The Old Dead Tree announce new album ‘Second Thoughts’

September 19, 2024 James Weaver

THE OLD DEAD TREE have announced a new album!

Titled Second Thoughts, the upcoming album from the French progressive death metal band is the long awaited follow-up to 2007’s The Water Fields, and is scheduled to be released in December this year, via Season Of Mist.

Following their disbandment in 2009, in late December 2019, the band announced the unexpected release of an EP of previously unreleased material, The End, featuring tracks begun in 2008. An extensive headlining tour and dates with LACUNA COIL are scheduled. Nevertheless, the pandemic thwarted these plans, and they were canceled one by one, with the exception of the band’s Paris date, which had sold out months in advance and was postponed until the end of 2022.

For a while, the members of THE OLD DEAD TREE were considering scrapping their return to the stage altogether, but finally settled on the last concert still to be announced, so as not to disillusion the hundreds of people who had already bought tickets. After months of waiting, and with the world in a state of questioning after the pandemic, the band finally decided to write a new song. In the spring of 2023, the popularity of the new single Terrified and the band’s high-profile appearance at Hellfest paved the way for the band’s long-lasting comeback.

Alongside the announcement of the new album, the band have released a new music video for a new song lifted from the upcoming album; Unpredictable.

Watch the official music video for Unpredictable here:

Also, you can view both the track list and artwork for the upcoming new album below:

Track List:

1. Unpredictable
2. Don’t Waste Your Time
3. The Lightest Straw
4. Better Off Dead
5. Without A Second Thought
6. Luke
7. Story Of My Life
8. Fresh Start
9. I Wish I Could
10. The Trap
11. Solastalgia
12. OK
13. The Worst Is Yet To Come
14. Terrified (Box Set Bonus Track)