Polyphia have released “With Eyes To See,” the third single from their upcoming fifth full-length album BE NOT AFRAID, out October 23 via Rise Records.
The new track continues the band’s latest chapter with a hypnotic pull, pairing Polyphia’s signature guitar-forward precision with a darker visual world. Its accompanying music video layers surreal, mesmerizing imagery with flashes of destruction and references to redacted Epstein files, grounding the dreamlike presentation in something more unsettling.
“With Eyes To See” follows “Can You Feel It,” Polyphia’s first single in more than four years, and “Power In The Blood,” whose music video was filmed at the São Francisco da Penitência Church in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Together, the singles point toward a record built around contrast, spectacle, and tension.
Throughout 2024 and 2025, Polyphia worked on BE NOT AFRAID in Miami, Los Angeles, and Dallas alongside co-producer RJ Pasin and guitarist Spiro Dussias. Guitarist Tim Henson approached composition differently this time, first singing lines aloud before translating them onto guitar. That process allowed the band to build ideas together in real time and pushed the sessions into more collaborative territory.
The album threads together otherworldly metal, future-facing prog, pulsating house, carefully placed samples, inventive beat work, and the guitar language that has made Henson and Scott LePage two of modern instrumental music’s most recognizable players. This time, the band frames that push and pull through extremes of good and evil.
“The album takes you through the extremes of two different worlds / moods, one being very uplifting and triumphant, the other being spine chilling and terrifying,” Henson said. “There are moments on the record that legitimately scare me when I listen to them.”
Polyphia have spent more than a decade turning instrumental rock into something broader, flashier, and harder to pin down. Since emerging in 2010, the Texas-bred lineup of Henson, LePage, bassist Clay Gober, and drummer Clay Aeschliman has moved across Muse, Renaissance, New Levels New Devils, and Remember That You Will Die, bringing technical guitar music into spaces where prog, metal, trap, pop, and electronic production can collide without feeling like separate parts.
Remember That You Will Die debuted at No. 1 on Billboard’s Top Hard Rock Albums chart and reached the Top 40 of the Billboard 200, further pushing the band beyond the usual boundaries of instrumental rock. The album also helped solidify Polyphia as a group comfortable collaborating across genres, with past work featuring artists including Sophia Black, $NOT, Steve Vai, and Chino Moreno.
With BE NOT AFRAID, Polyphia appear to be leaning even further into that range. The new material does not just extend the band’s technical vocabulary. It gives the songs a more cinematic frame, one where beauty, dread, and motion all seem to be fighting for space inside the same track.
Polyphia will tour the U.K. and Europe this fall with Perturbator and RJ Pasin before launching the North American leg of their world tour in early 2027. The North American run features support from Ladrones and RJ Pasin, with Intervals joining select dates.
BE NOT AFRAID is out October 23 via Rise Records.
Polyphia North American Tour Dates 2027:
- February 5 — Phoenix, AZ — Arizona Financial Theatre
- February 6 — Las Vegas, NV — House of Blues
- February 9 — Los Angeles, CA — Hollywood Palladium
- February 10 — San Diego, CA — SOMA
- February 11 — Anaheim, CA — House of Blues
- February 14 — San Francisco, CA — The Masonic
- February 17 — Seattle, WA — Paramount Theatre
- February 19 — Salt Lake City, UT — The Depot
- February 20 — Denver, CO — The Fillmore Auditorium
- February 23 — Minneapolis, MN — Uptown Theater
- February 24 — Milwaukee, WI — Landmark Credit Union Live
- February 25 — Chicago, IL — Aragon Ballroom
- February 26 — Indianapolis, IN — Egyptian Room at Old National Centre
- February 27 — Detroit, MI — The Fillmore Detroit
- March 2 — Toronto, ON — Great Canadian Toronto
- March 3 — Montreal, QC — L’Olympia
- March 5 — Philadelphia, PA — The Fillmore Philadelphia
- March 6 — Brooklyn, NY — Brooklyn Paramount
- March 7 — Boston, MA — MGM Music Hall at Fenway
- March 9 — Washington, DC — Echostage
- March 10 — Raleigh, NC — The Ritz
- March 12 — Charlotte, NC — The Fillmore Charlotte
- March 13 — Orlando, FL — Hard Rock Live
- March 14 — St. Petersburg, FL — Jannus Live
- March 16 — Atlanta, GA — Coca-Cola Roxy
- March 17 — Birmingham, AL — Avondale Brewing Company
- March 18 — Nashville, TN — The Truth
- March 20 — Dallas, TX — South Side Ballroom
Polyphia UK and Europe Tour Dates 2026:
- November 18 — Zurich, CH — Halle 622
- November 19 — Lyon, FR — Le Radiant
- November 20 — Toulouse, FR — Interference
- November 22 — Barcelona, ES — Razzmatazz
- November 23 — Madrid, ES — Sala La Riviera
- November 25 — Milan, IT — Alcatraz
- November 27 — Munich, DE — Zenith
- November 28 — Prague, CZ — SaSaZu
- November 29 — Warsaw, PL — Progresja
- November 30 — Leipzig, DE — Haus Auensee
- December 2 — Hamburg, DE — Docks
- December 4 — Copenhagen, DK — Amager Bio
- December 5 — Berlin, DE — Tempodrom
- December 6 — Oberhausen, DE — Turbinenhalle
- December 7 — Brussels, BE — Ancienne Belgique
- December 8 — Amsterdam, NL — AFAS Live
- December 9 — Paris, FR — Zenith Paris
- December 11 — Birmingham, UK — O2 Academy Birmingham
- December 12 — Manchester, UK — Manchester Academy
- December 15 — Leeds, UK — O2 Academy Leeds
- December 16 — London, UK — O2 Academy Brixton
Visit Polyphia’s official site for tickets and more information.
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