Biffy Clyro has announced details of a new album – The Myth of the Happily Ever After which is due out next month.

Following on from their headline sets at Reading & Leeds 2021, Biffy has revealed that their ninth album will be released on October 22. The record is being billed as “a reaction” to the band’s 2020s A Celebration Of Endings, and has been announced on September 3 by the six-minute first single “Unknown Male”.

“Unknown Male” is a track that explores themes of loss. The track runs at six minutes long starting with a focus on Neil’s vocals and simple yet emotional instrumentation. There is a sombre mood to the song as the singer’s soft vocals beautifully combine with a church-like organ. A clean guitar riff is occasionally included in the mix but remains mostly subdued in the beginning. The song then proceeds to turn into a very riff-heavy rock explosion.

In a press release, the group stated “This album is a real journey, a collision of every thought and emotion we’ve had over the past eighteen months. There was a real fortitude in ‘A Celebration’ but in this record we’re embracing the vulnerabilities of being a band and being a human in this twisted era of our lives. Even the title is the polar opposite. It’s asking, do we create these narratives in our own minds to give us some security when none of us know what’s waiting for us at the end of the day?”

You can see their new album’s cover art below.

Biffy Clyro recorded the project in a very different way than how they usually would. They recorded for only six weeks in their rehearsal room in a farmhouse that is closer to their homes.

The trio went in with the intention to complete some of their unfinished songs from their last record but instead The Myth of the Happily Ever After took over as it started to take shape in late 2020, with everything written and recorded within a ten-mile radius. Traditionally, most of Biffy songs have been written in Scotland before the band head to London or Los Angeles for recording,

The Myth of the Happily Ever After Tracklist:

1. DumDum
2. A Hunger in Your Haunt
3. Denier
4. Separate Missions
5. Witch’s Cup
6. Holy Water
7. Errors in the History of God
8. Haru Urara
9. Unknown Male 01
10. Existed
11. Slurpy Slurpy Sleep Sleep