There’s a particular kind of silence that follows a band when nobody’s quite sure if they’re done or just sleeping. For RAUNCHY, that silence lasted the better part of a decade - and now it’s broken.
“Prisoner”, the seventh studio album from the Danish genre-benders, lands in summer 2026 via Mighty Music, the same label that first put them on record back in 2001. A full-circle moment, and the band knows it.
“It feels right being back at Mighty,” says drummer Morten “Molle” Toft Hansen. “We’ve been around the block - Nuclear Blast, Lifeforce, Massacre - and there’s something about coming home to the people who believed in us first. They get what this band is”.
Raunchy have always been the band that belonged everywhere and nowhere: too melodic for death metal purists, too heavy for the radio crowd, too synth-driven for the metalcore kids, and too riff-forward for anyone trying to file them under industrial. “Prisoner” doesn’t try to resolve that contradiction. It leans into it.