Alien Ant Farm

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Alien Ant Farm
Plus Special Guests: Spineshank + South of Salem
Sunday 01 November 2026
Electric Bristol

You might think you know Alien Ant Farm. Think again. Almost a decade after their last album, 2014’s
Always And Forever, the SoCal alt-metal four-piece—vocalist Dryden Mitchell, guitarist Terry Corso,
bassist Timmy P, and drummer Mike Cosgrove—have returned with ~mAntras~. It’s a record that will not
only challenge your preconceptions of the band, but will also firmly reassert their place in world. The
band’s sixth full-length, it was shaped by personal change and growth, and it represents as close to a
new beginning as a band first formed in 1996 can get. At the same time, it’s not a record that dismisses
and disregards the past. Far from it. A record of deep contemplation, ~mAntras~ was born out of various
trials and tribulations—its songs don’t just take the listener on a musical journey, but, as its title
suggests, also on a personal and spiritual one. After such a long time without making new music, there’s
obviously a lot for them to catch up on. As it happens, they’d actually tried to do this earlier. The band
had recorded four of its songs a number of years before—including “Everything She wAnts”, a cover of
the classic Wham! Track that was first released in 2020—but then things kind of stuttered because of the
pandemic.
“When that song first came out,” says Mitchell, “the idea was to just kind of steamroll along and keep it
going, but shit happens. We had a falling out with our producer, and I was personally just drinking and
not really liking where I was in my life. Not to make it sound dramatic, but I felt like I needed to try and
get better, and maybe do that by myself, in a weird way. Usually, you should rely on friends to guide you
through that stuff, but being in a band is a little bit like being in a marriage. I don't know what was
rubbing me the wrong way, and I can't blame the band, but I just felt like I needed to step away for a
second and get my act together. I felt like I was pretty useless to anyone if I wasn't useful to myself. So
we took a break, and I think it was for the best, because it was so much better to have that clarity. It was
very necessary to hit the reset button.”
“There was a lot of shit that happened in those years,” adds Corso. “We obviously had such success at an
early age, and luckily we’re still here. The band has been through some serious adversity, and this album
is the product of that and the soundtrack to it.”
Alien Ant Farm have encountered a lot of that adversity since blowing up in 2001 with two iconic
songs—first their own composition, “Movies”, and then their classic, generation-defining cover of
Michael Jackson’s “Smooth Criminal”—but none more so between the release of Always And Forever
and this record. It’s no surprise, then, that a lot of it has been captured on the 11 tracks that make up
~mAntras~. As Corso puts it: “Growing up, divorce, children, family, death,…