Wolves At the Gate Announce “Borderland” Album

Wolves at the Gate — Steve Cobucci [clean vocals, guitar]; Ben Summers[bass]; Nick Detty [lead vocals]; Abishai Collingsworth [drums]; and Joey Alarcon [lead guitar] — are thrilled to announce their new album BORDERLAND. It’s a thematic follow up to 2025’s WASTELAND and arrives April 9 via Solid State Records. Pre-order it here.

Today, the band shares the video for new single “FIREWALL.” Watch it here.

The video finds the band in performance mode, knuckling down on their instruments with a ferocity unrivaled.

“Sometimes, the best way to confront the things that make us most uncomfortable is to express them through art,” the band says about the new track. “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.”

Wolves At The Gate cut a winding path through metal, hardcore, alternative, and electronic in order to tell a tale equally suited for the big screen or a series of books. The group’s eighth full-length LP, Borderland focuses the volatility of extremes into a cohesive exploration of doubt, acceptance, grace, belief, and redemption earmarked by moments of catastrophic heaviness, anesthetically heavenly melody, and immersive production.

Over the years, the musicians have only magnified the scope of their sound. The collective’s fanbase burgeoned in the wake of Captors [2012], VxV [2014], Types & Shadows [2016], Eclipse [2019], Eulogies [2022], and Wasteland[2025]—which New Noise Magazine summed up as “powerful.” Beyond further praise from Metal Sucks and more, Blabbermouth put it best, “There’s no denying that Wolves At The Gate is one of the strongest metalcore of their generation, and Wasteland is just the latest example.” Meanwhile, they shared stages with Fit For A King, August Burns Red, Born of Osiris, Silent Planet, Demon Hunter, and Memphis May Fire in addition to performing for packed venues as a headliner. However, their vision deepened as time went by. Wasteland set the stage for a much more expansive narrative continued onBorderland.

“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,” says Cobucci. “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. He had heard the message of ‘The Great Physician’ who welcomes the lost and sick with kindness and love, but finds it hard to believe in a message that appears to be ‘too good to be true.'”

BORDERLAND TRACK LISTING:
“Reality Lost”
“Solar Flare”
“Glitch”
“Letterkills”
“Bloodletting” (Feat. Jake Luhrs)
“Code Fix”
“Firewall”
“Run”
“Twenty Two”
“Hospital For Souls”
“The Willing”
“The End Of Myself”
“Bottomless Sea Of Blood”
“Ghost Letter”