Crust-d-beat act DISTRESS has released a new single and video for the track The Herd. The song is taken from upcoming album Under Pressure Of Reality, set to be released August 8, 2025 via Selfmadegod Records.
Vocalist Alex commented on The Herd: We have always tried to make songs with a message that’s open enough so that anyone can understand the idea behind a song. With every new recording we moved further and further away from some standard ordinary forms, towards more real things that excite us in real life. And it seems that in this album we succeded to express the things that do bother us in this totalitarian hell around. The song “Herd” is quite straight forward in it’s idea: any system is aimed to maintain control over the masses by any means. To change people’s perception of the surrounding reality in a way that is beneficial to the ruling elite, turning people into a grey mindless substance capable of consuming any necessary content. It’s gonna last forever until people learn to think independently and stop blindly believing cheap propaganda.
Our good old friend from Petrozavodsk made a short live video for this track. Don’t try to find a deep message in the video itself, it is just a short fragment of our live shows.
The story of DISTRESS is so long but this story is similar to hundreds of stories of other punk bands. Distress began in the distant past of the year of 2003 when the four guys from different local punk bands decided to start with new band to make more raw and aggressive noise. Times passed, line-up changed but two ingredients stay the same through times and situations: the original singer Alex’s voice and the band’s signature sound — Swedish style D-Beat mixed with touch of metal and gallons of booze.
DISTRESS shared stage with: Napalm Death, Discharge, Antisect, Oi Polloi, Tragedy, Warcry, Wheel Of Dharma, Infekcja, Visions Of War, Diskelma, Wolfbrigade, Warcollapse and plays on numerous festivals including: Obscene Extreme, Play Fast or Don’t, More Noise For Life, Puntala Rock, Hygget, United Help Festival, Svora Fest, Minimum Pop Fest and hundreds of gigs mostly in DIY venues.
Watch the video for The Herd here
FFO: Discharge / Varukers, Anti-Cimex, Asocial, Wolfpack / Wolfbrigade, Skitsystem, Warcollapse
DISTRESS is:
Lord Alex – vocals
Destroy – guitar
Mitr – guitar
Max Tanator – bass
Andrew – drums
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