DEATH BY STEREO • Black Sheep Of The American Dream • LP • Pre-Order

Concrete Jungle Records
Re-Release date: 14. November 2025

The sixth DEATH BY STEREO studio album "Black Sheep Of The American Dream" will be reissued on November 14, 2025 via Concrete Jungle Records. Re-mastered by Paul Miner and featuring brand-new artwork by Rob Wallace! This album marked the band’s return to their hardcore punk roots — woven together with crushing metal breakdowns and the hellish solos of party shredder Dan Palmer.

With Black Sheep Of The American Dream, DEATH BY STEREO also brought original bassist and founding member Paul Miner back on board. In addition to his invaluable skills on bass, he also helped steer the album — as co-producer, co-writer, mixer, and mastering engineer — in a direction somewhere between If Looks Could Kill, I'd Watch You Die and Into the Valley of Death. And the result was no less impressive, especially considering the bands Paul Miner has produced in recent years: TERROR, H2O, THRICE, ATREYU, and more.

But it wasn’t just the sound that harkened back to the If Looks Could Kill, I'd Watch You Die era — lyrically, DEATH BY STEREO also shifted their focus back to more socially critical themes.
"With this album we're calling the world to stand up and fight," says Efrem Schulz, vocalist of DEATH BY STEREO.
The opening track, "WTF Is Going On Around Here?", is a clear statement against right-wing, conservative ideologies and calls on all people — regardless of nationality or skin color — to fight systems of oppression.

They also drew from stories in their own environment and personal lives. The song "The 5th Of July", for instance, tells the story of a brutal murder in their neighborhood, where a mildly mentally impaired homeless man named Kelly Thomas was beaten to death by several police officers.
"The song takes issue with police brutality and the way the American justice system is designed for us to fail and for the powers that be to take control. No matter what it costs, even human life," Schulz explains.