THE ASTRAL PROPHETS are previewing their debut full-length, Invasion, with the single ‘Power of the Rift,’ available as a lyric video and on Spotify. The Calgary, Alberta band will release the album on October 30, 2026.
The announcement supplied by Asher Media Relations describes an album combining cosmic storytelling, layered symphonic textures, power metal and groove metal. It places particular emphasis on the band's heavier roots, melodic guitar leads and driving drums. Those descriptions accompany a science-fiction concept that extends beyond the album title.
‘Invasion is a roller coaster of an album… themes of anger, retribution, causality, and madness, but also love and longing, conveyed with sci-fi and cosmic overtones,’ the band says.
Alongside ‘Power of the Rift,’ the announcement includes lyric videos for ‘Invasion’ and ‘Into Nothing.’ The singles provide advance material ahead of the full-length release; the current announcement centers on the album rather than establishing a new premiere date for those videos.
THE ASTRAL PROPHETS formed in 2019 through former Scythia members AJ Bergin, Terry Savage and Celine Derval. According to the supplied background, the project began with a desire to move toward heavier, rawer music from their folk-metal origins. Early singles included ‘Firewall,’ ‘USB Humanity’ and ‘Lazerwitch,’ followed by the 2023 EP Anywhere But Here.
The band's science-fiction setting has remained central to that development. ‘The concept and theme of the band are designed around the idea of a not-so-distant, roboto-cratic dystopian future. Space, aliens, techno-organic viruses, the works!’ the band says.
The announcement lists the 2026 lineup as Staci Stardust on vocals, AJ Bergin and Harley D’Orazio on guitars, Terry Savage on bass and Kyle Summers on drums. Invasion brings that lineup to the band's first full-length release, following its earlier singles and EP.
