For Immediate Release                          

“Cold” video, directed by Jack Underkofler and Blackwolf Imaging

Aug. 6, 2026, LOS ANGELES – Dead Poet Society release their third album, Monarch, on Oct. 2 via Spinefarm Records. The announcement arrives with the towering new single, “Cold” (https://DeadPoetSociety.lnk.to/Cold), and an accompanying video directed by the band’s own Jack Underkofler, with Blackwolf Imaging.

“People today are constantly performing for one another, competing for a place in social hierarchy,” drummer Will Goodroad shares. “We slowly reshape ourselves, cutting away parts of who we are to gain acceptance and validation. Over time, we lose touch with our passions, forget why we do what we do, and stop recognizing who we really are – or what we truly believe, if anything at all. ‘Cold’ is about recognizing that reality and choosing to indulge in it anyway.”

“Cold” follows the release of “Roach” and “Sinner Systems,” two tracks that offered an early glimpse of Monarch’s balance of weight, melody, and emotional intensity. The new music has drawn swift praise, with Revolver calling it “tense and knotted with danceable dread,” Kerrang! describing the songs as “seething,” and Consequence hailing the tracks as a “glorious success.”

Produced by Mutemath frontman Paul Meany (Twenty One Pilots, Pierce The Veil), mixed by GRAMMY Award-winning Adam Hawkins (Turnstile, Yungblud), and recorded at Valley View Studios and The Park in Los Angeles, Monarch finds Dead Poet Society digging deeper into the instincts that have always defined the band.

“We wanted to carve out our own piece of territory,” says vocalist and guitarist Underkofler of the band’s approach to writing Monarch. “I just wanted to swing for the fences with this one. All the things I felt made us, I wanted to see how much deeper I could go with them and try to boil down the essence of the feeling that makes Dead Poet Society who we are.”

The result builds on the foundation established by 2021’s -!- and 2024’s FISSION, delivering the band’s most expansive and emotionally resonant collection yet. It’s an album that embraces contrast, weight and melody, vulnerability and defiance, and exploits the tension between them.

Monarch is available for pre-order now (https://deadpoetsociety.lnk.to/Monarch) on multiple limited-edition vinyl variants, including a version featuring an expanded booklet, as well as CD, and digitally.

Arriving alongside today’s album announcement is The House (https://band.fans/thehouse), an interactive world inspired by the Monarch artwork, where a young girl sits ringed by phones. Some fans have already uncovered the first clue: a phone number curiously printed on a piece of merch in the band’s webstore. Fans are invited to stop by for a visit and see what they find.

Monarch album cover

Monarch track listing:

1.        Hollywood On Fire

2.        Roach

3.        Die If You Don’t

4.        Sinner Systems

5.        Lost

6.        Cold

7.        Psalm 136

8.        Dead On The Inside

9.        Miami For The Weekend

10.  Get Hot

11.  The Park

12.  The Art Of Suffering

Dead Poet Society tour dates:

October 23 San Diego, CA House of Blues

October 24 Las Vegas, NV House of Blues

October 25 Phoenix, AZ Nile Theater

October 27 Dallas, TX House of Blues

October 28 Houston, TX House of Blues

October 30 Ft. Lauderdale, FL Revolution

October 31 Tampa, FL Orpheum

November 2 Nashville, TN Eastside Bowl

November 3 Atlanta, GA Masquerade Heaven

November 5 Brooklyn, NY Warsaw

November 6 Baltimore, MD Soundstage

November 7 Worcester, MA Palladium

November 8 Allentown, PA Archer

November 10 Sayreville, NJ Starland Ballroom

November 11 Cleveland, OH Globe Iron

November 12 Indianapolis, IN Deluxe

November 15 Chicago, IL Concord Music Hall

November 17 Denver, CO Ogden Theatre

November 18 Salt Lake City, UT Rockwell @ The Complex

November 20 Boise, ID Treefort Music Hall

November 21 Portland, OR Roseland Theater

November 22 Seattle, WA The Showbox

November 24 Sacramento, CA Ace of Spades

November 25 Anaheim, CA House of Blues

January 21 Lisboa, PT LAV – Lisboa Ao Vivo

January 23 Madrid, ES Wagon

January 24 Barcelona, ES Razzmatazz 2

January 26 Paris, FR Alhambra

January 28 Bristol, UK Electric Bristol

January 29 Newcastle Upon Tyne, UK Digital

January 31 Dublin, IE The Academy, Middle Abbey Street

February 2 Glasgow, UK The Garage

February 3 Manchester, UK Academy 2

February 4 Birmingham, UK O2 Institute Birmingham

February 6 Camden, UK Electric Ballroom

February 9 Antwerp, BE Trix

February 10 Utrecht, NL TivoliVredenburg

February 12 Munich, DE Technikum

February 13 Winterthur, CH Salzhaus

February 14 Milan, IT Legend 54

February 16 Budapest, HU Akvárium Klub

February 18 Vienna, AT Simm City

February 19 Warsaw, PL Proxima

February 21 Prague, CZ MeetFactory

February 23 Berlin, DE Metropol

February 24 Cologne, DE Essigfabrik

February 26 Hamburg, DE Gruenspan

February 28 Copenhagen, DK Pumpehuset

March 2 Oslo, NO John Dee

March 3 Stockholm, SE Debaser Hornstulls Strand

March 6 Helsinki, FI Tivistämö

Tickets for all shows are available now via Wearedps.com. U.S. dates feature a co-headlining bill with Honey Revenge; Hunny and Broadside open.

Photo credit: Darren Craig

Dead Poet Society is Jack Underkofler (lead vocals, guitar, keyboards), Jack Collins (guitar, backing vocals, drum programming, keyboards), Dylan Brenner (bass, additional guitars), and Will Goodroad (drums). The Los Angeles-based band have released a pair of albums, 2024’s FISSION, and their 2021 debut, -!-. Kerrang! described their music as “fuzzed-up alt.rock” with “swaggering confidence,” New Noise awarded FISSION a perfect 5-star score, and Rolling Stone France dubbed it “explosive.” The band’s new album, Monarch, arrives Oct. 2 via Spinefarm Records.

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