STRAY FROM THE PATH - Badge & A Bullet

Name: STRAY FROM THE PATH - Badge & A Bullet
Uploaded: 2013-01-01T00:00:00+00:00
Description: Released in July 2013 ahead of Stray From The Path's album Anonymous (Sumerian Records, September 2013), 'Badge & A Bullet' emerged during a nationally charged moment preceding the Ferguson unrest and the crystallization of the Black Lives Matter movement. The song's explicit critique of police authority abuse — framed within Long…

2013 · Early 2010s Metalcore/Hardcore Activism Era (2013) · music video

STRAY FROM THE PATH - Badge & A Bullet music video

2013Early 2010s Metalcore/Hardcore Activism Era (2013)Early 2010s political hardcore / metalcore activism — anti-police brutality, civil liberties discourse

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Released in July 2013 ahead of Stray From The Path's album Anonymous (Sumerian Records, September 2013), 'Badge & A Bullet' emerged during a nationally charged moment preceding the Ferguson unrest and the crystallization of the Black Lives Matter movement. The song's explicit critique of police authority abuse — framed within Long Island hardcore aesthetics — represents a documented convergence of politically…

Why it matters

A defining artifact of 2013 political metalcore/hardcore, 'Badge & A Bullet' cemented Stray From The Path as the premier anti-authoritarian voice in the Sumerian Records roster. The video's aesthetic — desaturated, rapid-cut, performance-documentary hybrid — became a template for politically…

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