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Album review: Stray From The Path – Clockworked
Stray From The Path find new levels of unease and outrage on explosive 11th – and final – album, Clockworked.
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Stray From The Path will disband at the end of the year
Stray From The Path will be splitting up at the end of 2025 after a series of farewell shows.
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- Luke Morton
Stray From The Path have announced that they will be “putting the band to rest” at the end of 2025.
Breaking the unexpected news on social media, the metallic hardcore favourites explain that their new album Clockworked – released today – will be their last.
“This is a mutual decision, there’s no bad blood, we love each other and we love you all,” said the band on Instagram. "In the next couple weeks, we will be announcing our final tour dates, and after 2025 we will be putting the band to rest. Looking forward to celebrating the band one last time together for the rest of this year.
“Thank you for everything.”
The news of the split comes in tandem with the surprise-release of their new album Clockworked, which they dropped without any run-up or single releases, defying industry tradition.
Speaking to Kerrang! about the decision, guitarist Tom Williams said, “I wanted to tap into the feeling I had when I would get records as a kid. Like, when Deftones’ White Pony came out, I saw the Change (In The House Of Flies) video on TV, then I went to the store and bought it. That doesn’t really happen anymore. Normally nowadays you announce the record and put out one song, then maybe a month later you’ll put out another song, then eventually the album comes out. It’s annoying. I play videogames, so when I saw the trailer for the remaster of Metal Gear Solid: Snake Eater and the release date was like a year later, it pissed me off. But I watch TV shows, too, and when I found out that the whole new season of Squid Game would be out in like two weeks I was all like, ‘Let’s go!’
“I work in management for other bands, including Counterparts, who did something similar recently with their Heaven Let Them Die EP. Theirs was completely secret, though. We didn’t tell anyone. We didn’t ship it to stores. We didn’t even upload it to Spotify until 48 hours before to avoid leaks. Stray haven’t been quite so secretive. People have known that one day they will wake up and a record will be there. I just find the idea that someone could find out about it, then go down to their record store and actually buy it an hour later so exciting.”
Clockworked is out now via SharpTone. Stay tuned to Kerrang! for farewell tour updates.
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