DEAD POET SOCIETY ANNOUNCE NEW ALBUM 'MONARCH'

OUT OCT. 2 VIA SPINEFARM RECORDS; BAND SHARES NEW SINGLE “COLD” AND ACCOMPANYING VIDEO

Photo credit: Darren Craig

Dead Poet Society release their third album, Monarch, on Oct. 2 via Spinefarm Records. The announcement arrives with the towering new single, “Cold” (https://DeadPoetSociety.lnk.to/Cold), and an accompanying video directed by the band’s own Jack Underkofler, with Blackwolf Imaging.

“People today are constantly performing for one another, competing for a place in social hierarchy,” drummer Will Goodroad shares. “We slowly reshape ourselves, cutting away parts of who we are to gain acceptance and validation. Over time, we lose touch with our passions, forget why we do what we do, and stop recognizing who we really are – or what we truly believe, if anything at all. ‘Cold’ is about recognizing that reality and choosing to indulge in it anyway.”

“Cold” follows the release of “Roach” and “Sinner Systems,” two tracks that offered an early glimpse of Monarch’s balance of weight, melody, and emotional intensity. The new music has drawn swift praise, with Revolver calling it “tense and knotted with danceable dread,” Kerrang! describing the songs as “seething,” and Consequence hailing the tracks as a “glorious success.”

Produced by Mutemath frontman Paul Meany (Twenty One Pilots, Pierce The Veil), mixed by GRAMMY Award-winning Adam Hawkins (Turnstile, Yungblud), and recorded at Valley View Studios and The Park in Los Angeles, Monarch finds Dead Poet Society digging deeper into the instincts that have always defined the band.

"We wanted to carve out our own piece of territory," says vocalist and guitarist Underkofler of the band’s approach to writing Monarch. "I just wanted to swing for the fences with this one. All the things I felt made us, I wanted to see how much deeper I could go with them and try to boil down the essence of the feeling that makes Dead Poet Society who we are.”

The result builds on the foundation established by 2021's -!- and 2024's FISSION, delivering the band's most expansive and emotionally resonant collection yet. It's an album that embraces contrast, weight and melody, vulnerability and defiance, and exploits the tension between them.

Monarch is available for pre-order now (https://deadpoetsociety.lnk.to/Monarch) on multiple limited-edition vinyl variants, including a version featuring an expanded booklet, as well as CD, and digitally.

Arriving alongside today’s album announcement is The House (https://band.fans/thehouse), an interactive world inspired by the Monarch artwork, where a young girl sits ringed by phones. Some fans have already uncovered the first clue: a phone number curiously printed on a piece of merch in the band’s webstore. Fans are invited to stop by for a visit and see what they find.

Monarch track listing:

1.  Hollywood On Fire
2.  Roach
3.  Die If You Don’t
4.  Sinner Systems
5.  Lost
6.  Cold
7.  Psalm 136
8.  Dead On The Inside
9.  Miami For The Weekend
10. Get Hot
11. The Park
12. The Art Of Suffering

Dead Poet Society tour dates:

October 23 San Diego, CA House of Blues
October 24 Las Vegas, NV House of Blues
October 25 Phoenix, AZ Nile Theater
October 27 Dallas, TX House of Blues
October 28 Houston, TX House of Blues
October 30 Ft. Lauderdale, FL Revolution
October 31 Tampa, FL Orpheum
November 2 Nashville, TN Eastside Bowl
November 3 Atlanta, GA Masquerade Heaven
November 5 Brooklyn, NY Warsaw
November 6 Baltimore, MD Soundstage
November 7 Worcester, MA Palladium
November 8 Allentown, PA Archer
November 10 Sayreville, NJ Starland Ballroom
November 11 Cleveland, OH Globe Iron
November 12 Indianapolis, IN Deluxe
November 15 Chicago, IL Concord Music Hall
November 17 Denver, CO Ogden Theatre
November 18 Salt Lake City, UT Rockwell @ The Complex
November 20 Boise, ID Treefort Music Hall
November 21 Portland, OR Roseland Theater
November 22 Seattle, WA The Showbox
November 24 Sacramento, CA Ace of Spades
November 25 Anaheim, CA House of Blues

Tickets for all shows are available now via Wearedps.com. U.S. dates feature a co-headlining bill with Honey Revenge; Hunny and Broadside open.