Sharptooth releases new single via Brooklyn Vegan

Sharptooth is a female fronted hardcore/metalcore band from Maryland, and have announced that their second record, titled Transitional Forms will come out on July 10th via No Sleep Records.

Ahead of their album release, they have dropped their song “The Gray” on Brooklyn Vegan, which you can find by clicking the link here.

Vocalist Lauren Kashan says of the new song;

“I’ve always seen ‘The Gray’ as the emotional and conceptual turning point of the entire record, and arguably the most important song on it. Over the years, I’ve noticed how uncomfortable people are with nuance; whether that be in public discourse or personally. It doesn’t help that so many facets of our culture are presented in binaries: “You’re ‘woke’ or you’re ‘cancelled’. You have depression, or you don’t. You’re a man, or you’re a woman. You’re a democrat or you’re a republican.

I find it fascinating that the idea of taking in new information and changing your views based on that novel information or experience is pretty foreign to far too many of us (which is wild when you consider that the thing human beings excel at, above all else, is being adaptable.) I feel like there’s so much pressure in modern society to align yourself with a specific polarity or to exist only within a binary, be it social, political, or personal, and then only to relinquish it when it’s been pried from your cold, dead hands. I myself have fallen into that trap again and again; it’s so easy when you are continually fed information that reinforces said binary, or the permanence of one’s condition.

But nothing in the world or in ourselves is absolute, and nothing changes when we are only acknowledging constructs as black or white and utterly immutable. True progress can only happen when we make a decision to step outside of this way of thinking, and explore nuance.

So what’s ‘The Gray’ about? It’s about the search for and discovery of a world beyond binaries, beyond textbooks, beyond diagnoses, beyond red or blue. It’s about the power we unlock when we make that discovery. It’s about neuroplasticity, and the ability of each and every one of us to change our minds, both conceptually and literally. It’s about the ways that I have intentionally destroyed so many of these constructs in my life, so as to reshape my own existence, and rewire the very neuronal pathways inside my own brain. I hope it inspires others to find that power within themselves, because I believe that when we embrace the grey areas in life and in ourselves is where we can finally begin to cultivate real and tangible hope.”

Be sure to stream “The Gray” via Brooklyn Vegan, and to be on the lookout for Transitional Forms when it drops on July 10th.

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