Straight Edge bands Bystander, Life Force, Counterpoint, Bethold City, xForgiveness Deniedx, Time and Pressure, Wake of Humanity, and Rejection Pact have contributed music to a new benefit album. The album is being issued by Patient Zero Records in order to raise money for the fight against the COVID-19 pandemic.
From Patient Zero Records:
Defending the Commonwealth is a benefit compilation to raise money to help fight the COVID-19 pandemic. All profits from this release are being donated to the Massachusetts General Hospital Emergency Relief Fund. These courageous individuals are fighting a war on the front lines like one we have not seen before.
Here are a few of the ways the dollars are being put to work.
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Development of an in-house testing capability, to meet the needs of the patients and health care workers.
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Purchase of Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) for health care workers.
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Innovative solutions for device development and production (3D printing for masks for example).
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Support of COVID-19 Hotline for patients, in particular staffing the operation with an adequate number of interpreters to help non-English speaking patients access information.
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Enhancement of telemedicine capabilities, to ensure patients have a reasonable alternative to physically visiting the hospital, thereby averting possible exposure to the virus.
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Subsidization of childcare costs for essential hospital employees, whose children are home due to school closures.
The benefit record is being released as a cassette, and all orders will include a digital download. The record is currently up for pre-order, with shipping to begin at the end of May. The full tracking listing can be seen below:
Tracks:
1. Burden - Year of the Wolf
2. Crafter - Grey Weather
3. Restraining Order - Vengeance (The Fix)
4. Maniac - No Fucking Heroes/Machine
5. Combust - Combust
6. Escuela Grind - Eradicated
7. Pushed Out - Unlearn
8. XForgiveness DeniedX - Free
9. Ghost Fame - Stay
10. Counterpoint - Counterpoint
11. 3weekoldroses - Poison Envy/Nauseous Nostalgia
12. Sick Minds - Liar
13. Allegation - My Reality
14. Bystander - Broken No More
15. Enforced - Reckoning Force
16. Lift - The Fact Remains
17. The Path - United Worldwide (Warzone)
18. Faded Line - Two Steps Behind
19. Silence Equals Death - Intro/As One (Live)
20. Rejection Pact - Threats of the World
21. Scavengers - Flourescent Coffin
22. Berthold City - What Time Takes
23. Wake of Humanity - It's Still Not Enough
24. Hundreds of AU - Thruway
25. Time and Pressure - This Is Not An Exit
26. Fire & Flood - Fight Back
27. Discourage - Snake Oil
28. Pointbreak - Broken Home
29. Dead Blow Hammer - Shorter Circuits
30. Brick By Brick - Hive Mentality
31. Dare To Be - Rain Season
32. Life Force - Acting For A Change
33. Fall - Ghosts
34. Lead Dream - Identity Theft
35. Court Order - Future Machine
36. Sinking - Cemetery
