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Inclination release two new songs ‘Thoughts And Prayers’ and ‘A Decision’

INCLINATION have released two brand new songs!

The two new songs, titled Thoughts And Prayers and A Decision, is the brand new double single from the Louisville-based straight edge hardcore band. The new songs were recorded by Andy Nelson at Bricktop Recording [FOUNDATION, WEEKEND NACHOS, JESUS PEICE] and A Decision features guest appearances from Ryan Savitski of ONE STEP CLOSER and Russell Bussey of MAGNITUDE.

Speaking about the two new songs, vocalist Tyler Short says, I wrote Thoughts And Prayers because I was sick of watching the people who have been elected to power in this country more or less stand idly by as the community I live in, as well as countless others, are ripped apart by a drug epidemic. The fact that the majority of these individuals are in the pocket of the pharmaceutical companies that helped push these drugs on people who were not clearly informed of the risk all but guarantees that no substantive change would or could be made. Instead, they take to the complicit media and offer thoughts and prayers. Thoughts and prayers can’t fix the backbreaking labor or economic anxiety that hangs around the working classes neck 52 weeks a year but as long as healthcare is allowed to run as a for-profit enterprise those existential problems have no incentivised solution. So we will be patronised by our leaders and divided amongst each other while they attempt to convince us that it’s our fault for ending up here and it won’t matter how many of us die in the pursuit of the almighty dollar.

A Decision is a look at the feeling of finding straight edge at the age I did, when I still really didn’t know who I was, and deciding to identify with the movement. That’s what straight edge is to me, it’s a movement towards something. I think that ‘something’ varies depending on who you are talking to and I wanted to venture out and ask that question of a couple of our contemporaries. I reached out to Russ from MAGNITUDE and Ryan from ONE STEP CLOSER and asked them if they’d be a part of the song and help me write it by giving their unique perspective and voice to what it means to make that decision. Straight edge has shaped my life and I think there is value to everyone’s individual journeys toward this collective idea.”

Watch the official music video for Thoughts And Prayers here: 

Listen to A Decision here: 

For more information on INCLINATION like their official page on Facebook.

James Weaver

Editor-in-Chief and Founder of Distorted Sound Magazine; established in 2015. Reporting on riffs since 2012.