Supralunar's Evolution Leading to New Album

Stockholm hard rock trio Supralunar will release their third full-length album, ‘Dead Come To Dance‘, on February 6^th, 2026 via Supralunatic Records (Digital / CD / LP), following ‘A New Hope‘ (2014), ‘Ghosts‘ (2018) and the ‘Lost & Found‘ EP trilogy (2022).

The album has been a long time coming, not just because of a line-up change, but because the band refused to rush a project that kept getting more inspired the longer they worked on it.

“We like to joke that ‘Dead Come To Dance‘ is our own Chinese Democracy”, says vocalist and guitarist Petri Tuulik.

Much of the record was completed early on, but Supralunar chose to hold the release after parting ways with longtime drummer Johann Enoksson, who appears on most of the tracks. What followed was a year-long search for a new drummer, until Petri happened to scroll past a Facebook clip of a young Japanese drummer, Akane Delle Fave, playing a Rainbow cover with effortless precision. “I literally jumped off the couch and ran to the computer to message her”, Petri recalls. “She liked the band, and when we finally played together it took us about 30 seconds in the rehearsal room to know she was the one”.

Akane had been living in Sweden for just over a year at the time. Her husband initially joined rehearsals as an interpreter, but music proved to be its own language. She has since picked up Swedish, and despite not speaking English, she now contributes backing vocals on several songs. “It was important for us to have Akane represented on the album”, Petri adds. “That meant going back and recording a few more tracks, but it was absolutely worth the delay”. Akane performs on ‘Bit By The Bug‘, ‘Whispers In The Wind‘ and ‘Justice Be Done‘.

Musically, ‘Dead Come To Dance‘ is Supralunar’s broadest album to date and at times their heaviest, with their most detailed studio production so far. When Petri started writing “Picture In Your Head”, he caught “a tiny hint of Def Leppard” in the early sketches, not polish, but playfulness, the idea of dropping little ear-candy moments throughout the arrangements. That spirit ended up shaping the whole record: the band let themselves be big and dramatic whenever the music asked for it. Harmony vocals remain a key Supralunar trademark, with extra sparkle this time thanks to Kristin Nyberg, who lent her voice on the record.

Lyrically, the album leans darker than previous releases. Several songs draw from the tensions of the present, political polarization, global instability, yet Supralunar’s sense of melody and theatrical humour remains intact.