Dead Poet Society today release their highly anticipated new album, Monarch, via Spinefarm. Alongside the full album’s release, the band has unveiled a new collection of visualizers to accompany each track that did not previously receive an official music video.
Continuing the visual language surrounding Monarch and the previously released videos for “Cold,” “Roach” and “Sinner Systems,” the new visualizers further expand the album artwork and give each song its own visual identity.
The SoCal-based band, who venture out on a co-headlining tour with Honey’s Revenge on Oct. 23, will now join Muse from Nov. 12 through Dec. 8, for a trek across the UK and Europe, resuming their U.S. tour on Dec. 11. The band returns to the UK and Europe in 2027. Tickets for all dates are available via Wearedps.com.
Produced by Mutemath frontman Paul Meany (Twenty One Pilots, Pierce The Veil), Monarch has been widely praised with Revolver saying it is “tense and knotted with danceable dread,” Kerrang! describing the songs as “seething,” and Consequence hailing the tracks as a “glorious success.”
“We wanted to carve out our own piece of territory,” says vocalist and guitarist Jack 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.”
Monarch is available 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.
January 31 Dublin, IE The Academy, Middle Abbey Street
February 2 Glasgow, UK The Garage
February 3 Manchester, UK Academy 2
February 4 Birmingham, UK O2 Institute Birmingham
February 6 Camden, UK Electric Ballroom
February 9 Antwerp, BE Trix
February 10 Utrecht, NL TivoliVredenburg
February 12 Munich, DE Technikum
February 13 Winterthur, CH Salzhaus
February 14 Milan, IT Legend 54
February 16 Budapest, HU Akvárium Klub
February 18 Vienna, AT Simm City
February 19 Warsaw, PL Proxima
February 21 Prague, CZ MeetFactory
February 23 Berlin, DE Metropol
February 24 Cologne, DE Essigfabrik
February 26 Hamburg, DE Gruenspan
February 28 Copenhagen, DK Pumpehuset
March 2 Oslo, NO John Dee
March 3 Stockholm, SE Debaser Hornstulls Strand
March 5 Helsinki, FI Tivistämö
*=w/Muse
Photo credit: Darren Craig
Dead Poet Society is Jack Underkofler (lead vocals, guitar, keyboards), Jack Collins (guitar, backing vocals, drum programming, keyboards), Dylan Brenner (bass, additional guitars), and Will Goodroad (drums). The Los Angeles-based band have released a pair of albums, 2024’s FISSION, and their 2021 debut, -!-. Kerrang! described their music as “fuzzed-up alt.rock” with “swaggering confidence,” New Noise awarded FISSION a perfect 5-star score, and Rolling Stone France dubbed it “explosive.” The band’s new album, Monarch, it out now via Spinefarm Records.