Rising Insane announce new album ‘Wildfires’

RISING INSANE have announced a new album!

Titled Wildfires, the upcoming album from the German metalcore band is the follow-up to 2021’s Afterglow, and is scheduled to be released in August this year, via Long Branch Records.

Speaking about the upcoming album, vocalist Aaron Steineker says, “over the last two years, I have felt that there is a huge source of strife lurking around every corner. All we have to do is pick up our cell phone and we’re immediately thrown into a hate-filled sea of conflict, there’s so much hate everywhere. You get the feeling that the world around us is on fire when you add war, global warming, inflation and depression to the mix. That’s how this album got the title Wildfires. Each song on the album is about a specific trouble spot, themes and stories that have weighed on me while writing. Our goal is to create awareness through our music of how much we burden ourselves and each other instead of focusing on things that connect us and create positivity.”

Alongside the announcement of the new album, RISING INSANE have released a new song from the upcoming new album; Malicious. The new song is the second single to be released from the upcoming album, following on from Reign, which was released last month.

Speaking about the new song, Steineker says, “Malicious is actually quite an old song, probably even the oldest of Wildfires. I remember that we wrote the first version of Malicious at the same time as Chemicals. But there was absolutely no comparison between that song and the finished product. We first had to understand what exactly we wanted and how we could achieve it. In this process we had many lows, and ironically that’s the main aspect of the lyrics: You’re not satisfied with anything, nothing is good enough, you are not good enough. Everything you start is doomed to fail. Only after I added these lyrics to the song did it become Malicious – without the many lows, the song would never have existed.”

Listen to Malicious here: 

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

Track List: 

1. Reign
2. Monster
3. Lighthouse
4. Malicious
5. Bet On Me
6. Warning
7. Counting Regrets (Interlude)
8. Carousel
9. Burn
10. The Door
11. Wildfires

Wildfires is set for release on August 23rd via Long Branch Records. Pre-orders are available now and can be purchased here.

For more information on RISING INSANE like their official page on Facebook.