Free Throw Announce New Album “Moments Before The Wind”

Nashville-based quintet Free Throw have announced their new album, Moments Before The Wind will be released on 27th March 2026 via Wax Bodega Pre-save here

Alongside the announcement come first single A Hero’s Grave.  A track that juxtaposes a serpentine guitar line and buoyant ’90s groove against Castro’s gruff vocals, helped along by the first-blush energy of writing on the spot.

https://youtu.be/YgP07Pq2NTk?si=kQbeDczW0dQlH-vI

Having worked hard for many years and enjoyed global tours with the likes of Hot Mulligan and New Found Glory and slots at Slam Dunk, Riot Fest, and The Fest. Every milestone has pushed them ahead, but on their sixth LP, Moments Before The Wind, that constant charge gradually slows, suspended mid-step, mid-thought, mid-life.

“The record has this theme of liminality – not just as a place, but in your mind,” vocalist/guitarist Cory Castro explains. “It’s like being stuck in a doorframe or a long hallway that never ends.”

The band have once again returned to longtime producer Brett Romnes (Hot Mulligan, The Movielife) for this record. Together, they wrote and recorded the album’s 11 tracks in two sessions on either side of the band’s touring. Stepping away between sessions gave them perspective; when they returned to the studio, they heard everything with fresh ears. At the same time, Romnes challenged them to trust their instincts, resulting in spontaneous sonic breakthroughs: 

In all, the record chronicles a period of intense personal upheaval in Castro’s life: the dissolution of a long-term relationship and attempts to move on, the slow realisation that what he’d lost was actually what he truly wanted and, ultimately, the life-altering moment of finding out midway through recording that he was going to be a father. The closing track, “The Waters Of Life,” written in the afterglow of that news, becomes the push that finally shoves him through the doorway into something new.

“There was a lot to write about this time around, but getting over that threshold definitely took some time,” Castro says. “We tend to write albums that have a conceptual arc to them, but you just sort of have to let the songs reveal themselves and figure out what that actually is. When I got the call that I was going to be a dad, I immediately knew what song I was going to write. It just felt right.”

Pulled from Mark Z. Danielewski’s cult novel House of Leaves, Moments Before The Wind references a passage that compares life to fragile structures on the verge of being blown apart and rearranged into something unrecognisable. It’s artwork mirrors that feeling: a massive crystal head cracked open, its interior filled with surreal, Dalí-esque rooms and corridors that echo the “backrooms” of the mind Castro kept returning to while writing lyrics. 

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Free Throw Released New Song And Video ’Mike Nolan’s Long Weekend”

Free Throw has released “Mike Nolan’s Long Weekend” which features Dom Fox from the band Bad Luck.

https://youtu.be/l-MlfLt9idU?feature=shared

“’Mike Nolan’s Long Weekend’ at its core, is a song about feeling misunderstood, or the feeling that people only look at what you say on a surface level” explains vocalist Cory Castro. “For instance, when I write songs about drinking and the issues that come with it, sometimes people just treat it like a party song. In reality, I’m usually exploring a much darker theme. This song explores how sometimes there can be something a little more serious hiding slightly beneath the surface.”

“Mike Nolan’s Long Weekend” is the bands first new music in over 2 years. The band spent last year celebrating the 10 year anniversary of their classic record Those Days Are Gone. This included the release of deluxe version of the album that included the original songs, new versions of songs that will feature vocals from Tades Sanville of Hot Mulligan, Nathan Hardy of Microwave, Pat Miranda of Movements, Christine Goodwyne of Pool Kids and Yvette Young of Covet with additional live versions of the original tracks rounding out the album, commemorating ten years of its release. This was followed by a tour that saw the band playing the record in full to sold out crowds across the country

Free Throw will be hitting the road for a short tour with label mates Chase Petra and TRSH in the US, alongside an appearance at Riot Fest in Chicago as well as supporting the Menzingers at their Stone Pony Summer Stage. The band will head to the UK and Europe in the Autumn for dates with Prince Daddy & The Hyena and as part of the Common Thread Tour.

TOUR DATES

18th September -Columbus, OH Skully’s
20th September Chicago, IL Riot Fest*
22nd September Indianapolis, IN Hi-Fi Indy
23rd September Pittsburgh, PA Thunderbird Music Hall
25th September Allentown, PA Arrow @Archer Music hall
26th September Rochester, NY Monstage Music Hall
9/27 Asbury Park, NJ Stone Pony Summer Stage W/Menzingers

17th October-Headcrash. Hamburg Germany
18th October- Oberhausen, Germany (fest)
19th October- Bruxelles, Belgium (fest)
20th October- Haarlem, Netherlands (fest)
21st October-Nachtleben, Frankfurt am Main, Germany
24th October- The Joiners, Southampton, UK
25th October – DIngwalls, London, UK (fest)
26th October- LSU Leeds, UK (fest)
27th October- Flapper Birmingham, UK
28th October- The Cavern, Exeter, UK
29th October Chalk, Brighton, UK

“MIKE NOLAN’S LONG WEEKEND” OUT NOW

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SILVERSTEIN Announces Final Leg Of '25 Years Of Noise' Tour

https://blabbermouth.net/news/silverstein-announces-final-leg-of-25-years-of-noise-tour

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Four Year Strong, Free Throw, One Step Closer, & Death Lens U.S. tour announced

https://metalnerd.net/four-year-strong-free-throw-one-step-close-death-lens-u-s-tour-announced/

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Damn if these lyrics don’t sum up how I feel some days. 🫥

“Sometimes I feel so fucking worthless
Flawed and imperfect
Defective, out of service
At most I’m just refurbished
(Somewhat fixed up and barely working)
For all that it’s worth”

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