Polyphia announce new album “BE NOT AFRAID” – new single with video out now

Polyphia, a contemporary prog rock band, chose the title “BE NOT AFRAID” for their fifth studio album, as per theprp. The video for the song “POWER IN THE BLOOD” from that release was recently published by the virtuoso instrumental group. It was shot at the São Francisco da Penitción Church in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. This album was produced during recording sessions in Miami, Florida, Los Angeles, California, and Dallas, Texas. Tim Henson, Scott LePage, and their soon-to-be tourmate RJ Pasin and Spiro Dussias co-produced the album. Regarding the creative process for this new project, which Rise Records will release on October 23rd, Henson himself had the following to say.

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. 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.

Scott LePage offered this instead:

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.

Tim Henson added:

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.

Tracklist:

1. LET THERE BE LIGHT
2. WITH EYES TO SEE
3. SCREWTAPE
4. POWER IN THE BLOOD
5. THEY KNOW NOT WHAT THEY DO
6. MARK OF THE BEAST
7. CAN YOU FEEL IT
8. NEAR DEATH
9. J-BOMB
10. DENY THE FLESH
11. DEVIL GET BEHIND ME
12. FEAR GOD

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With Ladrones & RJ Pasin:

• Saturday, September 05, 2026 – South Side Ballroom, Dallas, TX, US
• Tuesday, September 08, 2026 – Revel Entertainment Center, Albuquerque, NM, US
• Thursday, September 10, 2026 – Hollywood Palladium, Los Angeles, CA, US
• Saturday, September 12, 2026 – House of Blues, Anaheim, CA, US
• Sunday, September 13, 2026 – The Masonic, San Francisco, CA, US
• Wednesday, September 16, 2026 – The Union Event Center, Salt Lake City, UT, US
• Friday, September 18, 2026 – JUNKYARD, Denver, CO, US
• Sunday, September 20, 2026 – Vibrant Music Hall, Waukee, IA, US
• Monday, September 21, 2026 – Landmark Credit Union Live, Milwaukee, WI, US
• Tuesday, September 22, 2026 – The Armory, Minneapolis, MN, US
• Thursday, September 24, 2026 – The Factory, Chesterfield, MO, US
• Friday, September 25, 2026 – Aragon Ballroom, Chicago, IL, US
• Saturday, September 26, 2026 – The Fillmore, Detroit, MI, US
• Monday, September 28, 2026 – GLC Live at 20 Monroe, Grand Rapids, MI, US
• Tuesday, September 29, 2026 – Great Canadian Casino, Toronto, ON, Canada – with Intervals
• Thursday, October 01, 2026 – L’Olympia, Montreal, QC, Canada – with Intervals
• Saturday, October 03, 2026 – MGM Music Hall at Fenway, Boston, MA, US
• Monday, October 05, 2026 – Brooklyn Paramount, Brooklyn, NY, US
• Wednesday, October 07, 2026 – Toyota Oakdale Theatre, Wallingford, CT, US
• Thursday, October 08, 2026 – Echostage, Washington, DC, US
• Saturday, October 10, 2026 – The Fillmore, Philadelphia, PA, US
• Sunday, October 11, 2026 – The Dome by Rutter Mills, Virginia Beach, VA, US
• Tuesday, October 13, 2026 – Red Hat Amphitheater, Raleigh, NC, US – with Plini
• Thursday, October 15, 2026 – War Memorial Auditorium, Fort Lauderdale, FL, US
• Friday, October 16, 2026 – Hard Rock Live, Orlando, FL, US
• Saturday, October 17, 2026 – Coca-Cola Roxy, Atlanta, GA, US
• Sunday, October 18, 2026 – The Truth, Nashville, TN, US

With Perturbator & RJ Pasin:

• Wednesday, November 18, 2026 – Halle 622, Zurich, Switzerland
• Thursday, November 19, 2026 – Le Radiant, Lyon, France
• Friday, November 20, 2026 – Interference, Toulouse, France
• Sunday, November 22, 2026 – Razzmatazz, Barcelona, Spain
• Monday, November 23, 2026 – Sala La Riviera, Madrid, Spain
• Wednesday, November 25, 2026 – Alcatraz, Milan, Italy
• Friday, November 27, 2026 – Zenith, Munich, Germany
• Saturday, November 28, 2026 – SaSaZu, Prague, Czechia
• Sunday, November 29, 2026 – Progresja, Warsaw, Poland
• Monday, November 30, 2026 – Haus Auensee, Leipzig, Germany
• Wednesday, December 02, 2026 – Docks, Hamburg, Germany
• Friday, December 04, 2026 – Amager Bio, Copenhagen, Denmark
• Saturday, December 05, 2026 – Tempodrom, Berlin, Germany
• Sunday, December 06, 2026 – Turbinenhalle, Oberhausen, Germany
• Monday, December 07, 2026 – Ancienne Belgique, Brussels, Belgium
• Tuesday, December 08, 2026 – AFAS Live, Amsterdam, Netherlands
• Wednesday, December 09, 2026 – Zénith Paris, Paris, France
• Friday, December 11, 2026 – O2 Academy Birmingham, Birmingham, UK
• Saturday, December 12, 2026 – Manchester Academy, Manchester, UK
• Tuesday, December 15, 2026 – O2 Academy Leeds, Leeds, UK
• Wednesday, December 16, 2026 – O2 Academy Brixton, London, UK