Ultrapower

Ultrapower, the seventh album, came out on 2 February 2024 and gathers five years of writing. Josh Schroeder produced — the man behind Lorna Shore and King 810 records — and John Simon Fallon came in on guitar. The record exists on its listeners' money: they ran a Kickstarter and slipped into the 30K tier, and by the band's account that support gave them the ability to continue as an independent band. What is on it is omnivorous. "Circle of Evil" is a Malmsteen-shaped runner about secret societies; "Blood Magic" borrows from King Diamond and is, structurally, their most progressive song; "City Calling" is an ode to 1987 that leans toward Toto and Kenny Loggins; "Live to Fight Another Day" is their first synthwave track — they had always liked it, they said, and never had the guts to try it. On the lyrics the band are direct: montage songs for films that do not exist, and songs about their own spiralling serfdom. It brought a third consecutive JUNO nomination, alongside Devin Townsend and Spiritbox.