Wolves At The Gate have announced their next album, and it picks up the story right where the last one ended. Wolves At The Gate Borderland is due April 9, 2027, on Solid State Records. It’s the thematic follow-up to 2025’s Wasteland, and the band marked the announcement with an official music video for “Firewall,” which premiered on Solid State’s YouTube channel on Nov. 12.
Wolves At The Gate Borderland release date and pre-orders
The April 9, 2027, release date and the Solid State label are confirmed on the label’s own Solid State Records store, where Wolves At The Gate Borderland pre-orders went live this week. The store lists a CD, a digital download and two vinyl variants, all expected to ship by the release date. The band’s pre-save page also lists the album as “out 4.9.” Check the store for formats and pricing before you order.
“Firewall” is the second song released from the record. The first was “Letterkills,” which came out Sept. 17 as the band’s first new music since Wasteland. Vocalist and guitarist Steve Cobucci co-produced “Letterkills” with Josh Gilbert of Spiritbox (ex-As I Lay Dying), according to Theprp. Production credits for the rest of Wolves At The Gate Borderland haven’t been announced.
What “Firewall” is about
The Ohio Christian metalcore band explained the new song in a joint statement: “For us, ‘Firewall’ deals with the uncomfortable realization that we can’t fix ourselves or erase the most broken parts of who we are. It’s about recognizing that the deepest struggles of our hearts can’t be resolved by looking inward or simply trying harder. Maybe our greatest hope is found in putting our trust in the hands of someone greater than ourselves.”
Cobucci laid out where the larger story is going. “‘Wasteland’ focused on an individual who embraced living selfishly and lawlessly in the pursuit of life shrouded in the justification that the rest of the world lives the same way,” he said. “By the end, he is forced to acknowledge the hopelessness of his pursuit and begins to realize that it’s far more destructive than he thought. So, he leaves the Wasteland, the only world he had known, to seek healing. ‘Borderland’ is the beginning of his journey, but he doesn’t exactly know where to go.”
In Cobucci’s telling, the character has heard the message of “The Great Physician,” who welcomes the lost and sick, but struggles to believe something that seems “too good to be true.” That puts Wolves At The Gate Borderland squarely in the faith-and-struggle territory the band has worked since their early Solid State records. For more on that tradition, see our deep dive into Christian metal.
Borderland track list
Wolves At The Gate Borderland runs 14 tracks. Here is the track list as styled on Solid State’s store, including the stylized titles “[ code fix ]” and “twenty_two.wav”:
- “Reality Lost”
- “Solar Flare”
- “Glitch”
- “Letterkills”
- “Bloodletting” (feat. Jake Luhrs of August Burns Red)
- “[ code fix ]”
- “Firewall”
- “Run”
- “twenty_two.wav”
- “Hospital For Souls”
- “The Willing”
- “The End of Myself”
- “Bottomless Sea of Blood”
- “Ghost Letter”
Luhrs’ guest spot on “Bloodletting” is the only feature named so far. Locally, August Burns Red were on the bill for Underoath’s sold-out Define the Great Line anniversary show at SOMA on Nov. 10.
No tour dates yet
No tour dates were announced with Wolves At The Gate Borderland, and there’s no San Diego show on the books. Their most recent San Diego booking was on Demon Hunter’s Storm the Gates of Hell anniversary show at House of Blues San Diego on Oct. 15, with Bloodlines also on the bill. We’ll update if a 2027 run brings them back to Southern California.
