Polyphia announce new album ‘Be Not Afraid’
POLYPHIA have announced a brand new album!
The genre-splicing instrumental rock band have revealed their fifth studio album, Be Not Afraid, which is scheduled for release on October 23rd via Rise Records. The upcoming record follows 2022’s Remember That You Will Die.
Written across sessions in Miami, Los Angeles and Dallas alongside co-producer RJ Pasin and guitarist Spiro Dussias, the new album sees POLYPHIA pushing deeper into their unique fusion of metal, progressive music, electronic influences and intricate guitar work. According to guitarist Tim Henson, the album explores the duality of uplifting triumph and spine-chilling darkness, while serving as the band’s most meaningful and ambitious work to date.
Speaking about the album, Henson shares, “instead of going wide on Be Not Afraid, we went as deep as we could. There are so many layers to pull back. Every time you listen to it, you’ll notice something new. Thematically, it’s by far the most meaningful record we’ve ever made.”
Guitarist Scott LePage adds, “we physically can’t make the same album twice. We have a yearning to evolve. It was so much fun to write this one together too – the writing sessions for past POLYPHIA records typically looked like us gathering our ideas separately first and bringing them to each other second, so we took a different approach with Be Not Afraid by treating the sessions like an opportunity to create with everybody in the room first before getting into the separate writing. It was a much more communal approach that led to us having so much fun making it that the fun itself was the magic being captured.”
Henson continues, “the album takes you through the extremes of two different worlds / moods: one being very uplifting and triumphant, the other being spine-chilling and terrifying. There are moments on the record that legitimately scare me when I listen to them.”
On the inspiration behind the record, he explains, “during the making of this record, we went down some pretty dark rabbit holes. We kept coming across things that were so depraved they sounded insane when you said them out loud. Then some of the very things we had been talking about started appearing in documents released to the public. You can read that stuff and feel disgusted, demoralised, and completely powerless. Be Not Afraid is our response to that. Rather than allowing the ugliness of the world to paralyse us, we put everything we had into making something beautiful. We weren’t afraid of whether something was too different or whether people were going to understand it. We just followed what excited us and made what I believe is our best record to date.”
To coincide with the announcement, POLYPHIA have also unveiled Power In The Blood, the latest single from the forthcoming record.
Watch the official music video for Power In The Blood here:
Also, you can view both the track list and artwork for the upcoming new album below:
Track List:
- Let There Be Light
- With Eyes To See
- Screwtape
- Power In The Blood
- They Know Not What They Do
- Mark Of The Beast
- Can You Feel It
- Near Death
- J-Bomb
- Deny The Flesh
- Devil Get Behind Me
- Fear God
Be Not Afraid is set for release on October 23rd via Rise Records. Pre-orders are available now and can be purchased here.
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