SICK JOY release new single

‘Video Game’

New album, ‘More Forever’, due out 30th January 2026

UK/EU album tour starts later this month

Photo: Steve Gullick

Sick Joy have announced the release of their new single ‘Video Game’, offering the latest glimpse into their forthcoming second album More Forever, due out on 30th January 2026.

Produced by the acclaimed Alain Johannes (Queens Of The Stone Age, Chris Cornell, Them Crooked Vultures, Mark Lanegan), the album sees the Brighton-based band pushing into darker and more inward-looking territory. More Forever captures a sense of emotional unrest and release, balancing intensity with vulnerability as it reflects the disorder, release, and paradoxes of modern life.

Speaking about the new single ‘Video Game’, vocalist and guitarist Mykl Barton shares, “It’s a recount of watching another version of myself die. It’s grief. It’s spite. It’s a persistence. It’s moving forward whilst looking back. It’s telling all the secrets I’ve been keeping from myself to the world. It’s whatever the fuck you want it to be.”

SICK JOY – ‘Video Game’ (Official Lyric Video)

In a world increasingly defined by chaos, Sick Joy sharpen their vision through distortion.

The Brighton-based outlet, born from Newcastle’s underground and carried by the raw intensity of singer and multi-instrumentalist Mykl Barton, has always thrived in contrasts: beauty vs. ruin, euphoria vs. despair. More Forever, the new album that’s due out on 30th January 2026 sees Sick Joy push that duality further than ever before.

Recorded in isolation at a remote Spanish studio with Alain Johannes (Queens of the Stone Age, Mark Lanegan, Chris Cornell) before being mixed by Josh “Hoagie” Harrison (Royal Blood, The Cure) and mastered by Katie Tavini, the album twists Sick Joy’s alt-rock DNA into something darker, sharper, and more expansive. Industrial edges cut through widescreen choruses, bruising drums collide with jagged synths, and lyrics confront systemic damage, grief, love and survival with unflinching honesty.

Since their emergence, Sick Joy have become one of the UK’s most vital rock acts — touring with legends like Pixies and Pearl Jam, sharing bills with Dinosaur Pile-Up and Deaf Havana, and igniting festival crowds from Reading & Leeds to 2000 Trees. Their debut album cemented their reputation as a band unafraid to bare teeth and heart in equal measure.

More Forever doesn’t just continue that story – it blows it wide open. Heavier, hungrier, and more human than ever, Sick Joy are stepping forward with their most ambitious statement yet.

MORE FOREVER

TRACK LISTING:

1) Back At The Beginning

6) Gone Missing

7) Here We Are (Somewhere Liminal)

8) Stockholm Flavour

9) Video Game

10) Strawberries & Cigarettes

11) Somebody Else

12) Death Scene (More Forever)

Pre-Order: Sick Joy – More Forever

Stream: Sick Joy – Video Game

To mark the album’s release, Sick Joy will head out on a headline tour across the UK and Europe later this month. The run begins in Birmingham on January 29th and wraps up in Paris on February 20th, with strong demand already seeing the Bristol date sell out.

Full dates below:

SICK JOY ALBUM HEADLINE TOUR:

JANUARY
29 Birmingham Flapper
30 London Oslo
31 Cambridge The Blue Moon

FEBRUARY
3 Exeter Cavern
4 Bristol Exchange (Sold Out)
6 Nottingham Bodega
7 Manchester Deaf Institute
8 Glasgow Hug & Pint
10 Newcastle Zerox
11 Norwich Voodoo Daddys
13 Brighton Dust
18 Amsterdam Cinetol
20 Paris Supersonic