Photo Credit: Gabe Becerra
Stray From The Path have released a video for their latest single III, taken from their upcoming album Euthanasia.
“Stray has always used our songs as an outlet to speak against oppression,” the band comments. “It’s been close to 10 years, and now our third instalment of the Badge and a Bullet series entitled III has the same target. Policing in the United States has always been rooted in racism, hate and violence. Public funding for police departments has skyrocketed since the 1980s. The US now spends more than twice as much on police as it does social welfare programs. Many major cities spend over a third of their budgets on police. Despite the hundreds of billions of federal, state & local money poured into police departments & the corrections industry every year, there is little oversight. The outcomes have been f****** horse s**t.”
“Over 1,000 people are killed every year by the police but despite comprising only 13% of the population, nearly half of all people killed by police are Black. Less than 1% of police officers who kill someone on the job are prosecuted.
“To be perfectly clear: there is no crime in this country where the punishment is execution on the spot extrajudicially by a cop.
“The idea of justice in this country is a f****** joke.
“The only protecting and serving the police do in this country is protecting the wealthy, the powerful and capitalist interests while subjugating the marginalised and the working class.”
Euthanasia is due for release on 9th September 2022 via UNFD, available to pre-save HERE or pre-order HERE.
Stray From The Path will tour with Beartooth and Motionless In White across Europe and UK in early 2023. See them live at one of the following dates:
March 2023
Thu 9th – FRANKFURT, DE – Jahrhunderthalle
Fri 10th – ZURICH, CH – Volkhaus
Sat 11th – LUXEMBOURG, LU – Den Atelier
Sun 12th – PARIS, FR – Le Cabaret Sauvage
Tue 14th – GLASGOW, UK – Barrowland Ballroom
Fri 17th – MANCHESTER, UK – Victoria Warehouse
Sat 18th – BIRMINGHAM, UK – O2 Academy Birmingham
Sun 19th – LONDON, UK – O2 Academy Brixton
Tue 21st – TILBURG, NL – 013
Thu 23rd – COLOGNE, DE – Palladium
Fri 24th – MUNICH, DE – Zenith
Sat 25th – VIENNA, AT – Gasometer
Tue 28th – BRUSSELS, BE – Ancienne Belgique
Wed 29th – STUTTGART, DE – Porsche Arena
Thu 30th – HAMBURG, DE – Sporthalle
Fri 31st – LEIPZIG, DE – Hause Auensee
April 2023
Sat 1st – BERLIN, DE – Columbiahalle
