Polyphia have revealed the details for their new album “BE NOT AFRAID.” The effort will be available on October 23 and it will include the following tracks:
01. “LET THERE BE LIGHT“
02. “WITH EYES TO SEE“
03. “SCREWTAPE“
04. “POWER IN THE BLOOD“
05. “THEY KNOW NOT WHAT THEY DO“
06. “MARK OF THE BEAST“
07. “CAN YOU FEEL IT“
08. “NEAR DEATH“
09. “J-BOMB“
10. “DENY THE FLESH“
11. “DEVIL GET BEHIND ME“
12. “FEAR GOD“
Guitarist Tim Henson commented:
“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.”
“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.”
“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, demoralized, and completely powerless.
‘BE NOT AFRAID‘ is our response to that. Rather than allowing the ugliness of the world to paralyze 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.”
Guitarist Scott LePage added:
“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.”
A video for the lead single, “POWER IN THE BLOOD,” is available below: