If hard rock is therapy, then Eva Under Fire just booked you a standing appointment. The Detroit-based quintet — fronted by licensed psychotherapist and full-throated wrecking ball Amanda Lyberg — has dropped a brand new lyric video for “The Words You Say,” the latest offering from their forthcoming sophomore album, Villainous, out July 10 via Better Noise Music.

Watch and listen here: https://evaunderfire.lnk.to/thewordsyousay/youtube

“The Words You Say” is a mid-tempo, emotionally violent rager — the kind of track that hits you in the chest before you’ve even registered the lyrics. And once the lyrics do land, they land hard. “This song is about being in a toxic relationship when words are often twisted and used against us,” Lyberg explains. “It scrambles our minds and makes reality seem so far away.” It’s a gut-punch of a song built on lived experience, the kind of thing Eva Under Fire has quietly perfected across their catalog: turning scars and demons into anthems of inner strength.

The new single arrives while the band’s title track “Villainous” — a scorched-earth collaboration with In This Moment’s Maria Brink — continues its climb toward the Top 10 at rock radio. If you haven’t tangled with that one yet, consider this your warning.

Villainous marks the follow-up to Eva Under Fire’s 2022 debut Love, Drugs & Misery, an album that produced the Top 20 Active Rock single “Unstoppable” (featuring Cory Marks) and helped land the band on SiriusXM’s 2023 “Ones To Watch” list. With over 100 million streams, 10 million YouTube views, and high-profile soundtrack placements in Better Noise Films’ The Retaliators and Sno Babies, this band has been building steam for years — Villainous feels like the moment the fuse finally hits the powder.

VILLAINOUS TRACK LISTING:
1. Awakening
2. My Own Name
3. Survive My Scars
4. Villainous (feat. Maria Brink of In This Moment)
5. The Words You Say
6. Don’t Say I’m OK
7. Hello Hollow
8. Dark Soul
9. Gasoline
10. Murder Scene
11. Safe Word
12. Teeth
13. A Violent End

Fans looking to catch Eva Under Fire live in 2026 are in luck — the band is basically living on a tour bus this year. After a winter run with Jeris Johnson and Butcher Babies, they’re hitting the road all summer and into fall as direct support on Five Finger Death Punch’s 20th Anniversary World Tour 2026, alongside Cody Jinks on most dates. The run kicks off July 20 in Camden, NJ and stretches through late October, with stops at Red Rocks, Hersheypark Stadium, Ruoff Music Center, Shoreline Amphitheatre, and dozens more.

Pre-order Villainous before its July 10 release and get ready — this is the record where Eva Under Fire stops asking for a seat at the table and just flips the whole thing over.

Stream and pre-save “The Words You Say”: https://evaunderfire.lnk.to/thewordsyousay