With their brand new album Saferooms & Healing Frequencies, Plume step fully into a world of their own. Blurring the boundaries between modern metal, hyperpop, alternative rock and electronic music, the band deliver a record that feels as emotionally exposed as it is sonically ambitious. Glittering electronics collide with crushing guitars, fractured rhythms and huge melodies, creating a sound that constantly shifts between vulnerability and impact. In celebration, the band have released a brand new video for the track ‘Frankincense’.
At the heart of Saferooms & Healing Frequencies lies the search for safety in a world that rarely stands still. Across the album, Plume explore anxiety, emotional overload, pain and the need to find somewhere to breathe, process and heal. Rather than separating heaviness from beauty, the band allow both to exist side by side, turning moments of fragility into explosive releases and intimate thoughts into towering choruses.
Rising alternative heavy act PLUME return with their striking new single ‘My Cortisol Face’, the final release before their highly anticipated debut album Saferooms & Healing Frequencies arrives on 25th September via Arising Empire.
Blurring the lines between hyperpop shimmer, emotional metalcore and futuristic electronic production, ‘My Cortisol Face’ captures PLUME at their most vulnerable and volatile. Glittering electronics collide with crushing guitars, ethereal clean vocals and piercing screams, creating a track that feels equally fragile, chaotic and euphoric.
Lyrically, the song dives headfirst into anxiety, distorted self perception and the exhausting battle against your own reflection. Images of glitter caught in the throat, ribs beneath paper thin skin and rehearsed smiles paint an unsettling picture of someone desperately trying to maintain the surface while everything underneath begins to fracture. The recurring question of whether this experience is a nightmare or everything they have been dreaming about sits at the emotional core of the track.
That conflict erupts in the chorus, where pain and style become almost inseparable. ‘My Cortisol Face’ transforms inner turmoil into something strangely beautiful, balancing vulnerability with an undeniable sense of attitude and immediacy. As the song builds towards its desperate final moments, repeated questions of whether the pain will ever end underline the feeling of being trapped in an emotional freefall.
The single follows PLUME’s recent releases ‘Digital Waterboarding’, ‘Furious Icon’, ‘Angel Engine’ and ‘A Cure For A Knife’s Blade’, each revealing another side of the band’s rapidly evolving sonic identity. Since signing with Arising Empire earlier this year, the German four piece have continued to establish themselves as one of the most intriguing newcomers in modern alternative heavy music, combining pop sensibility with distorted guitars, synthesizers, fractured rhythms and a visual identity inspired by glam rock and contemporary digital culture.
Fronted by Pascal Pashaee alongside guitarist David Riederer, keyboardist Luka Lorch and drummer Richard Kilian, PLUME approach their music as more than a collection of songs. Their immersive live performances and carefully constructed visual world form an extension of a sound that refuses to sit comfortably within a single genre.
With their debut album Saferooms & Healing Frequencies set for release on 25th September, PLUME are preparing to bring that vision into full focus. The 13 track record represents the next major step for a band increasingly determined to reshape the boundaries between pop, metalcore and forward thinking alternative music.
As the final glimpse of the album before its arrival, ‘My Cortisol Face’ feels like a fitting statement of intent: intimate, dramatic, unpredictable and unapologetically PLUME.
Catch the band live: 19.09.2026 I Le Petit Salon I Lyon 07, France
PLUME return with a vengeance, after their last single caused major shockwaves across the emo and alt community, the Munich based outfit now strike even harder. ‘A Cure For A Knife’s Blade’ is a vicious, neon soaked eruption of distorted pop, glam rock attitude and emotional brutality. It feels like My Chemical Romance circa 2006 reborn for a new generation, but rebuilt through PLUME’s futuristic, glitter in the dirt aesthetic.
The track cuts deep: a soul for salvation bargain, phantom pain, scars that won’t fade, and a Frankenstein self stitched together from heartbreak and rage. Distorted synths, fractured rhythms and PLUME’s signature blend of catchy but uncomfortable hooks turn the song into a twisted anthem of transformation. It’s pop sharpened into a blade, theatrical, dangerous, and impossible to ignore.
