Kris Barras Band have shared a new single, ‘Unspoken’, taken from their forthcoming album Monsters We Made, due on 14 August 2026 via Earache Records. The track arrives with a lyric video.
Where the campaign’s earlier singles came out swinging, ‘Unspoken’ deliberately pulls back. It is the softer, more vulnerable side of a record that is otherwise built on hard rock riffage, and Barras rates it among his proudest moments on the album. “This track is one of my favourites, if not the favourite, track from the new album,” he says. “Both single releases so far have been pretty full-on, heavier tracks, and I don’t feel that they necessarily give the whole picture of what is to come.”
He frames the song as something close to a ballad with real emotional weight. “‘Unspoken’ brings about a bit of balance, being a bit more reserved and almost ballad-like. It’s about the battle between silence and expression. The struggle to let people know how you really feel, fighting through isolation and emotional pain while struggling to express what’s really going on inside.”
Monsters We Made follows 2024’s Halo Effect, which reached the UK top five and topped the official Rock and Metal, Independent and Download charts. By his own admission that record leaned hard into modern metal and nu-metal, and the new album is his correction. “We wanted big singalongs, big riffs, big solos,” he says, describing hard rock built for arenas. Produced by guitarist and keyboardist Josiah Manning, with bassist Frazer Kerslake and drummer Billy Hammett completing the Devon lineup, it runs to eleven tracks.
The release also follows a genuine scare. After pushing through illness on this year’s European run with the Smith/Kotzen project, Barras did serious damage to his vocal cords and had to leave the tour on doctor’s orders. He reports being fully recovered and “singing better than ever.”
Kris Barras Band return to the road in October for their first UK headline tour in almost two years, with 10 Years in support. We have always valued how Barras refuses to stand still, and ‘Unspoken’ shows there is real heart beneath the muscle.
