Evergrey

Gothenburg’s masterminds of melancholia, offer up another outburst of beautiful darkness
and turn their inner fire into something unstoppable: their intense fifteenth album, Architects Of A
New Weave, will be released on June 5, 2026 via Napalm Records, just days before the band takes the
stage as special guest to the undisputed kings of heavy metal, Iron Maiden, for two shows on their Run
For Your Lives World Tour.
This is the wake-up call you didn’t know you needed: a plunge into thinning air, burning worlds, and
lingering guilt—only to break free with fierce momentum. The album refuses to wallow. It ascends—
fast, heavy, and cinematic. But it refuses to hide in the dark. It rises: fast, fierce, and utterly
transformative. Among other exclusive formats, Architects Of A New Weave comes with a bonus
album, containing bonus tracks “Heights” and “One Heart”, as well as an album mix of the previously
released standalone single “OXYGEN!” (2025). Additionally, it features a demo version of “Longing”,
instrumental tracks of “Leaving The Emptiness”, both new songs, as well as a live version of “Falling
From The Sun”, the hit single off the previous record, Theories of Emptiness (2024) and continuation
of “Ominous” off of A Heartless Portrait (The Orphean Testament) (2022).
Dive into Architects Of A New Weave’s standout tracks like “The World is on Fire”, “Leaving The
Emptiness”, “Heaven”, and “The Prophecy”, and the breathtaking title anthem “Architects Of The New
Weave”. Their choruses break through like sunlight piercing storm clouds: enormous, cinematic
melodies that pull you upward, riffs with genuine weight and bite, and vocals dripping with raw,
unflinching truth. In one breath, you’re shouldering buried longing; in the next, you’re weightless,
fearless, endless. Scars transform into badges of survival, fractures fuel reinvention. In the second half
of the album, fellow Gothenburg icon Mikael Stanne (Dark Tranquillity, The Halo Effect, Grand Cadaver,
Cemetery Skyline) joins Tom S. Englund in vocal duties for “A Burning Flame”, the voices of the two
scene legends intertwined compellingly. Architects Of A New Weave was produced by Tom S. Englund
and Vikram Shankar, with a stellar mix by Adam "Nolly" Getgood.
Chaos doesn’t claim victory—you do. You step forward as the weaver, rethreading belief, identity,
connection, and the very shape of tomorrow into something stronger, brighter, unbreakable. This is
melodic, progressive, dark metal at its most massive and intimate: heavy enough to shift mountains,
anthemic enough to make you raise your fist and truly believe it. It carries one unshakable truth
straight to your core: Nothing—not pain, not darkness, not any storm—gets to label you broken. You’re
the power that gathers the fragments and forges real beauty from them. Dream weavers rising.
Architects are stepping up to claim what comes next. If you’ve ever felt that inner tug—quiet or
roaring—to rewrite your story on your own terms, with zero…