Scarlet Rebels have released their new single and video Chains and announced their first headline tour in three years. The 2027 UK run begins in Plymouth on 11 February. Chains is the third song taken from the Welsh band’s forthcoming album, Flawed By Design, which is due through Earache Records on 13 November 2026.

The accompanying video was filmed at Chepstow Castle during Scarlet Rebels’ biggest headline show to date, capturing the band in front of a large home crowd. “We loved the idea of capturing a night of huge importance to the band on camera professionally,” frontman Wayne Doyle says. “We’re thrilled with how it’s turned out and that it’ll serve as a reminder of the evening forever.”

The single follows Don’t Look Down, recently added to the Planet Rock playlist, and This Is Happening Now, which was selected for Classic Rock Magazine’s The Hot List. Recorded with returning producer Chris Clancy, Flawed By Design follows the band’s Top 20 album Where The Colours Meet. The new record combines Scarlet Rebels’ powerful rock songwriting with a more personal and introspective approach.

Doyle says Chains began unexpectedly while he was playing acoustic guitar at home. “This song dropped out of the blue, quite literally. I picked my acoustic guitar up at home, hit the first chord and sang, ‘Set my soul on fire again.’ It went from there. This was the first song we started to work on for the record.

“The song speaks of my internal thoughts and anxieties, the overthinking and overanalysing that can be overbearing and weigh you down, resulting in a plea to be released from that burden, or my ‘chains’, if you will.

“I’m conscious that anyone reading this must think I’m constantly walking around being miserable, but like anything that takes any sort of art form, the point is exaggerated for the greater good.”

Scarlet Rebels release Flawed By Design on 13 November 2026. For more details, visit earache.com/collections/scarlet-rebels. For tour tickets, visit ScarletRebels.com.