Black Water Redemption premiere their new single Stand For Something at MetalTalk this morning, marking the band’s debut with new singer Adam Chambers. The track is taken from their new album, due out early October, which looks set to expand on the band’s established sound while pushing into heavier, more refined territory.
“We felt it was the perfect song to kick things off with as the first single of the year,” guitarist Tyler Hains said, “especially with Adam stepping in as vocals.”
This is a quality song, with a super opening fuzzy and compressed riff, before the track swings you along to the band’s newer style. Stand for Something, as a title, is, the band say, pretty self-explanatory. “This is us saying we’ve still got a lot more music in us and a lot of fight and dedication to keeping riff-driven, hard rock alive and kicking.”
Stand For Something song begins the journey that will lead to their album launch shows on 25 September 2026 at the Bear Cave in Bournemouth and four dates in October. “We’ve been more than excited to get this first single from our debut album out,” Black Water Redemption told MetalTalk.
“This is the band and sound we have always wanted to create. We’ve all come from different past projects, and we’ve learned a lot through them, but this time it feels like we are on to something special.
“Stand For Something felt like the perfect single to put out first. It says what it does on the tin. It’s us saying let’s show the world we’ve got something to offer, we’ve got a fight in us.”
The band released their debut EP in 2023, and the following live shows found that their music consistently landed harder live than on record. This renewed direction brings the exciting prospect of their debut full-length.
“The album is full of ultimately heavy riffs, big guitar solos and big vocals,” the band said. “But we didn’t want to create a one-dimensional album of just heavy music. We’ve got a track we really stripped back to piano and vocals, we’ve got a rock-ballad that has a deeper message, plus some bluesy style tracks too. Hopefully, it takes whoever is listening to it on a journey.
Black Water Redemption – Album Launch Show
For Black Water Redemption, The Bear Cave was the obvious choice for the album launch. “We are lucky to have worked with such a dedicated rock venue local to us,” they said, “who have looked after us so well over the years. When it came to picking a venue, we wanted it to be intimate, loud, sweaty and also somewhere we could really connect with. There really wasn’t anywhere else we wanted to do it.
“The cool thing about this show is whoever comes to it will get the chance to not only listen to the album before anyone else but also buy the album physically in advance of the main release date. We honestly cannot wait.”
For now, you can enjoy Stand For Something. Find out more about Black Water Redemption at linktr.ee/blackwaterredemption.
