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Comeback Kid and No Warning


with Higher Power and Premonition
Ages 16+ Admitted

$20 advance

Band Details

Comeback Kidcomeback-kid.com
No Warningnowarning.com

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COMEBACK KID

Complacency kills creativity, and nobody seems to know that better than Comeback Kid.
Outsider, the long-running hardcore outfit’s latest LP, showcases that in spades. Capturing the all-out intensity of the band’s riotous live shows, it’s as urgent and unrelenting as anything they’ve done in the past. And yet while many of their peers consider sonic evolution an enemy of their scene, Comeback Kid has built a career on progression and evolution, continually expanding their now-signature sound while never compromising its integrity.
“We’re a hardcore band, but we don’t feel like we belong to any particular sect of that,” states frontman Andrew Neufeld, speaking on behalf of bandmates Jeremy Hiebert (guitar), Stu Ross (guitar), Ron Friesen (bass), and Loren Legare (drums). “We don’t want to be limited in any sense, and prefer to work on our own terms.”
Indeed, over the course of their career, they’ve covered a lot of territory – both musically and literally.
Comeback Kid first united in 2000 and dropped their debut LP, Turn It Around, in 2003. Its follow-up, 2005’s Wake the Dead, further cemented the band’s foundation of energetic, punk-propelled hardcore. With the departure of original vocalist Scott Wade, Neufeld moved from guitar to lead vocals ahead of 2007’s Broadcasting... More recent releases like Symptoms + Cures and 2014’s Die Knowing find the band incorporating a wider array of elements and influences into their combustible sonic concoction.
Outsider – Comeback Kid’s sixth full-length and first on the iconic Nuclear Blast Records (New Damage Records in Canada) – represents the pinnacle of that progress to date, simultaneously pushing new boundaries while returning to the in-your-face immediacy of their first releases.
“It’s always been about refining what we do and incorporating new things,” Neufeld affirms. “This time around, we were really focused on songs that we knew would connect from the stage.”
To that point, “Surrender Control” is essentially a clinic in inciting a riotous moshpit with an anthemic chorus while “Absolute” injects some thrash metal into more familiar CBK staples of call-and-response gang vocals and a punishing outro breakdown. They’re as furious as anything in the band’s back catalogue and effective foils to more ambitious offerings like “Hell of a Scene,” which combines blazing blast beats in the verses with an infections melodic hardcore chorus, and the more hard rock-centric “Consumed the Vision.”
Neufeld’s voice is as powerful and piercing as ever while also pushing into new, often more melodic territory. That’s fitting considering the wide breadth of topics he tackles in his lyrics, from the plight of innovative thinkers to a world ripe with distractions from meaningful interactions to wrestling with personal demons, however they might materialize.
Of course, these 13 tracks will be volatile in the live environment. As longtime road warriors who are strangers to nowhere, Comeback Kid is sure to continue conquering new corners of the world. “We’ve always prided ourselves on trying to reach as many places as possible,” Neufeld offers, and their still-swelling crowds everywhere from Southeast Asia to South America to mainland Europe are proof of that. They’ve performed at virtually every major heavy music festival and shared the stage with a who’s who of their peers across virtually every genre that seeps into their ever-evolving sound.
After six LPs, an EP, two live albums, and countless shows over the course of 15-plus years, Comeback Kid still takes pride in pushing sonic boundaries and bringing their riotous live show across new borders.
“We still feel lucky to be a part of this,” Neufeld says assuredly. “It’s bigger than us and we have no intentions of slowing down or standing still.”

NO WARNING

Ben Cook--Vocals
Matt DeLong--Guitars
Jordan Posner--Guitars
Ryan Gavel--Bass
Jesse Labovitz--Drums

Suffer, Survive, the debut release on Machine Shop Recordings from the fast-rising Toronto band No Warning, puts a whole new slant on hardcore with a sound that mixes melody with mayhem.

Equal parts punk, hardcore and a secret songwriting ingredient all their own, Suffer, Survive features such No Warning originals as "Breeding Insanity," "Dirtier Than The Next," "Hopeless Case," "Back To Life" and "Bad Timing" and is a whole new musical direction from a band with a big future.

That future began in the late '90's when a fifteen year-old guitarist named Matt DeLong started trolling his neighborhood for a singer to join his quest for straight up, pissed off hardcore, the way it should be played. He found this in junior high school buddy, Ben Cook. "I'd been in some punk bands," Cook recalls, "but I'd never done any hardcore before. I said 'Fuck it, Delong, we're doing this and we're gonna be the fuckin best".

At first, the hometown crowd didn't catch on to the explosive potential of No Warning, but by the time the young band added local guitarist Jordan Posner to the line-up they had become local contenders. It was only a matter of time before they recorded their first 7" EP for a ny based Independent label on a five hundred dollar budget and later recruited Zach Amster on bass and Junkyard Jesse on drums. The record attracted attention and No Warning hit the road, touring with such hardcore staples as Bane, Reach the Sky, Sick of it All and The Cro-Mags.

In 2002, No Warning released Ill Blood their first full-length album and backed it up with some touring, gaining a solid fan base in the process. But for all the buzz, the band was already moving in new musical directions. "We got fuckin' bored. Bored of everything. We asked ourselves, 'What else is there?'" says Cook. "We were fans of melodic music, but we could never find a way to put it into what we were doing and yet still keep the aggression and emotion high. We kept hearing all these bands tying to do the same thing, screaming and singing in their songs and it just all straight up suckedŠ calling it screamo, or hardcore... it really doesn't matterŠ I wanted to beat my head through a wall every time I heard most of these bands. We knew we could do the hardcore and melody thing RIGHT. " It wasn't until the group took a year off the road to focus on forging their new sound that they were finally able to capture the music they were hearing in their heads.

A four song demo brought the group to the new L.A-based indie, Machine Shop Recordings and they quickly got down to business with a studio schedule that took them from Los Angeles to Toronto and back again over the next year.

The result is Suffer, Survive, a collection of No Warning originals that make a rock solid connection between full-on hardcore and fully melodic songwriting. With a new recording under their belt and summer treks on both the Vans Warped Tour '04 and The Projekt Revolution Tour, No Warning is ready to rewrite the musical rules. "It does feel a little like we're starting from scratch in a way," admits Cook. "But we've never really changed the way we make music. That's not negotiable."

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