COMEBACK KID Release New Single “Crossed” Featuring GOJIRA’s Joe Duplantier!

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RELEASE NEW SINGLE “CROSSED” FEATURING GOJIRA’S JOE DUPLANTIER
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WEST COAST TOUR WITH NO WARNING KICKS OFF THIS TUESDAY, DECEMBER 6TH IN LAS VEGAS!

PRE-ORDER HEAVY STEPS HERE

Photo Credit: Avrinder Dhillon

“This song is direct and to the point about staying in reality and warns of the elements that could bring us further into darkness.”
Andrew Neufeld

Today, COMEBACK KID has revealed a new single and video, “Crossed,” featuring guest vocals from Gojira’s Joe Duplantier. Alongside the riff-heavy first single “No Easy Way Out” and the tone-setting dynamic title track (“Heavy Steps”), “Crossed” will appear on COMEBACK KID’s anticipated seventh studio album, Heavy Steps which is set for release on January 21, 2022 via Nuclear Blast Records.

Vocalist Andrew Neufeld comments, “Crossed is a no-frills metallic hardcore track. Lyrically it deals with someone in my life that seemed so far gone and I had to watch them dig themselves further and further into a low and unrealistic place. ‘Crossed into the void’ so to say. We enlisted Joe from GOJIRA to represent somewhat of an overlord menacing presence in the song. An overshadowing power via his blood-curdling scream. This song is direct and to the point about staying in reality and warns of the elements that could bring us further into darkness.”

Comeback Kid fighting against outside pressures and personal demons

Directed by Daniel Prieß and Max Maltais and filmed in Quebec, the video for “Crossed” is a performance-style video that sees members of the band fighting against outside pressures and personal demons until they fall into what is visually depicted as “the void”. A true hybrid collaboration that ignited a lot of inspiration and out-of-the-box imagination, the video involved green screening in drummer Loren Legare from Vancouver when he was unable to attend the shoot in Quebec and utilizing a special FX team and editing team in Germany.

“It was wild how this song and video all came together,” Neufeld continues. “So many people from all over the world contributed to this project. On top of the teams used to create the video, the track was recorded in Winnipeg and was mixed in New York by Will Putney. Then Joe [Duplantier] recorded his parts at his house (I believe) in France! This is one of the most fun collaborative projects that I have had the pleasure of working on.”

In celebration of their forthcoming release, COMEBACK KID has recently partnered with Fanaply, a platform creating eco-friendly Non-Fungible Token (NFT) for the biggest names in sports, music, and entertainment, to bring fans their first-ever eco-friendly NFT. Starting today, fans can enter a competition to earn points for sharing, following, and more. On December 10^th, 25 of the top point earners will win the NFT. Check it out here: https://bit.ly/3GbNfLs

This Tuesday, December 6th, COMEBACK KID will kick off their West Coast 2021 tour with NO WARNING in Las Vegas. The 9-date trek will include performances in San Diego and Los Angeles’ For The Children Festival before concluding in Seattle on December 16th! Joining the tour as support are ZULU and SCOWL Tickets on sale NOW

West Coast Tour with NO WARNING, ZULU, & SCOWL:
12/06/2021 American Legion Post 8 – Las Vegas, NV
12/07/2021 Valley Bar – Phoenix, AZ
12/08/2021 Soda Bar – San Diego, CA
12/09/2021 Chain Reaction – Anaheim, CA
12/11/2021 For The Children @ Echoplex – Los Angeles
12/12/2021 For The Children @ Echoplex – Los Angeles
12/13/2021 The Vets Hall – Santa Cruz, CA
12/15/2021 Dante’s – Portland, OR +
12/16/2021 Vera Project – Seattle, WA +
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WATCH: “Crossed” music video

Heavy Steps, the follow-up to 2017’s critically acclaimed full-length Outsider, sees the hardcore veterans returning to their roots both geographically and musically. Although the members of the band are currently residing on different sides of the country in Vancouver and Toronto, the band decided to write and record their latest effort in the band’s originating city of Winnipeg, Manitoba at Private Ear Recording Studio and once again enlisted the services of producer John Paul Peters (CANCER BATS, PROPAGANDHI) who recorded the band’s debut album Turn It Around. In addition to co-production by Peters, on “Heavy Steps”, COMEBACK KID collaborated with prominent Grammy award-winning mixer and long-time fan of the band Will Putney (KNOCKED LOOSE, EVERY TIME I DIE). Featuring a guest appearance by GOJIRA’s Joe Duplantier, “Heavy Steps” is no longer a prerequisite to realizing COMEBACK KID’s influence on modern punk, but a delivery of pure anthemic chaos, sheer speed, and force. It is a statement of intent.

