Wolves at the Gate Announce Borderland With "Firewall" Video

By Odessa Vance, November 14, 2026

Wolves at the Gate announced Borderland on Nov. 13, 2026, setting the album for April 9, 2027, through Solid State Records. Apple Music has the 14 track record up for pre-order under that date, and the band shared a video for its single "Firewall" the same day on Solid State's YouTube channel.

Wolves at the Gate, "Firewall" music video

What the band says about "Firewall"

Atom Splitter PR's release says the video "finds the band in performance mode." The band explained the song in the same release: "For us, 'Firewall' deals with the uncomfortable realization that we can't fix ourselves or erase the most broken parts of who we are. It's about recognizing that the deepest struggles of our hearts can’t be resolved by looking inward or simply trying harder. Maybe our greatest hope is found in putting our trust in the hands of someone greater than ourselves."

A sequel to Wasteland

The release calls Borderland "a thematic follow up to 2025's WASTELAND." Guitarist and clean vocalist Steve Cobucci laid out the link. "Wasteland focused on an individual who embraced living selfishly and lawlessly in the pursuit of life shrouded in the justification that the rest of the world lives the same way," he said. "Borderland is the beginning of his journey, but he doesn’t exactly know where to go."

"Firewall" is the seventh of 14 songs. August Burns Red vocalist Jake Luhrs guests on "Bloodletting," and "Letterkills" already has a visualizer, posted to Solid State's channel on Sept. 17, 2026.

Where it fits

Apple lists Wasteland from May 30, 2025, and before it Lost In Translation (2023), Eulogies (2022), Eclipse (2019), Types & Shadows (2016), VxV (2014) and Captors (2012); the release counts Borderland as the Ohio group's eighth full-length. With two songs out nearly five months ahead of release and a story that picks up where Wasteland ended, the rollout is set up for listeners to follow the narrative a piece at a time.