International symphonic metal icons Kamelot — renowned for their infectious melodies, cinematic storytelling, and electrifying performances — return with their haunting new album Dark Asylum, arriving on 28 August via Napalm Records. Now fourteen albums into a genre‑defining career, the band remains a towering force in modern metal more than three decades on.

Set within a shadowed Neo‑Victorian world, Dark Asylum invites listeners beyond the gates of RavenHill Asylum — an imposing institution once built as a grand cathedral, now repurposed into a place where science, faith, and madness uneasily coexist.

Kamelot founder and guitarist Thomas Youngblood comments: "Dark Asylum follows a soul trapped inside a world of masks, fractured memories, and psychological torment, wandering the endless halls of RavenHill in search of truth, identity, and redemption. What begins as a descent into darkness gradually transforms into a journey of awakening, where beneath the fear, illusion, and chaos lies the possibility of healing, hope, and ultimately a path out of the shadows into Sanctuary. The album explores the duality between despair and salvation, blurring the lines between reality and madness through theatrical storytelling, haunting atmospheres, and deeply emotional themes".

Frontman Tommy Karevik adds: "Dark Asylum invites listeners into the hidden chambers of the human mind. A journey where every door reveals a different story, yet all remain deeply connected. At its core, the album explores the duality of human nature: the constant tension between fear and hope, chaos and stillness, destruction and healing. Dark Asylum reflects the struggle to remain sane within a cold and barren world, while ultimately discovering that salvation is not something found externally, but something that already exists within us all. Through self-exploration, awareness, and inner peace, healing becomes possible. This concept opened the door to a more cinematic and haunting sonic landscape, allowing us to experiment with darker, more eerie musical themes".

Longtime Kamelot producer Sascha Paeth once again helms the album, joined by Jacob Hansen, who handles mixing and mastering duties.

Karevik concludes: "The imagery was intentionally painted with delicate strokes, capturing the fine line between beauty and disorder, and the way chaos and tranquillity coexist within the same space. The result is an immersive experience that feels both unsettling and deeply human. A descent into darkness that ultimately searches for light".

Deepening the immersion into RavenHill, Dark Asylum will be released across a wide plethora of formats, including standard gold, solid silver, and classic black vinyl editions; certified vinyl with white label; white‑splatter and blood‑filled variants — the latter each paired with an official 24‑page booklet. Multiple CD digipak editions will be available, with the 2‑disc version including an instrumental edition of the album, alongside cassette and digital formats.

Ever committed to bringing their worlds beyond the studio, Kamelot will take RavenHill Asylum on the road this autumn with the immersive Dark Asylum World Tour, spanning North America and Europe — check the tour dates HERE. Once you step inside RavenHill… there is no turning back. Link

Dark Asylum tracklist:
01. Sanctorium
02. Ashen World (feat. Ignacia Fernández)
03. ⁠Dark Asylum
04. Sanctuary (feat. Clémentine Delauney & Ignacia Fernández)
05. Nocte Veritas
06. One Last Masquerade (feat. Tobias Sammet)
07. ⁠Ivy, My Dear
08. Godlike Alchemy
09. The Sleeping Mind (Orphic Paradigm)
10. Kaleidoscope
11. Enigma (Think of Me)
12. Cassandra's Disease
13. Beneath the Moon (Tunglið) (feat. Rannveig Sif Sigurðardóttir, Sólveig Sara Leupold, Lea-Sophie Fischer)
14. ⁠The Puppet King
15. ⁠Sanctum Requiem