Shadows Fall’s Big Comeback Single Will Be Out December 6

It’s been 12 years since the world saw any new material from Shadows Fall. They’ve been playing shows again for three years now, but the band have been taking their sweet time coming up with any new music. The band made their first announcement back in May 2023 that they had started working on new music, and then last December they confirmed that they were writing with “no record label pressure” so they were taking their time to get things right. Well now we finally have what we’ve been waiting for all this time. We finally have a brand new Shadows Fall song…coming on December 6. Sorry, did you think I was going to say the new song had arrived? Maybe I shouldn’t have phrased it like that. We don’t have a new Shadows Fall song, we have something much less exciting.

In a recent interview with Shadows Fall vocalist Brian Fair for the Sultans of Slack podcast from Aftershock Festival (that was transcribed by Blabbermouth), Fair talked about the band’s plans for the immediate future:

“Yeah, man, we’re finally kinda back playing shows. We’re still not touring full time, but we got an anniversary show for the 20th anniversary of [SHADOWS FALL’s fourth album, 2004’s] ‘The War Within’, which is insane that it was 20 years ago. So we’re gonna be playing the whole album at the Worcester Palladium in Massachusetts on December 21st. And we’re gonna be dropping a new song December 6th. And that’s all the details I got about it. I can’t say anything else about it. Except December 6th, new tune coming at you from SHADOWS FALL. Super stoked. So, yep. You heard it first. That’s the first time I said the date. So it’s coming at you.”

Getting the announcement of the date the song comes out is not nearly as interesting or as fun as actually getting the song. This is kind of a boring way to roll out new music. But hopefully, once December 6 rolls around, the wait will turn out to be worth it.