Beartooth have set their sixth album, Pure Ecstasy, on a release date of August 28.
The band's new record marks their first with Fearless Records and finds frontman Caleb Shomo pushing Beartooth further than ever before across 11 massive tracks that channel both the chaos and clarity of hard-won personal growth.
A new single, “Bullshit”, has been released alongside the announcement, following previously shared tracks “Pure Ecstasy” and “Free”.
The song arrives as anticipation continues to build around Pure Ecstasy, with Shomo stating: ““Bullshit’ is a familiar song I’ve written many times.
I wanted to revisit the musical style that was the catalyst of so much healing and discovery in my earlier years of Beartooth.
It’s an exercise in letting the truth out about what you’re sick of in your own life.
Sometimes the easiest way to deal with something is to yell about it as loud as you can.” Pure Ecstasy follows the chart-dominating success of 2023’s The Surface – which debuted at No.
1 on Billboard’s Alternative and Hard Music charts and produced the No.
1 rock radio hits “Might Love Myself” and “I Was Alive”.
With the album's first single “Free”, Beartooth introduced this next chapter with towering hooks and radical self-examination, marking Shomo reckoning with both the darkest and brightest parts of himself in real time.
The band has been working with new label home Fearless Records and their collaborative spirit continued throughout the recording process as well: bassist Oshie Bichar, guitarists Zach Huston and Will Deely, and drummer Connor Denis all played larger roles than ever before.
The album marks Beartooth's first release where Shomo did not perform every instrument himself.
A full tracklist for Pure Ecstasy includes “Eyes Closed”, “Bullshit”, “Beautiful Again”, “Stadiums”, “Free”, “Sorry”, “Lose You To Find Me”, “You”, “For Me By Me”, and “Made It”.
Beartooth has sold out tours and a recent run supporting Bad Omens on their arena tour, with their rise mirroring the growing mainstream dominance of modern heavy music itself.