Paint It Black

By Katherine Silkatis
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Seven years into their career as a band, Philadelphia hardcore punks Paint It Black are taking a step backward. They’re releasing a 7-inch.


The 7-inch vinyl format, usually featuring two to three songs per side, is a revered part of punk-rock history, but Paint It Black has only an official back catalog of three full-length albums. “I collect records and I own thousands of 7-inches and none by us,” says bassist Andy Nelson. “It’s weird. It’s the ideal format for the music we play and we’ve never released one. In a way, it’s really exciting to be this deep in our career and doing the thing that we should have maybe done first. It’s an issue of staying current and staying true to our roots.”


The band has never strayed too far, continuing to make music under a strict DIY ethic, playing all-ages shows across the globe, writing frenetic and assaultive songs and serving as a positive example to both their listeners and to other bands. Though they decided to abandon the LP format and release two EPs this year instead, their ethos remains the same. 


“It’s exciting to be able to create something that I know firsthand is something real and something genuine and something positive in [a] world with so much plastic and negative,” says vocalist Dan Yemin. “I’m an extremely positive, optimistic person, but there’s so much darkness, and so much of the way I battle that is through the music.”


The first of the two EPs, Amnesiac , will be given away to all who attend the band’s record-release show Friday. Like their previous releases, Amnesiac is both melodic and aggressive, but Nelson says there are a few surprises on the release. 
 “We have our first foray into Discharge-influenced punk on this record, as well as our first foray into ‘90s-style Pixies dynamic and Jawbreaker/Fugazi stuff. That’s also our longest song to date—three-and-a-half minutes. Fucking epic.” ■


Fri., June 12, 7:30pm. $10. With Ceremony + Crime in Stereo + Title Flight + Ardmore Assault. Broad Street Ministries, 315 S. Broad St. 866.468.7619. r5productions.com

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