The band vowed to never play the song again after Jesse left the band in early 2006. Also, Jesse rocks the shit out of an OG Too Pure To Die shirt. The band filmed a video for it which featured a lot of old footage of Compromise as well a dedication to the fallen members of the band at the beginning of the video.
The undeniably best track on the album was titled The Year Summer Ended In June and was written about the tragic events that brought about the end of Compromise. Jesse Zaraska only ended up playing a handful of shows with the group before they turned into Misery Signals and produced one of the most amazing metalcore albums of all time in the form of Of Malice And The Magnum Heart. It would only be a month later that one of the surviving members of Compromise would join 7 Angels 7 Plagues as their replacement vocalist. To see someone cut down in the prime of their life due to someone else's irresponsible actions just never settled well with me.
Still to this day I can't put my finger on why exactly I empathized with the situation so much especially considering I didn't even know the guys in the band. Something about this struck very close to home for me. This was around the same time that I was beginning to go out on my own tours and I was roughly the same age as these guys at the time. There is talk of a benefit show being arranged to help offset funeral costs. The band was on tour at the time, amidst a few shows with 7 Angels 7 Plagues. Singer Jesse Zaraska, 23, bass player Braden Sustrik, 19, and Ryan Kittlitz, 20, all sustained injuries in the crash. Jordan Wodehouse, 19, and Daniel Langlois, 20, were killed, and two other bandmates badly injured after a Pathfinder rear-ended the band's 1985 Ford van at 2 a.m. "Two members of Edmonton-based hardcore band Compromise were tragically killed this past Thursday in a horrific automobile accident on Interstate 20 near Heflin, Alabama. I actually don't know much biographical information about Compromise other than the regrettable facts that the hardcore world came to know on June 16th, 2002. As usual, I feel compelled to give a Path To Misery bump to yet another under-appreciated metalcore band from the early 2000s. It actually even took me a few years to find Mp3s. This is one of the few bands whose albums I've been unable to track down physical copies of. So this post has been a long time coming.
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