Californian metalcore band As I Lay Dying have concluded tracking their ninth studio album. A new video update shared by the band’s divisive vocalist Tim Lambesis on social media today, September 08th, offered up some word of where the band are at with it. That clip also revealed that a pair of new tracks, “Polarized” and “Retribution“, will be landing on September 15th. Lambesis said of the matter:
“So we finally finished recording the new As I Lay Dying album, and we did 12 songs with the intention of keeping 10. We’ve had a lot of conversations amongst us trying to figure out what those 10 songs are, and we figured we should bring you guys in on the conversation.
So, we’re gonna show you little clips of two songs coming up called ‘Polarized‘ and ‘Retribution‘. Over the next week, we’ll sort of introduce these songs, and then on September 15th, we’ll have both those songs come out fully. And we’ll open up some voting for you guys to tell us, do these polarizing two different ends of the album both belong on the As I Lay Dying album?
‘Polarized‘ is quite a bit more melodic, mid-tempo, a little bit more singing, but still very heavy and driving. And then ‘Retribution‘ is just fast, dark and heavy, no singing at all whatsoever. So those are the two ends of the spectrum. We figured we’d start there, see what you guys thought, and most of the rest of the record lives somewhere in between. But we wanna bring you guys in to just give us your feedback so we can make these final decisions together.”
This ninth full-length offering will be the band’s first with their latest lineup, which Lambesis rebuilt from the ground up in the wake of a highly controversial 2024 implosion.
