Phoenix heavyweights American Standards have fired off one last surprise from their farewell record, Future Orphans: A newly extended version of Kodak Stare, featuring the haunting vocal grit of Cleveland’s genre-defying Skuff Micksun. This isn’t a remix. It’s not a stripped-down reprise. It’s the original song, still serrated with mathcore precision and hardcore fury, pushed further into emotional freefall. Skuff Micksun‘s voice cuts into the track’s climactic breakdown like a second narrator crashing into the story, turning the song’s final act into a dialogue between two raw and unflinching perspectives. With this release, Future Orphans doesn’t just close, it sounds its death knell: “it’ll all be over soon.”

“Skuff’s voice adds a whole new layer of urgency without changing the DNA of the track. It’s like an echo from outside our world answering back.” (frontman Brandon Kellum)

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