Through Storms Ahead

Through Storms Ahead is As I Lay Dying's eighth studio album, released on 15 November 2024 as the band's first record for Napalm Records and its first album since Shaped By Fire. It was recorded by singer Tim Lambesis; guitarist Phil Sgrosso, who first joined in 2003 and had been part of the 2018 reunion; and three musicians recruited in 2022: bassist Ryan Neff of Miss May I, who also sings the clean vocals here, and two former members of Unearth, guitarist Ken Susi and drummer Nick Pierce. Sgrosso produced the album with Hiram Hernandez; Aaron Chaparian mixed it, Ted Jensen mastered it, and Corey Meyers again supplied the artwork. The eleven tracks open with "Permanence", a guitar-led introduction that runs into "A Broken Reflection". On "We Are The Dead" the band is joined by Alex Terrible of Slaughter to Prevail and Tom Barber of Chelsea Grin and Darko, and Sgrosso presented the song as the album's more brutal, thrash-leaning side. Songs reached listeners over six months before the release: "Burden" in May 2024, "The Cave We Fear To Enter" in July, "We Are The Dead" with the album's announcement in September, "Whitewashed Tomb" in October and "The Void Within" in November. The album did not enter the Billboard 200; it reached No. 43 on Top Current Album Sales on the chart dated 30 November 2024, and in the UK it reached No. 33 on the Official Rock & Metal Albums Chart and No. 50 on the Official Album Downloads Chart. In Japan, Marquee Avalon issued the album on 20 November 2024 as MICP-11900, with the same eleven tracks.