Metalcore veterans Demon Hunter have formally introduced their twelfth studio album, There Was A Gentle Right here, set for launch on September 12, 2025, through the band’s unbiased label, Weapons MFG. Following the conceptual scope of 2022’s Exile, the upcoming file continues to push boundaries with a deeply private tribute to frontman Ryan Clark‘s late mom, serving as an emotional exploration of affection, loss, and the duality of sunshine and darkness.
Preorders for There Was A Gentle Right here at the moment are stay, with CDs, limited-edition vinyl variants, and cassettes accessible solely by way of the band’s official retailer. The album spans 12 emotionally charged tracks, mixing Demon Hunter‘s signature depth with moments of melodic vulnerability. Manufacturing duties have been dealt with by Clark and guitarist Jeremiah Scott, with mixing and mastering by famend producer Zeuss (Rob Zombie, Hatebreed, Suffocation), aside from the title observe, which was blended by Eric Stenman (Deftones, Thrice, AWOLNATION).
Within the lead-up to the album’s launch, Demon Hunter has already dropped three singles — “I am Completed,” “Gentle Bends,” and “Sorrow Gentle The Approach” — every accompanied by visually arresting music movies. The response has been overwhelmingly constructive, with “Sorrow Gentle The Approach” breaking into YouTube Music’s High 50 Steel Movies, debuting among the many high 20 lively releases.
Rising in 2002, Demon Hunter has helped outline the panorama of contemporary metalcore with 9 Billboard 200 entries, six High 5 Arduous Rock Albums, and two No. 1 Impartial Albums. Their 2022 album Exile debuted at No. 3 on the Present Arduous Music and Impartial Albums charts, and No. 9 total in U.S. Album Gross sales. With a YouTube viewers exceeding 600,000 month-to-month listeners, the band stays an important and influential drive.
Including to the thrill, 4 uncommon Demon Hunter tracks — “I Align,” “THE BRINK,” “Some Of Us,” and “Worlds Aside” — will probably be pressed on 7″ vinyl for the primary time later this yr as a part of Z2 Comics’ deluxe graphic novel version of the Exile four-issue sequence.
The band will hit the highway this fall for the There Was A Gentle Right here U.S. Tour, with a strong assist lineup together with Battle Of Ages, Convictions, and Cultists. As well as, Demon Hunter is about to carry out at main rock festivals Louder Than Life in Louisville and Aftershock in Sacramento, additional solidifying their place on the forefront of the heavy music scene.
The tour launches on September 19 in Louisville, KY with a efficiency on the huge Louder Than Life Pageant, and wraps up on October 11 on the Brooklyn Bowl in Nashville, TN, providing followers throughout the nation an opportunity to expertise Demon Hunter‘s signature mix of melodic aggression and religious depth. Get your tickets right here.
9/19 Louisville, KY Louder Than Life
9/20 West Chicago, IL WC Social Membership
9/21 Minneapolis, MN The Cabooze
9/23 Des Moines, IA Wooly’s
9/24 Springfield, MO The Riff
9/25 Oklahoma Metropolis, OK Beer Metropolis Music Corridor
9/26 Austin, TX Come and Take It Reside
9/27 San Antonio, TX The Rock Field
9/28 Dallas, TX The Granada Theater
9/30 Mesa, AZ The Nile Theater
10/1 San Diego, CA Brick By Brick
10/2 Pomona, CA The Glass Home
10/3 San Jose, CA The Ritz | San Jose
10/4 Sacramento, CA Aftershock
10/5 Seattle, WA El Corazon
10/6 Boise, ID Shrine Social Membership
10/7 Salt Lake Metropolis, UT Metro Music Corridor
10/8 Denver, CO HQ
10/9 Lawrence, KS The Granada
10/10 St. Louis, MO Purple Flag
10/11 Nashville, TN Brooklyn Bowl | Nashville
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