Santa Cruz hardcore band DRAIN have announced their third full-length album, …IS YOUR FRIEND, will be released on 7th November 2025 via Epitaph Records. To mark the announcement, the band has shared the record’s latest single, “Who’s Having Fun?”, accompanied by a music video directed by Ryan Baxley.
The new album aims to capture the band’s renowned live energy, with producer Jon Markson (The Story So Far, Drug Church) tracking the entire record live in the studio. …IS YOUR FRIEND follows their 2023 release, Living Proof, and was written after extensive touring, including arena dates supporting Blink-182, with the goal of creating songs that will maximise crowd reaction.
Speaking on the new single, vocalist Sammy Ciaramitaro explains it’s “summertime music written to be played really loud in the car with your friends and the windows down on a beautiful sunny day.” He adds, “This song can be about whatever you want it to be – but I think when looking for the truth in life, a good rule of thumb is to ask yourself: Who’s Having Fun? Hopefully it’s you.”
Read the official press release in full below:
Santa Cruz hardcore institution DRAIN dropped “Who’s Having Fun?” off their forthcoming new album …IS YOUR FRIEND, arriving 7th November 2025 via Epitaph. “Who’s Having Fun?” is the only track on the album where vocalist Sammy Ciaramitaro sings, backed by plenty of shredding, eventually climaxing into Ciaramitaro’s trademark growls. “‘Who’s Having Fun?’ is summertime music written to be played really loud in the car with your friends and the windows down on a beautiful sunny day,” Ciaramitaro explains. “It’s what happens when you just write music that makes you feel happy and don’t really care about fitting into a box or meeting someone else’s genre criteria. DRAIN is gonna do whatever the hell we want. This was the first song that we wrote for this album – it started out as a pretty barebones punk rock song, but we kept adding little moments and flare and all the sudden we turned it into a badass song that truly encapsulates everything that DRAIN is. This song can be about whatever you want it to be – but I think when looking for the truth in life, a good rule of thumb is to ask yourself: Who’s Having Fun? Hopefully it’s you.”
For the accompanying Ryan Baxley (Green Day, FIDLAR) directed video, the band, who are known lovers of the great outdoors, set up shop in the woods, in front of an incredibly beautiful ocean view with rolling clouds, and on a vespa. The song will be available on limited edition 7 inch vinyl via Flatspot. Click here for more info. The track follows “Stealing Happiness From Tomorrow” and “Nights Like These,” the video for which envisions the band still going at it in the year 2055 (using the band’s dads and uncles as older DRAIN).
With their third full-length album and second for Epitaph Records, …Is Your Friend, Drain had two primary goals in mind: to capture their quintessential live essence on recording, and to write new songs that’ll make their next shows even crazier. Their previous albums were written before Drain were on the road all year, and they spent the last few hundred nights onstage making note of which songs their fans respond best to. …Is Your Friend is designed to maximize their audience’s shit-losing abilities. Its 10-song tracklist includes the heaviest mosh parts, the catchiest choruses, the tastiest thrash riffs, and the most scream-able lyrics Drain have ever written. Producer Jon Markson (The Story So Far, Drug Church, One Step Closer) tracked the whole album live — 100% real-time drums, no metronome, no programmed bullshit. It sounds the way Drain were always meant to: crisp, serrated, animated.
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