Don DeVore from Frail and Ink And Dagger is here

Turned Out A Punk

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🗓️ 22 October 2025

⏱️ 99 minutes

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Summary

We’re knocking on your window because Don DeVore has come to TOAP! Listen in as Damian sits down with the Frail and Ink And Dagger legend to talk real vampires and all things punk. From misunderstanding Lifetime at Middlesex, to the origins of Straight Edge Means I’m Better Than You, to being in Rain On The Parade, to raining on people’s parades in Ink and Dagger and so much more: DON’T MISS THIS!

Pre-order your Ink & Dagger reissues and merch from Trust Records NOW!!

Also, Don't miss Don playing in Frail and grab from Frail merch from Numero

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0:00.0	The
0:07.0	The Hello and welcome to Turned Out of Punk.
0:30.6	I'm your host, Damien Abraham, and today on the show, Don DeVore is here.
0:37.1	You may know him from the band Frail, you may know him from the band, Incan Dagger, you may know him from Rain on the show, Don DeVore is here. You may know him from the band Frail.
0:38.5	You may know him from the band, Nick and Dagger. You may know him from rain on the parade. You may know him from, we'll talk about all that in a second. Someone I've been a big fan of for a very long time. Someone I've always wanted to have a conversation like this with. And so that's why we do this podcast. You can check out, of course, the frail reissues
0:57.3	that have been happening and there's been some frail reunion shows over at Numero Group.
1:01.4	They've got some stuff about that. Of course, they've been doing those. But we are here today
1:05.0	to talk about these stunning new ink and dagger reissues that our good friends, Trust Records,
1:10.6	have put out for pre-order
1:12.4	hurry over to trust records.com and you can still order a couple different colors of the fine art
1:18.4	of original sin and you can still order maybe one color of the self-titled album but this thing
1:25.5	is selling like hotcakes they have some reunion shows going down in Philadelphia for Inkin Dagger, but those are already
1:32.4	sold out. So I'm sure this stuff will get, you know, wider released. I mean, maybe they'll
1:40.3	play more shows, but I mean, like, like your records you'll find available at your local
1:44.8	record store and if you have not if you're not hip to ink and dagger my gosh you are in for a trip
1:51.7	this is the uh vampire themed hardcore band from the 90s but there's there's so much more to them
2:00.2	that that kind of like gets dismissed by that
2:03.1	but we'll parse this all out with dawn in a second uh so head over to trust records.com and
2:09.4	order while you can one of these records and keep your ears peeled for dawn playing shows with
2:16.6	the lilies playing shows with frail, playing shows with
2:20.0	Ink and Dagger. We'll have links to this, of course, in the description for you to check out.
2:25.6	I'm not going to ramble on anymore because I'm very, very excited for this episode. I don't
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