“It’s about hitting the ground running, not knowing when or where the ground could break from underneath you.” summarizes Neufeld. “It’s heavy steps on thin ice. ‘Heavy Steps’ on hollow ground.”

Kicking off with the pummeling title track that features punishing bass lines, masterful drumming, sludgy guitar riffs, and an infectious singalong chorus, the 11 tracks that is “Heavy Steps” embody all the things that make COMEBACK KID so revered in their genre. It’s fast, fun, beautiful crafted melodic hardcore.

“Heavy Steps” will be available in the following formats:

CD Jewelcase incl. O-Card
White Vinyl (Retail)
Clear/Purple Marbled Vinyl (Mailorder & Selected Shops)

Pre-save/order “Heavy Steps”, here: https://bfan.link/CBK-heavysteps-album.ema

Heavy Steps Track Listing;
01. Heavy Steps
02. No Easy Way Out
03. Face The Fire
04. Crossed ft. Joe Duplantier
05. Everything Relates ft. JJ
06. Dead On The Fence
07. Shadow of Doubt
08. True To Form
09. Inbetween
10. Standstill
11. Menacing Weight

In support of their forthcoming release, COMEBACK KID will be kicking off the year 2022 with dates in the UK and Europe. COMEBACK KID is set to play a handful of shows in Ontario with CANCER BATS and A WILHELM SCREAM in March 2022. Tickets for all dates are available now. For a complete list of tour dates, see below.

COMEBACK KID European Headline Tour 2022
w/ BE WELL, DEVIL IN ME, SCOWL
01/19/2022 Germany Berlin @ Hole44
01/20/2022 Germany Hannover @ Faust
01/21/2022 Germany Bochum @ Matrix
01/22/2022  Germany Karlsruhe @ Weisse Rose
01/23/2022 Netherlands Utrecht @ Tivoli Pandora
01/24/2022  UK Bristol @ Fleece
01/25/2022 UK Birmingham @ Mama Roux
01/26/2022 UK Leeds @ Key Club
01/27/2022 UK Manchester @ Rebellion
01/28/2022 UK London @ The Dome
01/29/2022 Belgium Hasselt @ Muziekodroom
01/30/2022  France Paris @ Gibus
01/31/2022 Switzerland Wil @ Gare De Lion
02/01/2022 Italy Milan @ Circolo Magnoilia
02/02/2022 Germany Munich @ Backstage
02/03/2022 Czech Rep Prague @ Futurum
02/04/2022  Germany Leipzig @ Conne Island

Upcoming Canadian Tour Dates
03/17/2022 LONDON, ON @ RUM RUNNERS ^
03/18/2022 TORONTO, ON @ PHOENIX CONCERT THEATRE ^
03/19/2022 OTTAWA, ON @ THE BRASS MONKEY ^
03/20/2022 KINGSTON, ON @ MANSION ^
04/15/2022 WINNIPEG, MB – PARK THEATRE #
04/16/2022 REGINA, SK – THE EXCHANGE #
04/17/2022 SASKATOON, SK – AMIGOS #
04/18/2022 GRANDE PRAIRIE, AB – BETTER THAN FRED’S #
04/22/2022 VANCOUVER, BC – RICKSHAW THEATRE *
04/23/2022 VICTORIA, BC – CAPITAL BALLROOM *
04/24/2022 WHISTLER, BC – GARFINKEL’S *
04/26/2022 NELSON, BC – THE ROYAL *
04/27/2022 FERNIE, BC – NORTHERN BAR & STAGE *
04/28/2022 RED DEER, AB – BO’S BAR *
04/29/2022 EDMONTON, AB – STARLITE ROOM *
04/30/2022 CALGARY, AB – DICKENS *
^ w/Cancer Bats & A Wilhelm Scream
# w/ Cancer Bats
* w/ Cancer Bats & Misery Signals

The tour remains subject to the current global situation

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About COMEBACK KID

Over the last twenty years, COMEBACK KID has 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, and breaking into the mainstream with 2005’s career-defining, Wake The Dead, COMEBACK KID broke boundaries and both literally and musically stormed across new terrains, projecting the once underground genre on a globally touring scale alongside the likes of then Victory Records label mates, EARTH CRISIS, TERROR and REFUSED.

“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, Figure Four), Stu Ross (guitar, Misery Signals), Chase Brenneman (bass, Living With Lions), and Loren Legare (drums, Living With Lions). “We don’t want to be limited in any sense and prefer to work on our own terms.”

Now with their seventh record on the horizon, the band are defining what it means to be both an integral, yet impressive units within both the foundation and edges of punk..