From Ashes to New - Reflections [Purple]

From Ashes to New stare into the mirror on Reflections, their fifth studio album, pressed on 140-gram purple vinyl.

The Pennsylvania band has spent more than a decade blending heavy riffs, rap-driven verses and huge melodic hooks, with vocalists Danny Case and Matt Brandyberry trading lines. Released in 2026 and produced by the band with Jon Lundin, Reflections wasn't built as a concept album, yet a theme runs through it: the feeling of being stuck in a kind of purgatory, caught between heaven and hell, regret and renewal.

"Die For You" explores a relationship shaped by control and guilt, while "Villain" and "Forever" deliver the band's trademark mix of crunching guitars and soaring choruses. "Falling From Heaven" leans into the album's darker spiritual imagery.

The production is big and modern, with electronic textures woven through the heaviness. Case's soaring clean vocals play off Brandyberry's rapid-fire verses, keeping the energy constantly shifting and every chorus primed for a festival crowd. It's polished, but there's real emotional weight underneath the volume.

For fans of modern hard rock with a nu-metal pulse, this purple pressing is a striking way to hear a band still pushing its sound forward, and a bold splash of color for the shelf.