album, let alone a fourth. “We are kind of in rare territory being a hardcore band on their fourth LP,” Garrone concedes. “It feels like a milestone. By now, you’re either ‘supposed’ to drastically change your sound or have it be the exact same thing as the record before,” he adds. “We didn’t want to do either of those things. Our focus was on refining the sound that we’ve optimally been working towards rather than any desire to make a huge pivot.” Audley says that in addition to the more focused songwriting on Change The Way You Think About Pain, “we also wanted it to be more aggressive and more abrasive, in terms of songs and production.”

Thematically, Incendiary’s fourth album confronts the hyper-polarization of American society, those who confuse selfishness with freedom, and the lengths we’ll go to in order to avoid pain and maintain comfort. The socio-political pulse found throughout Cost of Living remains, with a deeper exploration of the introspective personal lyrics Garrone started to introduce on Thousand Mile Stare.

“The album is a mix of both the socio-politically driven content and darker, more personalized subjects. The album title is meant to conjure the concept of pain avoidance,” Garrone explains. “Most of the songs have some kind of tie back to the things everyone does to avoid feeling any semblance of pain. ‘Pain avoidance’ is a phrase me and Brian came across and kept in the back of our minds.”

Produced, Engineered, Mixed and Mastered by Will Putney of Graphic Nature Audio. Additional Engineering by Steve Said. Assistance from Ben Johnson

Lyrics

Taken, taken, taken away
Every plan I put in motion, every sacrifice I made
It stays, it stays the same
Now the sun is shining but i’m soaked in rain

Creeping up and filling in
Rot the gut, it never ends
Talk about commitment
Fail to make amends

It never stops, or goes away
I rip the weeds from my garden every day
Infected roots bare poison fruit

It never stops, or goes away
I rip the weeds from my garden every day

Promise me there’s a plan for my escape
Promise me there’s a single shred of faith

Can’t rely on change for changes sake
Can’t rely on a spirit meant to break

It never stops or goes away
I rip the weeds from my garden every day
Infected roots bare poisoned fruit

It never stops or goes away
I rip the weeds from my garden every day

Manic thoughts
Panic states
Reflection showing me everything’s the same

Look into the mirror
Meet the one you blame
Look into the mirror
Meet the one you blame

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