Album Out January 16th Via Metalville

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German industrial metallers SOULBOUND reveal the new single "sYn". The song is also the title track from the band's forthcoming new studio album, sYn, which is set for international release on January 16th, 2026 via Metalville. The official video for "sYn" can be seen & heard on KNAC.COM HERE.

With "sYn", SOULBOUND deliver a relentless opening to their new studio album. The track is anything but comfortable: loud, furious, and almost liturgical in its intensity. Blending heavy riffs, dark synths, and industrial elements, the band forges a sound that merges NDH, alternative metal, and electronic pathos, and makes a clear statement.

Lyrically, "sYn" explores the modern idea of sin, not as a religious dogma, but as a reflection of societal responsibility. It confronts guilt, denial, and moral hypocrisy, a scream against a world that prefers silence over truth.

"What if guilt doesn't come from religion, but from everything we ignore?," the band asks. "sYn" is their reckoning with inner darkness - raw, direct, and unapologetic."

Following their last album obsYdian, which reached #12 on the German album charts, and a successful headlining tour, SOULBOUND return with sYn to show they're not here to meet expectations, they're here to break them.

With sYn, SOULBOUND present their most uncompromising work to date. The melodic industrial metal band's fourth studio album strikes a dark, direct tone and remains as catchy as it is uncomfortable. Between brutal self-reckoning, social criticism and sacred exaltation, sYn spins a dense thematic thread around the central motif of sin - rethought, interpreted in many different ways and bitterly personal.

Musically, the band remains true to itself: sYn combines hard riffs, brute synths, pounding beats, and anthemic choruses, somewhere between NDH, metalcore, and electronically distorted world pain. But instead of bold provocation, it's about attitude. It's about admitting to being fallible - about contradicting dogmas and wrestling with one's own precipice.

"If we're considered sinners, might as well be it with purpose and flair!" says the band. This is exactly how sYn sounds: raw, honest, angry, but also vulnerable. An album like a mirror that doesn't embellish, but confronts. No pure accusations, but an outcry. Not enlightenment, but flames in which you stand.

sYn was recorded and produced entirely by the band themselves.

Tracklisting:

• "Abaddon"
• "sYn"
• "No Kings For Me"
• "Cutting Diamonds"
• "sYnfluencer"
• "Chaos & Amen"
• "Dark Throne"
• "Neon Battlefield"
• "Sacred Skin"
• "Not Metal Enough"
• "sYnners Crown "
• "If U Seek Amy" (bonus track / cover - original by Britney Spears)