Photo by Kathy Garcia
New England fivesome RESTRAINING ORDER — Pat Cozens [vocals], Dylan Tobia [guitar], Kyle Beaudreault [guitar], Jake Miller [guitar], Keith Freeman [bass], and Will Hirst [drums] — traffic in no nonsense hardcore punk.
The group will deliver its third full-length Future Fortune on September 12. It marks the first release for Blue Grape Music, the band’s new label home. Pre-order it here.
The band has shared the video for the gloriously gnarly first single “KNOW NOT.” Watch it here.
“‘Know Not’ takes on the simple yet hard to grasp mission in life,” states Cozens. “That we must keep moving forward. Life will always be confusing but we all know deep down what we have to do to be our best. It’s never easy, never will be, so we’ve all got to hold ourselves accountable to get to where we want to be. It also continues a constant theme of this band and in my lyrics. We must keep striving to get ahead of life, especially in a world that’s always multiple steps ahead of you.”
Emerging in 2017, Restraining Order hit their stride with 2019’s This World Is Too Much. The latter spawned the fan favorite “Don’t Really Think,” which amassed over 1.1 million Spotify streams and counting. The 2023 follow-up, Locked In Time, incited tastemaker applause. Stereogum hailed it as “a great entry point for the present-day hardcore landscape” and New Noise Magazine celebrated how, “Restraining Order introduce a new flavor of hook-filled, catchy tracks.“ Plus, Revolver christened them one of “7 Bands Leading Massachusetts Hardcore’s New Wave.””Along the way, they shared stages with the likes of Angel Du$t, Citizen, Drug Church, Fiddlehead, Fucked Up, Kublai Khan TX, LustSickPuppy, and more. The group eventually caught the attention of Blue Grape Music in 2024 and signed to the label.
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