Pure Reason Revolution

The progressive alternative rock group PURE REASON REVOLUTION returns with its new album "Terrifying Angels", its fourth since its comeback to the forefront in 2019. The album will be released on 25 September 2026, and the band will then embark on a headline tour of the United Kingdom in November 2026. PRR will make its return to the continent in early 2027, with a new tour and a single French date, in Paris.

In line with the somewhat softer, more emotional themes of sadness and transience that permeated the album "Coming up to Consciousness", released in 2024, the sound of this new opus is dark and powerful, rich in savage riffs, unsettling soundscapes and aggressive, grunge-tinged layers of music, all blended, of course, with the transcendent harmonies that are the band's trademark.

For this album, PRR has surrounded itself with major collaborators. Notably, Mariusz Duda (Lunatic Soul) and Kristoffer Gildenlöw, who both played bass on the album, while Bruce Soord (The Pineapple Thief) once again handled the mixing.

The lyrics of the album explore the figure of the angel as a notion combining both salvation and destruction, symbolising situations, feelings and relationships that simultaneously give rise to transcendence and suffering. A terrifying angel is the reversal of expectations: what is presumed to be purely good harbours an unexpected, darker side, inseparable from the light. Love, memory, truth and identity all become, each in its own way, terrifying angels across the seven varied tracks of this album. These immense and historical themes, along with these spectacular images, perfectly complement the imposing grandeur of the music, whose influences include the classic grunge of bands such as Nirvana, the Smashing Pumpkins and Mudhoney.