Wage War are keeping their foot firmly on the accelerator in 2026, announcing their new album ‘Landfall’, due digitally October 9 via Fearless Records.
The announcement follows the Florida metalcore heavyweights’ ‘It Calls Me By Name’ EP, released earlier this year, and arrives alongside the album’s title track. ‘Landfall’ opens with an ominous emergency broadcast alarm before Briton Bond, Cody Quistad, Seth Blake, Chris Gaylord and Stephen Kluesener send it hurtling into considerably heavier territory.
There is plenty of muscle here, but Wage War have not abandoned the melodic tension that has become an increasingly important part of their sound. Bond’s screams drive the song’s heavier passages while Quistad’s clean vocals pull the chorus in a more sombre direction, creating a push and pull between brute force and melody.
The band’s Florida roots provide the central metaphor. Hurricanes and the threat of landfall become a way of exploring imminent danger, helplessness and that uncomfortable moment when it becomes clear that whatever is coming cannot be controlled. The verses carry that sense of approaching threat, while the chorus shifts towards resignation rather than escape.
It is a fitting premise for a band continuing to test how far it can stretch the extremes of its sound. Following ‘It Calls Me By Name’, ‘Landfall’ suggests Wage War are leaning harder into both ends of the equation, making the heavy sections hit harder while giving the melodies more space to land.
‘Landfall’ arrives digitally on October 9 via Fearless Records.
