On Sammy Ciaramitaro’s right shin, just above his sock, is a piece of gauze held in place by two thin bandages. It’s covering a gash – one of many the Drain frontman has received since his band started in 2014 – that he got the night before. He’s sitting upstairs in the green room of Starland Ballroom in Sayreville as part of their current tour with Guilt Trip , Gideon and Texan metalcore heavyweights Kublai Khan TX . He winces slightly as he peels the bandage back to inspect the damage.

“Yesterday, we played a show,” he begins, his words running at 100mph as they tend to do, a little garbled sometimes as a result. “I was feeling horrible. It was a fucked-up day for me, I don’t even know what happened. I was feeling faint at one point, it was crazy. I was literally was telling the

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