MOB RULES RETURN

June 11, 2025

Seven long years since their latest studio offering, North German power metal collective MOB RULES returns with their eagerly awaited new album, entitled “Rise Of The Ruler”, that is slated for a release on August 22nd via ROAR.

The follow-up to 2018’s successful album “Beast Reborn” (which reached a sensational #37 in the German and #59 in the Swiss album charts) is not only a work brimming with creativity, wit and quality, but also the conceptual continuation of their two early albums “Savage Land” (1999) and “Temple Of Two Suns” (2000), with which MOB RULES laid the foundation for their career. Both albums are linked by an exciting concept story about life in a dystopian, hostile end-time world in which resources are becoming scarce. This is exactly where the band’s new offering “Rise Of The Ruler” comes in and keyboardist Jan Christian Halfbrodt (who is responsible for all the lyrics) continues the thread.

After previously-released songs, “Back To Savage Land” and “Future Loom”, today, MOB RULES are premiering an epic video clip for their new single “Trial and Trail of Fear”! Listen to the track now streaming on all digital providers at: https://mobrules.rpm.link/tatofPR

“The song ‘Trial and Trail of Fear’ is based on lumbering heavy metal riffs and creates an epic atmosphere,” comments singer Klaus Dirks. “Lyrically, it deals with a scenario that many can relate to: one knows the feeling of diving headfirst into a new challenge, only to feel completely overwhelmed and fighting with all one’s might to keep going.”

Watch the music video for “Trial and Trail of Fear” here: