Polyphia have announced the details of their new album ‘Be Not Afraid’, the follow-up to 2022’s ‘Remember That You Will Die’.

The record will be released on October 23 via Rise Records.

Guitarist Tim Henson had this to say about what the pursuit of the record was:

“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.

Whilst 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.”

The artwork is astonishing and looks like this:

It will include the previously unleashed ‘Can You Feel It’, as well as the fresh ‘Power In The Blood’.

The latter is a stunning piece of work, to say the least. Classically Polyphia in the way it blends sporadic riffing with trap beats and rhythmic shifts, whilst managing to push the ante even further with bristling bass drops and technically astonishing bouts of exploration.

Have a listen for yourself.