A lot has changed in the six years since Liverpool based alternative quartetLoathereleased their seismic sophomore albumI Let It In And It Took Everything. An album that not only changed the course of their careers but changed the course of heavy music at large, its success has seen the band sell out tours globally both in arenas as support for legendary legacy acts and as demand-stealing headliners in their own right, alongside priority placements on festival stages worldwide. As a statement, the album drew a line in the sand as a forebearer for the wave of expansive, atmospheric heavy music that continues to permeate the mainstream to this day. Six years later, Loathe are ready to upend the conventions of contemporary metal once again with their long awaited third album,A Stranger To You.
Due for release on July 17th 2026, the album takes the formula that the band helped to build for modern alternative music and reshapes it; crafting a brand new world that integrates disparate global influences to confound listeners and sharpen the senses. Easily the band’s most sonically adventurous work to date, each moment has been designed to ensure that the six year space between releases has been more than worth the wait, with the familiar Loathe sonic palette expanded by hypnotic shades of psychedelia, immersive synth tapestries, genuinely unique percussive patterns, and an attitude to sound design that setsA Stranger To Youapart from all contemporaries. With expectation and hope around the release reaching an all-time high, it would’ve been simple for Loathe to take the easy route and recreate the winning formula from their last release. Instead,A Stranger To Youis 14 tracks of staggeringly complex, but rewarding beyond all measure alternative music that will leave the listener uncovering layers of artistic brilliance long after the first play.
Following on from last year’s epic single‘Gifted Every Strength’, Loathe today unveil the second taste ofA Stranger To Youin the form of new single and video,‘Revenant’. Already a live favourite that has caused devastation across multiple continents, ‘Revenant’ opens to glistening waves of synth, before descending into a low-slung, rhythmic display of power. Vocalist Kadeem France’s vocals shred through the track’s shapeshifting arrangement; at one moment parallel with elements of funk, before metamorphosing into an exhibition of the band’s individual musical excellence that has the power to rewire the consciousness. FeaturingNOWHERE2RUNandCode Orange’sJami MorganandEric “Shade” Balderose, ‘Revenant’ is a defiant, singular statement from one of global alternative music’s most uncategorisable bands – a band that’s ready to unleash one of the year’s most surprising and sonically enriching albums.
A Stranger To Youis, in many ways, a rarity in today’s single-driven musical landscape, opting to return to the gold standard of a methodically laid out, interconnected track sequence that provides an experience best consumed from start to finish. That experience will be open to all from July 17th; a chance to delve headfirst into the artistic evolution and creative rebirth of Loathe onA Stranger To You, an album that is destined to take its place at the pinnacle of heavy music’s pantheon of generational works.