The Warriors announce new album ‘Monomyth’

October 10, 2019 James Weaver

THE WARRIORS have announced a new album!

Titled Monomyth, the upcoming album from the American hardcore band is scheduled to be released in December via their new home at Pure Noise Records. The 12-track collection marks the band’s first new album in nearly a decade, as it follows up 2011’s See How You Are.

When writing Monomyth, frontman Marshall Lichtenwaldt found inspiration in The Kybalion as well as the concept of the hero’s journey, analysed and popularised by Joseph Campbell in his book The Hero with a Thousand Faces (which also served as a major influence on Star Wars creator George Lucas). These themes are distilled into the album’s 12 songs, juxtaposed against Eastern philosophies and meditative transcendental teachings that reverberate even louder when placed atop the band’s caustic brand of hardcore.

“People tend to get sucked into this vacuum with everything that’s happening in the news,” Lichtenwaldt says. “It’s all just a bunch of bullshit. If we wanna talk about hardcore, we need to start thinking in terms of doing things that are actually hard: Being nice to someone who doesn’t deserve it. Being kind and compassionate to someone who hasn’t earned it. If you can do that, it causes a ripple effect that reverberates farther than you can imagine. Living for others can be the hardest thing to do sometimes. Once you do that, you start feeling more fulfilled.”

Alongside the announcement of the new album, the band have released a new music video for the first song to be lifted from the upcoming album; titled Death Ritual.

Watch the official music video for Death Ritual here: