Reliqa Announce ‘High Risk Thoughts’ And Release ‘Serum’

Reliqa have announced their second album, High Risk Thoughts, for 12 February 2027 through Nuclear Blast Records. The ten-track record follows their 2024 debut Secrets of the Future, and its opening song ‘Serum’ is available now with an official video.

The Sydney quartet describe ‘Serum’ as the bridge between their first album and what comes next. They point specifically to VOLA’s influence on its low, mechanical character. That is a useful marker for a song that still leaves room for Monique Pym’s clean vocal control and the band’s progressive turns instead of treating heaviness as a single setting.

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Ten songs, with ‘Serum’ at the front

High Risk Thoughts runs from ‘Serum’ into ‘Hands to the Ceiling’ and the title track. ‘Quiet Coda’, the previously released ‘Your Touch’, ‘Cemetery Roots’, ‘One Word’, ‘Unguarded’ and ‘Digital Heaven’ follow before ‘Nobody Survives This’ closes the record. Nuclear Blast’s announcement places Spiritbox, Northlane and Bring Me The Horizon among the album’s modern reference points, while Reliqa say they kept the work close to home and retained a DIY approach.

Choosing ‘Serum’ as both the opener and the announcement single makes sense beyond its title-card role. Reliqa say it is the only song from the new album that they have played consistently in concert, so the campaign begins with a piece that has already been tested in a room. The record itself can now show how far the colder sound around it extends.

A first North American run with Northlane

The album release also lines up with Reliqa’s first North American tour. They will support Northlane from 12 February at Ace of Spades in Sacramento through 18 March at Portland’s Roseland Theater. The 25-date route reaches the United States and Canada, including New York, Montreal, Toronto, Chicago, Calgary and Vancouver.

That tour gives Reliqa a direct introduction to listeners who know Northlane’s progressive and electronic side. ‘Serum’ meets that audience on familiar ground, but the precision of Pym’s voice and the song’s refusal to stay in one gear keep it recognisably theirs.