Metal
SharpTone Records · 13 November 2026
Six years and two EPs after “Passenger”, California six-piece Kingdom of Giants return to the full-length format with “Usurper”, eleven songs and about forty minutes released on 13 November 2026 through SharpTone Records, the label that also released “Passenger”. That record came out on 16 October 2020, and in between the band released two six-track EPs on the same label: “Bleeding Star” on 20 September 2024 and “Burning Chrome” on 29 August 2025.
Four of the songs were already out. Opener “Respawn” arrived as a single on 3 June and “The Edge Of A Dream” on 31 July; “Reign” hit streaming services on 17 September and “10 Cent Martyr” on 14 October. The only guest is Gabi Rose, on “A Part Of You”. The album closes with “Past Life”.
It’s the band’s fifth full-length, following “Every Wave of Sound” (2013), “Ground Culture” (2014), “All the Hell You’ve Got to Spare” (2017) and “Passenger”. SharpTone is releasing it digitally, on CD and in two coloured vinyl editions.
Text by Roger Estivill