American hardcore punk band, Rotting Out, is releasing their new single “Stones”. The single comes off of the band’s forthcoming full-length album, “Ronin”, which will be out on April 10th via Pure Noise Records. “Stones” follows the release of their singles, “Reaper” and “Unforgiven”.
“‘Stones’ is a very aggressive and angry song. I started going to shows at a very young age. And in the place where I’m from, there’s a very ghetto and violent atmosphere. In the projects of Los Angeles, there’s a lot of gang activity, drug use, prostitution, violence, domestic abuse, and child abuse. This is what I was surrounded with. When I got into hardcore, it was cool because it didn’t involve all of that or glorify it”, shares lead vocalist Walter Delgado.
“Then, there was a point where I started to notice that certain bands or certain people in the hardcore scene adopted the style of being from the ghetto. They started glorifying the grim and the dirt. Just negative things that shouldn’t be glorified to begin with from ghettos when these people were not from there. […]This isn’t pretty and it’s not meant to be put on a pedestal. It’s just a matter of the situation, and people are born into this situation unwillingly. It’s a big fuck you to everyone who tried to adopt this ‘cool swag ghetto child’ vibe when they themselves are from suburbia”.
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