News: SSD Announce Deluxe Reissue of Give It Away

The straight-edge band SSD (short for “Society System Decontrol”), have announced the deluxe reissue of their landmark album Get It Away courtesy of Trust Records. They’ve also announced part one of Get It Away: The Story of SSD (Part One). The deluxe album includes a remastered audio and will be out across all digital platforms for the first time ever.

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SSD are universally recognized as the first straightedge band that began back in 1982. The band is composed of Al Barile, David “Springa” Spring, Francois Levesque, Jaime Sciarappa, and Chris Foley. The Kids Will Have Their Say is their debut album and considered a landmark release for hardcore music. However, many of their fans consider SSD’s 1983 sophomore, Get It Away, to be the band’s most important release. As such, Trust Records have reissued both seminal albums, The Kids Will Have Their Say was rereleaedback in 2023, and Get It Away comes out this year. They have also partnered with Six Stair Productions to tell the SSD story. The short film has been divided in two parts and directed and edited by Coan Buddy Nichols.

A dramatic shift for Get It Away was the improved recording quality of this recording. Whilst The Kids Will Have Their Say was recorded during multiple sessions on 8-track recorders, Get It Away was done on 24-tracks at Downtown Studios in Boston and produced by Mike Bastarche and Lou Giodano. Get It Away is the result of five people and a confluence of circumstances that came together in an extremely specific manner to create this document.

SSD’s take on the documentary:

“I think sometimes the arc of a band intersects with the arc of public taste, and you have a moment. Whether it’s the cover art of Pushead or the pictures of us playing at CBGB on the back, or maybe it’s just how unique we sounded in 1983. I think for some people, it captured a moment in time.” – Chris Foley

“When we were kids doing this stuff, I don’t remember thinking about future relevance. I’ve got to admit it’s pretty cool nowadays to hear how much the album meant to them and many have it in their top five hardcore albums of all time, which is a nice compliment.” – Jaime Sciarappa