Gazpacho announce new album ‘Magic 8-Ball’

August 28, 2025 James Weaver

Norwegian progressive rock band GAZPACHO have announced a new album!

Titled Magic 8-Ball, the upcoming album marks the band’s return after a five-year break (2020’s Fireworker) and is scheduled to be released in October this year, via Kscope.

The upcoming album was mixed by Thomas Juth (a-ha, Elton John, Paul McCartney, Cat Stevens) and mastered by Hans Olsson at Svenska Grammofonstudion Mastering.

Alongside the announcement of the new album, the band have released the first single from the record, 8-Ball, accompanied by a music video created by Matt Vickerstaff. The video draws inspiration from the suffocating and oppressive nature of cults.

Speaking about the new video, the band says, “we removed God and left nothing to replace him. We started believing in the void handing everything over to chance. Magic 8-Ball is about someone who gambles everything, believing that eventually everyone gets their break. That the universe is fair if you just wait long enough. But the break never comes. He loses everything and is left with the realization that it was never fate, only his own choices. His responsibility. His idea. We didn’t become more rational. We just found new things to believe in and built a new magical reality to replace the one we tore down. Stocks. Crypto. Luck. Magical ideas pretending to be modern.

The video, created by the insanely talented Matt Peaceville, is a found recruitment tape from The Cult of Infinity, who worship chance itself. To them, the Magic 8-Ball is divine because of its emptiness. No thoughts. No mercy. Just pure, sacred random. The 8 isn’t a number. It’s infinity. We’ve just been looking at it sideways.”

Watch the official music video for 8-Ball here: