The LANDMVRKS adventure first started in 2014, originally under the name ‘Coldsight’ for the first few years.

Florent Salfati and Nicolas Soriano founded the project with effort and determination, and started looking for motivated and experienced musicians. This motivation would be the key to then drive the band towards creating a completely unique universe

At first Florent Salfati played the guitar – back then he was the singer for Hate In Front. The band struggled to find a singer that would fit the band’s universe. The lineup was almost complete after Rudy Purkart (bass) and Thomas Lebreton (Guitar) joined the band.

In 2014, after testing various singers without success, the band decided that Florent should become the frontman.

At the time, they also asked their mate Nicolas Exposito (ex Where Eagles Dare, Straighten Things Out) to take the position for the vacant guitarist.

The final lineup was there, and that is when the band’s name changed from Coldsight to LANDMVRKS.

For two years, the band composed songs, recorded and started playing local shows by sharing the bill with bands such as First Blood, More Than Life and little by little, LANDMVRKS started making a name for themselves in the French metalcore scene.

During this time, the band releases a few singles and videos to help build up their fan base.

In May 2016, LANDMVRKS released their first album HOLLOW entirely produced by Florent Salfati and Nicolas Exposito. They decided to release this album independently, and went touring on the roads of Europe to showcase this opus.

They seduced their public with a modern metalcore style with hardcore riffs and catchy choruses. This album helped them play big festivals such as Hellfest in 2016 or Longlive Rockfest, and they managed to strengthen their reputation.

In 2018 the band signed a contract with Arising Empire records for their second opus. The second album has a more mature approach and the band delivers a richer result, with more definition and definitely take their influences in hardcore and 90s punk-rock.

The band comments: ‘we are very happy with the result, this album is the fruit of almost 3 years of intense work and we think we managed to get our music where we wanted to take it.’

Fantasy and Scars are the first two singles taken out of this second opus and demonstrate well how the band has managed to build their name and assert its own style.

STRAY FROM THE PATH:

Long Island, NY hardcore heavyweights Stray From The Path are back and they’ve announced their new album, Euthanasia. Due out September 9th via UNFD, Euthanasia is the darkest and heaviest work of the band’s career, drawing on challenging circumstances to create a record that pulls no punches sonically or lyrically.

To mark the announcement, Stray From The Path have shared their vicious new single, „III.“ The track follows early single „Guillotine,“ and utilizes the band’s signature blend of groove-laden guitarwork, intricate-yet-pummeling drums, and socially-conscious lyricism–but now packing an ominously crushing chorus that demonstrates some of the brooding new atmospheric elements present on Euthanasia.

The band discussed the new song, saying: „We’ve always used our songs as an outlet to speak against oppression. It’s been close to 10 years, and now our third installment of the Badge & A Bullet series entitled ‚III‘ has the same target. Policing in the United States has always been rooted in racism, hate & violence. Public funding for police departments has skyrocketed since the 1980s. The US now spends more than twice as much on police as it does social welfare programs. Many major cities spend over a third of their budgets on police. Despite the hundreds of billions of federal, state & local money poured into police departments & the corrections industry every year, there is little oversight. The outcomes have been fucking horseshit.

„Over 1,000 people are killed every year by the police but despite comprising only 13% of the population, nearly half of all people killed by police are Black. Less than 1% of police officers who kill someone on the job are prosecuted. To be perfectly clear: there is no crime in this country where the punishment is execution on the spot extrajudicially by a cop. The idea of justice in this country is a fucking joke. The only protecting and serving the police do in this country is protecting the wealthy, the powerful & capitalist interests while subjugating the marginalized & the working class.“

Stray From The Path have been bringing their charged-up hardcore fury and politically outspoken lyricism to the masses for the better part of two decades, aiming to be the kind of band that can be a gateway to both heavy music and radical ideas. While the long-running group shows no signs of slowing down, Euthanasia was by no means an easy record to make. Stray From The Path found themselves in a fractured state due to the pandemic, an ocean of distance, and even a literal broken back, resulting in an album that reflects the grimmer personal and global circumstances.

Produced/engineered by Will Putney (Knocked Loose, Body Count, Every Time I Die), Euthanasia is clearly the work of a more weathered and visceral era of Stray From The Path–the tremendous riffs and hip-hop-meets-hardcore vocal cadences are still there, but this time they’re accompanied by an apocalyptic mood that draws the listener in and doesn’t let go.