After shaking up the scene, PLUME now accelerate their rise: as newcomers at Summer Breeze Open Air, they’re already breaking through with a momentum that feels unstoppable. With ‘A Cure For A Knife’s Blade’, they prove they’re not just reviving emo and alt culture, they’re reinventing it, louder, darker and more glamorous than ever.
Catch the band live: 12.08.2026 – 15.08.2026 | Summer Breeze Open Air | Wittelshofen, DE
With ‘Angel Engine’, rising alternative heavy act PLUME dive deep into paranoia, fractured memories and the desperate search for something to hold onto in the middle of emotional collapse. Blending dark emo metalcore with hyperpop tension, trance-like build ups and massive modern production, the track creates a hypnotic atmosphere that feels both haunting and strangely euphoric.
Driven by eerie imagery and emotionally charged songwriting, ‘Angel Engine’ explores themes of control, fear and the blurred line between salvation and destruction. Lyrics about watching eyes, shifting realities and fading identity paint the picture of a mind slowly unraveling, while the recurring plea for guidance from angelic figures like Uriel and Cassiel adds an almost spiritual weight to the song’s emotional core. Rather than offering clarity, PLUME embrace the chaos — transforming anxiety and vulnerability into something cinematic, immersive and impossible to look away from.
At the same time, PLUME officially announce their upcoming album Saferooms & Healing Frequencies, set for release on September 25th, 2026. With ‘Angel Engine’ serving as a powerful glimpse into the record’s emotional and sonic world, the band also launch the album’s pre-order starting now.
Catch the band live: 26.06.26 I Ab Geht Die Lutzi! Festival I Rottershausen, DE 04.07.26 I Fest der Demokratie I Pfaffenhofen, DE 25.07.26 I kultURKNALL Festival I Murnau, DE 01.08.26 I Rock auf der Burg I Königstein
There’s a certain kind of momentum you don’t fake — and right now, PLUME are moving like a band that’s already outgrown the room.
With their new single ‘Furious Icon’, the rising emo force sharpen their edges and lean further into the tension that’s been building across their previous releases. Where earlier tracks hinted at their range, this one locks in — urgent, restless, and wired with the kind of energy that feels one step away from spiraling out.
PLUME’s recent singles didn’t just introduce them; they established a pattern. Each drop pushed a little further, sonically and visually, pulling more people into their orbit without ever feeling calculated. That same instinct carries through ‘Furious Icon’ — controlled chaos with intent behind it.
There’s no attempt here to smooth things out or play it safe. The track thrives on contrast: jagged and melodic, immediate but layered enough to keep revealing new details on repeat listens. It’s the sound of a band figuring out exactly how far they can push their identity — and then going past it anyway.
If the earlier singles were the signal, ‘Furious Icon’ is the confirmation. PLUME aren’t arriving quietly — and they’re definitely not slowing down.
Catch the band live:
17.04 – at Helios37 14.05 – Stuttgart at Goldmarks (+ Plume) 15.05 – Munich at Backstage Club (+ Plume) 01.08 – Königstein at Rock Auf Der Burg Festival
PLUME don’t ease into a release, they make an entrance you can’t ignore. With their new single ‘!REAL SPIRIT! Caught On Tape’, the emo/alternative force push things further into their own lane. It’s chaotic in the right places, intentional where it needs to be, and carried by a pulse that feels more like a moment than just a song.
Freshly signed to Arising Empire, PLUME aren’t here to follow what’s already happening around them. There’s a new wave forming, rougher around the edges, more expressive, less predictable and ‘!REAL SPIRIT! Caught On Tape’ sits right at the center of it. Not by calculation, but by instinct.
Blending emo sensibilities with alternative grit and a visual identity shaped by distortion, nostalgia and digital overload, the band create something that feels immediate and alive. It’s not polished for comfort, it’s built to leave a mark. PLUME are stepping in at full speed. And this is only the first signal.
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