The Silver have announced their sophomore full-length album, Looking Glass Hymnal Blue, due out March 20, 2026 via Gilead Media.
The record expands dramatically on the band's fusion of black metal, post-black atmospherics, and ornate heavy metal grandeur.
More than a collection of songs, Looking Glass Hymnal Blue is conceived as an immersive, ritualistic experience.
Baroque riffing swells with operatic scale, while vicious black metal shrieks from vocalist N.
Duchemin cut through the grandeur with surgical intensity.
The album's first single, "Two Candles," exemplifies this duality.
Opening with eerie choral textures and bass, the track erupts into a storm of tremolo riffing before pivoting into a dramatic heavy metal stomp reminiscent of classic '80s steel, filtered through modern existential dread.
Clean vocals from V intertwine with Duchemin's feral screams, culminating in a deconstructed midsection and a massive, arena-sized crescendo before spiraling back into darkness.
Vocalist V comments on the track: "Two Candles burn, one for each face… It is a shattering of duality, a confrontation with the shadow, and a plea for union and consummation." The band says Looking Glass Hymnal Blue builds directly upon the foundation laid by their 2021 debut Ward Of Roses, but with greater confidence, ambition, and scale.
Lyrically, the album explores fractured identity, internal reflection, and dreamlike suffering.
The artwork and packaging were designed by acclaimed artist Paul Romano, who fully encapsulates the album's unified aesthetic vision.
Looking Glass Hymnal Blue was recorded by the band alongside Richie DeVon in Philadelphia and mixed and mastered by Damian Herring.