Swedish modern rock heavyweights Self Deception aren’t here to play nice. The Stockholm-based four-piece have just dropped their brand-new single “BREAK!” — a heavy-hitting, hook-stuffed anthem that lands only days before their highly anticipated new album, One Of Us, arrives this Friday, May 15, via Napalm Records.

If you’ve been waiting for a song that fuses pummeling drums, riff-forward guitars, electronic flourishes, and a chorus engineered to be screamed back from the back row of every European festival field this summer — congratulations, “BREAK!” is the soundtrack to your summer breakdown. In the best way possible.

Vocalist Andreas Clark says the song is a portrait of a very specific kind of human chaos: “We all know that person. The one who made chaos their comfort, who can’t feel love unless it hurts, ’cause pain’s the only proof it’s real. One side writes poetry, the other lights the pages on fire. Passionate but poisonous, begging for peace while starting wars, addicted to the drama, torn clean down the middle of who they are.”

Translation: you probably dated them. Or you are them. Either way, the pit is open.

Watch the official music video for “BREAK!” here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OJ-CLCgBUH4

The single follows in the slipstream of Self Deception’s viral 2022 hit “Fight Fire With Gasoline,” which racked up tens of millions of streams and firmly planted the band on the international rock radar. Since their 2009 debut, they’ve shared stages with the likes of Electric Callboy, Danko Jones, and Adept, sharpening the kind of live show that makes festival bookers nod knowingly.

Written on the road during the heaviest touring run of their career, One Of Us is a record built for the stage — and the pit. “Touring so much has put us in a kind of ‘live bubble,’ and that feeling runs through the songwriting,” the band explains. “The album revolves around outsidership and the desire to belong. On tour, we meet many lost and lonely people, all seeking a few hours of escape where they can disappear into a rock show. With One Of Us, we want everyone to feel part of something bigger, to feel like one of us.”

The 11-track album opens with the bone-crushing title track “ONE OF US,” a hardcore-tinged statement of intent, before barreling into the hit-chorus territory of “TIME’S UP,” the emotionally weighty “DON’T B E L O N G” (which tackles addiction and mental health head-on), the breakdown-heavy “ENTERTAINED,” and the powerful closer “GODDAMN ME.” The cover artwork comes courtesy of Alex Tillbrook — yes, the same artist behind work for Stranger Things, Metallica, Blink-182, and Sleep Token.

ONE OF US TRACK LISTING:
1. ONE OF US
2. TIME’S UP
3. WAKE UP
4. DON’T B E L O N G
5. DEATH OF ME
6. BREAK!
7. THE WEDDING
8. KETAMINE COWBOY
9. BLAME
10. ENTERTAINED
11. GODDAMN ME

Self Deception waste no time taking the new material to the masses, with a stacked European festival summer that includes Sweden Rock Festival, Download Festival, Resurrection Fest, Masters of Rock, and Dynamo Metal Fest, before joining Amaranthe and Ankor for a sprawling Nordic Tour through October and November.

FESTIVAL SUMMER 2026:
6/4 — Sölvesborg, SE — Sweden Rock Festival
6/12 — Leeuwarden, NL — Into the Grave Festival
6/13 — Castle Donington, UK — Download Festival
7/1 — Viveiro, ES — Resurrection Fest
7/17 — Leoben, AT — Area 53 Festival
7/18 — Vizovice, CZ — Masters of Rock
8/6 — Trosa, SE — Trosa Galejet
8/7 — Nynäshamn, SE — Nynäs Kalaset
8/13 — Sulingen, DE — Reload Festival
8/15 — Eindhoven, NL — Dynamo Metal Fest

NORDIC TOUR 2026 (with Amaranthe & Ankor):
10/15 — Huskvarna, SE — Folkets Park
10/16 — Lund, SE — Mejeriet
10/17 — Göteborg, SE — Filmstudion
10/18 — Örebro, SE — Frimis Salonger
10/20 — Karlstad, SE — Nöjesfabriken
10/22 — Stavanger, NO — Folken
10/23 — Bergen, NO — USF Verftet
10/24 — Trondheim, NO — Havet
10/25 — Oslo, NO — Sentrum Scene
10/27 — Falun, SE — Magasinet
10/28 — Umeå, SE — Väven
10/30 — Seinäjoki, FI — Rytmikorjaamo
10/31 — Tampere, FI — Tavara-asema
11/1 — Jyväskylä, FI — Tanssisali Lutakko
11/3 — Riga, LV — Spelet
11/4 — Vilnius, LT — Menu Fabrikas Loftas
11/6 — Turku, FI — Logomo
11/7 — Lahti, FI — Metalli Mössö

Pre-order One Of Us — out Friday, May 15 via Napalm Records — and clear your throat for the chorus. You’re going to need it.