| Photo: Steve Gullick |
| Brighton’s Sick Joy today announce details of their anticipated new album More Forever, set for release on 30th January 2025. Recorded in a remote Spanish studio with acclaimed producer Alain Johannes (Queens Of The Stone Age, Mark Lanegan, Chris Cornell, Them Crooked Vultures), then later mixed by Josh “Hoagie” Harrison (Royal Blood, The Cure) and mastered by Katie Tavini, Sick Joy’s sophomore album expands the band’s alt-rock DNA while adding industrial nods, with bruising potent drums, jagged synths, and lyrics that wrestle systemic damage, grief, love and survival into brutal poetry. The announcement arrives alongside the album’s first single, All Damage, available now on all major streaming platforms. Speaking on the new single, vocalist and guitarist Mykl Barton shares: “Becoming aware of negative processes that were once subconscious, but still allowing them to rule. The persistent search for some chemical absolution for allowing the darkest parts of yourself to take the reins. Seeing the deep roots of these damaging, unsustainable coping mechanisms, but also still feeling a yearn towards them. The eternally aching dichotomy that’s been a constant my entire life.” |
| To celebrate the album’s release, Sick Joy will hit the road for a headline tour across the UK and Europe in early 2026, kicking on in Birmingham on January 29th, before concluding in Paris on February 20th. Full dates below: |
SICK JOY ALBUM HEADLINE TOUR:JANUARY 29 Birmingham Flapper 30 London Oslo 31 Cambridge The Blue Moon FEBRUARY 3 Exeter Cavern 4 Bristol Exchange 6 Nottingham Bodega 7 Manchester Deaf Institute 8 Glasgow Hug & Pint 10 Newcastle Zerox 11 Norwich Voodoo Daddys 13 Brighton Daltons 18 Amsterdam Cinetol 20 Paris Supersonic |
