Staind Set a March 5, 2027, Album and Share "Watch Me Break"

By Cole Ashby, November 14, 2026

Staind has set a date for its ninth studio album. The Space Between The Darkness And The Light is due March 5, 2027, on Alchemy Recordings / BMG. The band also has a new single, "Watch Me Break," out as the album's opening track, with an official visualizer on the Staind YouTube channel.

"Watch Me Break"

Aaron Lewis, Mike Mushok, Johnny April, and Sal Giancarelli made the record with producer Erik Ron, who also produced 2023's Confessions of the Fallen. Lewis says "Watch Me Break" was the last song he finished, "because I knew I was going to be pretty angry throughout the whole thing." In the press release, he adds, "It's definitely pointed at this insane machine the music industry puts human beings in and expects them to come out normal."

The official visualizer description prints the opening lines: "I wear this crown / The one you gave me / With no regard for if I wanted this at all."

A ninth album in the middle

"It almost named itself," Lewis says. "The title fit this collection because the songs are stuck in the conflict between opposite ends of the spectrum. There are a couple of songs where I'm straight up talking to God. To me, that's The Space Between The Darkness and The Light."

The 10-song tracklist opens with "Watch Me Break" and includes "Ghosts," the October 14, 2026, single, plus "100 Mile Stare," "Broken," "All Along," "Pull Me Down," "Digging My Own Grave," "Why," "Free," and "Get Away." The band is also taking the Break the Cycle 25th Anniversary Tour back out in 2027, with Seether and Hoobastank, and with Hinder on all dates except Cleveland. Break the Cycle is the 2001 album that put "It's Been Awhile" and "Warm Safe Place" into the catalog that tour is built around.

A ninth album Lewis says almost named itself, opened by a song he pointed at the industry, is the right kind of unfinished business for a band still willing to work in public.

Staind: "Watch Me Break" (Visualizer)

Staind: The Space Between The Darkness And The Light (Apple Music)