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Alternative 21/09/2021

Influential South Bay Punks Deviates Release First New Album In 20 Years

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New York, NY (Top40 Charts) The long wait is over. Influential South Bay punk rock band Deviates have released 'Holding Out,' their first new album in 20 years.
Of the new single "The Liar" frontman Brian Barbara says, ""The Liar only tells you what you want to hear. Don't listen to the Liar."
The 7-song album was recorded with Grammy-winning producer Cameron Webb, and coincides with a run of west coast shows with Pennywise Oct. 7-9 and Nov. 5th.

Deviates have also announced a December 11th headline show, which fittingly was the site of their last show two decades ago. Special guest openers include Cigar, the Line, and Hoist The Colors. Tickets for the show are now available at www.deviatesband.com.

In addition to the digital release of 'Holding Out,' 500 limited edition translucent blood red vinyl copies of the album are available, with vinyl shipping on 11/15.
Order Deviates merch and vinyl at: https://merch.deviatesband.com

"The Liar" follows on the heels of the two recently released album tracks "Wasted" and "40 Days and 40 Nights" (the latter of which features single cover art from renowned artist Craola, aka Greg Simkins.

Twenty years ago, Deviates were considered "the future of punk rock." The South Bay band encapsulated everything that was right about Southern California's late '90s/early 2000s punk scene, and they seemed poised to explode after consecutive summers on the Warped Tour and the success of Time is the Distance, their sophomore effort.
A year later, they weren't even a band anymore.
"At the time, it seemed like being a part of the future of punk rock required devotion to being in a touring band for life, which wasn't really what I think we had intended or what we thought it was gonna be," says lead singer Brian Barbara. "When we started the band in 1994, we didn't think that it would be anything. We were just kids playing the music we listened to, and punk rock was the soundtrack to our lives. By the time it evolved and grew to where we were putting out records, life had changed and we were ready to lay it down, and we didn't know if that would be forever or when we'd pick it back up again."

As it turns out, 2021 would be the year Deviates picked up their instruments again — and now they're back with a renewed fire inside of them.

The band's third album, Holding Out, is a seven-song blast of SoCal punk rock new and old. A combination of recently written tunes alongside tracks created in the early 2000s for Deviates' ill-fated original attempt at a third album, the South Bay punks' latest work fuses every bit of melodic aggression that put the band on the cusp of stardom their first go-around with the more intelligent and mature approach that only decades of life experience can provide.

But while Barbara and the band may look and sound a little different now than they did in their early 20s, they're still fueled by the same rage that fired them up before their 2002 breakup. They're jumping right back into the spotlight this fall with shows featuring the likes of Pennywise and Dead Kennedys, and they're more appreciative than ever of the friends, fans, and overall scene that continued to support them through their multi-decade hiatus.

This time around, they've got the added blessings of no longer being dumb kids and not having stratospheric expectations or external pressures on the band. As full-grown adults with other careers and families, Deviates is only reuniting because they want to — both for themselves and for everyone who's been waiting for this moment. It's a level of freedom the band never knew in their first run, and it has them more excited to perform and create than ever before. Much like how punk rock has continued to persist and reach generation after generation of disgruntled youths regardless of what's popular on the radio, the group carries a renewed passion for both the music and the people around them — regardless of if they're old fans or ones that discovered them in the interim.

"Twenty years later, you think you'll never do it again, but I honestly never stopped writing and never stopped documenting music — and it always ended up going back to punk rock," Barbara says. "I was 16 when we started this and I'm 42 now, but there's always been this common thread for Deviates, which is that we've always been representative of the crowd that we play in front of. Twenty years later the heart behind this hasn't changed."

Tour Dates:
10/7 - Majestic Ventura Theater - Ventura, CA (w/ Pennywise + Dead Kennedys + Slaughterhouse)
10/8 - The Majestic Ventura Theater - Ventura, CA (w/ Pennywise + Strung Out + The Line) (SOLD OUT)
10/9 - Fremont Theatre - San Luis Obispo, CA (w/ Pennywise + The Line)
11/5- SOMA - San Diego CA (w/ Pennywise + Strung Out + Urethane)
12/11 - Troubadour- West Hollywood, CA (HEADLINE SHOW w/ Cigar, The Line, Hoist The Colors)
Website: www.deviatesband.com
Facebook: www.facebook.com/deviatespunk
Instagram: www.instagram.com/deviatesband






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