working on a follow-up studio album

Shortly prior to the release of Requiem , Davis revealed in an interview with Music Feeds that the band were already in the process of working on a follow-up studio album. Welch later stated in a September 2023 interview that a release of new material in 2024 was likely: “Yeah, [there will be] new music coming out next year. I don’t know. We’re just kind of in hiding right now, just doing our own thing.” Welch reiterated in late March 2024 that work was still underway, speaking positively regarding the content recorded thus far. In early December, he stated that while the majority of the album had been written, there were no plans to release anything in the immediate future. Shaffer reiterated once more in 2025 that recording is still underway. Welch, in a February 2026 interview, clarified that while work on the album is still ongoing and there were plans to reconvene for exchange of new material, the band as a whole instead have decided to focus on touring-related endeavours due to already having a substantial catalogue of released works from the preceding decades. Immediately following this, a since-deleted post depicted Shaffer with Chris Lord-Alge strongly implying that the mixing process was underway. Shaffer stated in May that around 40 candidate songs had been written. As of March 2025, the elapsed time since the release of Requiem has become the longest thus far with no studio album release, exceeding the 1,109-day gap from The Paradigm Shift to The Serenity of Suffering .