DRAIN (USA) New Zealand Shows Announced with One Step Closer

Santa Cruz hardcore punk / aggro crossover thrashers DRAIN will soon be letting rip right here in Aotearoa, announcing today headline dates for Auckland and Wellington. The genre-shredding team of Sammy Ciaramitaro, Cody Chavez and Tim Flegal found breakout fame with their 2020 debut long player California Cursed via Revelation Records, making the jump to the esteemed Epitaph Records roster with their second and latest record LIVING PROOF — hailed by Kerrang! with a gushing 5/5 and ranked number one best hardcore album of 2023 by Revolver — paying homage to their Cal-punk roots with a notably energising cover of 'Good Good Things' by Descendents. Famously on fire live, don't miss DRAIN with heavy-hitting fellow countrymen One Step Closer next month...

DRAIN (USA) NZ Tour
with One Step Closer (USA) + more

Friday 14th March - San Fran, Wellington
Saturday 15th March - Neck of the Woods, Auckland*

*Auckland tickets on sale HERE via UTR

Smash play on 'Evil Finds Light' from their 2023 album LIVING PROOF...

Check out DRAIN's cover of Descendents' classic 'Good Good Things'...

Experience 'Leap Years' from One Step Closer's 2024 album All You Embrace...

Press release:

Beloved California hardcore party-starters DRAIN, supported by special guests ONE STEP CLOSER will head to the Sunshine Coast and Hobart in Australia, and Wellington and Auckland in New Zealand this March surrounding the festival dates.

Emerging from the coastal settings of Santa Cruz in 2014, DRAIN aren't merely a band; they're a full-blown experience. With a reputation for euphoric chaos and nothing but good vibes, DRAIN are eternally here for a good time, and have also been repeatedly praised for helping to spearhead the recent renaissance of American hardcore music.

Cementing their place at the hardcore forefront with their sophomore album, All You Embrace, earlier this year, ONE STEP CLOSER also wowed Australian audiences back in 2023 for their debut down under performances alongside their unique and insatiable concoction of indie rock, post hardcore and shoegaze that has also seen them dazzle alongside Four Year Strong, Koyo, Real Friends and Knuckle Puck.