Dead Poet Society release their third studio album, “Monarch”, on October 2nd, 2026, via Spinefarm Records.
The announcement arrives with the towering new single, “Cold”, and an accompanying video directed by the band’s own Jack Underkofler, with Blackwolf Imaging. Watch the video below.
“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 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”, 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.
Pre-order & pre-save here.
Tracklist:
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
US Tour Dates 2026:
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
European & UK Tour Dates 2027:
January 21 Lisboa, PT LAV – Lisboa Ao Vivo
January 23 Madrid, ES Wagon
January 24 Barcelona, ES Razzmatazz 2
January 26 Paris, FR Alhambra
January 28 Bristol, UK Electric Bristol
January 29 Newcastle Upon Tyne, UK Digital
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 6 Helsinki, FI Tivistämö
Tickets for all shows are available here. US dates feature a co-headlining bill with Honey Revenge; Hunny and Broadside open.
Weblinks:
www.wearedps.com
www.facebook.com/deadpoetsocietyband
