Sacred Reich’s first new album in 6 years is coming in August 2025.
On December 31, the band’s bassist/vocalist Phil Rind shared the band’s recording plans in a New Year’s Eve post, saying, “Bring on 2025! We are headed into the studio to record a new record. We are planning for a late August release. We can’t wait for you to hear it.”
He revealed, “Lots of touring in the works with some killer bands. Looking forward to getting back out on the road in ’25 & ’26 after spending most of the last year working on new music.”
“We hope you all have a killer New Years and we’ll see you on tour in 2025! Wishing everyone a happy and healthy new year filled with peace and love,” Rind concluded his message.
Sacred Reich’s latest record ‘Awakening’ was released in 2019. In June 2023, the group’s guitarist Wiley Arnett told The Meista – Brews & Tunes about the progress on the next album, “It’s been an amazing process. We didn’t do a record for a long time for several reasons, but one of the biggest is the well-had kind of run dry.”
He continued, “We lean hard on Phil for a lot of the writing — a hundred percent of the lyrics and almost as much music. And if he’s not feeling it or inspired, then there’s really nothing for us to say. And after a long time sitting away and then coming back and starting to do the reunion shows, we got a taste of it again.”
“And then a crazy world — our kids are getting older, moving out, graduating high school. It was easy to talk yourself out of getting busy in a band over the years. So between a lack of inspiration, no new ideas and a sense of, ‘We should be at home doing important stuff,’ we definitely did part for a while,” Arnett explained.
Sacred Reich is scheduled to perform at Milwaukee Metal Fest on May 18 and at the South of Heaven Festival on June 7.
