Modern thrash titans Warbringer – are thrilled to announce their highly anticipated new album + release “A Better World” single

Modern thrash titans WARBRINGER are thrilled to announce their highly anticipated new album, Wrath And Ruin, out March 14, 2025 via Napalm Records. With 20 years of history and millions of cross platform streams in their wake, ’best of the year‘ nods from the likes of Loudwire and Consequence on 2020‘s Weapons Of Tomorrow, and now gearing up for a massive European tour with Decapitated and Cryptopsy this spring, WARBRINGER is poised for their next global assault with their seventh full-length studio release.

Alongside the album announcement, WARBRINGER have unleashed the breakneck speed metal ripper “A Better World”, lambasting ignorant optimism with forked tongue. The track arrives with a high octane official music video.

About the single and video, frontman John Kevill says:

“When I was younger, I used to think the world would only get better during my life. I know now that isn‘t the case. We aren‘t going to fix the environment even though we know the consequences, because profits would decrease, so it‘s not considered possible. On top of that, our societies keep getting more unequal, with a few people owning most everything, and most people just trying to keep their heads above water. We still won‘t feed everyone, but we will fund development of weaponized autonomous drones. Etc etc.

I was reading some social theory stuff (Mark Fisher) some years ago and feeling depressed about my own future in these conditions. I went to a therapist and they basically told me it was all real and legitimate, and that all they could do was give me drugs so I could pretend that I didn‘t know all this. I don‘t really have time to worry too much, because a bunch of bills are always due. I also stopped dreaming for a year or two, which I found scary. I tried to bottle this feeling into ’A Better World‘ – I don‘t think I‘m the only one.

Wrath And Ruin tracklisting:

CD1

1 The Sword And The Cross
2 A Better World
3 Neuromancer
4 The Jackhammer
5 Through A Glass, Darkly
6 Strike From The Sky
7 Cage Of Air
8 The Last of My Kind

CD 2

1 Firepower Kills (Live in Budapest, Hungary – April 7th, 2023)
2 The Black Hand Reaches Out (Live in Budapest, Hungary – April 7th, 2023)
3 Crushed Beneath the Tracks (Live in Nantes, France – April 20th, 2023)
4 Living Weapon (Live in Budapest, Hungary – April 7th, 2023)
5 Woe to the Vanquished (Live in Budapest, Hungary – April 7th, 2023)
6 Living in a Whirlwind (Live in Budapest, Hungary – April 7th, 2023)
7 Guitar Solo/ Outer Reaches (Live in Nantes, France – April 20th, 2023)
8 Shellfire (Live in Munich, Germany – April 5th, 2023
9 Descending Blade (Live in Krakow, Poland – April 4th, 2023)
10 Hunter-Seeker (Live in Krakow, Poland – April 4th, 2023)
11 Defiance of Fate (Live in Budapest, Hungary – April 7th, 2023)
12 Silhouettes (Live in Nantes, France – April 20th, 2023)
13 Remain Violent (Live in Budapest, Hungary – April 7th, 2023)
14 Combat Shock (Live in Budapest, Hungary – April 7th, 2023)
15 Total War (Live in Budapest, Hungary – April 7th, 2023)