POLYPHIA announces new album 'Be Not Afraid', shares single 'Power In The Blood'
27-08-2026
Genre-defying instrumental rock innovators POLYPHIA will release their fifth full-length studio album, “Be Not Afraid”, on October 23 via Rise Records. The official music video for the latest single off the record, “Power In The Blood”, is now released. Filmed in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, the clip finds the band playing against the ornate, gold-leaf Baroque backdrops from the São Francisco da Penitência Church. The powerful visual lays the foundation for what’s to come off the new record, directed by Caleb Young.
Watch “Power In The Blood” below.
Earlier this year, POLYPHIA teased their new chapter with the release of their first single in over four years, “Can You Feel It”. Pushing boundaries in ways the band never has before with a hybrid of metal and dance music, their music video showcased an electrifying performance by the band amidst a crowd of fans.
Watch the previously released “Can You Feel It” below.
“Instead of going wide on ‘Be Not Afraid’, we went as deep as we could,” guitarist Tim Henson shares. “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.”
“We physically can’t make the same album twice,” adds guitarist Scott LePage. “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.”
When speaking on the album, Henson adds, “The album takes you through the extremes of two different worlds / moods: one being very uplifting and triumphant, the other being spine-chilling and terrifying. There are moments on the record that legitimately scare me when I listen to them.”
“During the making of this record, we went down some pretty dark rabbit holes. We kept coming across things that were so depraved they sounded insane when you said them out loud. Then some of the very things we had been talking about started appearing in documents released to the public. You can read that stuff and feel disgusted, demoralized, and completely powerless. ‘Be Not Afraid’ is our response to that. Rather than allowing the ugliness of the world to paralyze us, we put everything we had into making something beautiful. We weren’t afraid of whether something was too different or whether people were going to understand it. We just followed what excited us and made what I believe is our best record to date.”
“Be Not Afraid” track listing:
01. Let There Be Light
02. With Eyes To See
03. Screwtape
04. Power In The Blood
05. They Know Not What They Do
06. Mark Of The Beast
07. Can You Feel It
08. Near Death
09. J-Bomb
10. Deny The Flesh
11. Devil Get Behind Me
12. Fear God
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