Polyphia has introduced their new album, Be Not Afraid, which can be launched later this yr. The band has not put out a studio album since 2022’s Keep in mind That You Will Die and spent the final two years heading down “fairly darkish rabbit holes” to give you materials for his or her fifth launch.

The album announcement additionally noticed the discharge of lead single, Energy within the Blood. Polyphia labored on the album all through 2024 and 2025 in Miami, Los Angeles, and Dallas.

Guitarist Tim Henson confirmed the composition of the album modified massively, initially singing traces out loud after which translating them to guitar. He stated: “As a substitute of going large on Be Not Afraid, we went as deep as we might. There are such a lot of layers to drag again. Each time you take heed to it, you’ll discover one thing new. Thematically, it’s by far essentially the most significant report we’ve ever made.”

Guitarist Scott LePage added: “We bodily can’t make the identical album twice. Now we have a craving to evolve. It was a lot enjoyable to put in writing this one collectively too – the writing periods for previous Polyphia data usually regarded like us gathering our concepts individually first and bringing them to one another second, so we took a distinct strategy with Be Not Afraid by treating the periods like a possibility to create with all people within the room first earlier than stepping into the separate writing.

“It was a way more communal strategy that led to us having a lot enjoyable making it that the enjoyable itself was the magic being captured.”

Henson added: “The album takes you thru the extremes of two completely different worlds / moods: one being very uplifting and triumphant, the opposite being spine-chilling and terrifying. There are moments on the report that legitimately scare me after I take heed to them.”

Tim Henson, who has been within the band since its founding in 2010, added that the band headed into darker territory and is their response to feeling “disgusted, demoralised, and utterly powerless”.

He stated: “Throughout the making of this report, we went down some fairly darkish rabbit holes. We saved coming throughout issues that had been so wicked they sounded insane while you stated them out loud. Then a number of the very issues we had been speaking about began showing in paperwork launched to the general public. You possibly can learn that stuff and really feel disgusted, demoralised, and utterly powerless.

“Be Not Afraid is our response to that. Reasonably than permitting the ugliness of the world to paralyse us, we put the whole lot we had into making one thing lovely. We weren’t afraid of whether or not one thing was too completely different or whether or not folks had been going to grasp it. We simply adopted what excited us and made what I imagine is our greatest report up to now.”

Dates for the band’s European tour, which begins on November 17 on the Halle 622 in Zurich, will be discovered beneath:

• Nov 18 – Zurich, CH – Halle 622
• Nov 19 – Lyon, FR – Le Radiant
• Nov 20 – Toulouse, FR – Interference
• Nov 22 – Barcelona, ES – Razzmatazz
• Nov 23 – Madrid, ES – Sala La Riviera
• Nov 25 – Milan, IT – Alcatraz
• Nov 27 – Munich, DE – Zenith
• Nov 28 – Prague, CZ – SaSaZu
• Nov 29 – Warsaw, PL – Progresja
• Nov 30 – Leipzig, DE – Haus Auensee
• Dec 2 – Hamburg, DE – Docks
• Dec 4 – Copenhagen, DK – Amager Bio
• Dec 5 – Berlin, DE – Tempodrom
• Dec 6 – Oberhausen, DE – Turbinenhalle
• Dec 7 – Brussels, BE – Ancienne Belgique
• Dec 8 – Amsterdam, NL – AFAS Stay
• Dec 9 – Paris, FR – Zenith Paris
• Dec 11 – Birmingham, UK – O2 Academy Birmingham
• Dec 12 – Manchester, UK – Manchester Academy
• Dec 15 – Leeds, UK – O2 Academy Leeds
• Dec 16 – London, UK – O2 Academy Brixton

Be taught extra at Polyphia’s official web site.