Raunchy – PRISONER CD

There’s a particular kind of silence that follows a band when nobody’s quite sure if they’re done or just sleeping. For RAUNCHY, that silence lasted the better part of a decade – and now it’s broken.“Prisoner”, the seventh studio album from the Danish genre-benders, lands in summer 2026 via Mighty Music, the same label that first put them on record back in 2001. A full-circle moment, and the band knows it.“It feels right being back at Mighty,” says drummer Morten “Molle” Toft Hansen. “We’ve been around the block – Nuclear Blast, Lifeforce, Massacre – and there’s something about coming home to the people who believed in us first. They get what this band is”.Raunchy have always been the band that belonged everywhere and nowhere: too melodic for death metal purists, too heavy for the radio crowd, too synth-driven for the metalcore kids, and too riff-forward for anyone trying to file them under industrial. “Prisoner” doesn’t try to resolve that contradiction. It leans into it.