HumanKind have released "Runaway", a single from their second studio album Perfect World (due December 4, 2026 via ROAR). The modern metalcore track examines depression and emotional disconnection, using frozen imagery and fading light to convey the numbness of withdrawing from life.
HUMANKIND Release New Single ‘Runaway’
From Upcoming Studio Album Perfect World
Out on December 4, 2026 via ROAR
Modern metalcore collective HumanKind has released their brand-new single ‘Runaway’, taken from their upcoming studio album Perfect World, due out on December 4, 2026 via ROAR – A Division Of Reigning Phoenix Music.
Exploring the overwhelming desire to escape when emotional pain becomes unbearable, ‘Runaway’ dives into the isolating effects of depression and the gradual loss of connection to oneself and the world.
HumanKind comment on "Runaway":
“Runaway explores avoidance as a survival mechanism. Sometimes emotional pain becomes so overwhelming that escaping reality feels easier than confronting it. The lyrics describe someone slowly withdrawing from life, convinced they no longer belong anywhere. Frozen imagery, disappearing light and endless snow create an atmosphere of emotional numbness, illustrating how depression often manifests not through sadness but through complete emotional disconnection. Placed near the end of the album, Runaway represents one final temptation to surrender before reaching the album's conclusion.”
Stream ‘Runaway’: https://humankind.rpm.link/runawayPR
Following previously released singles such as ‘Desire To Die’, ‘Humans’,’The Darkness I Own’, the stirring Billie Eilish cover version of ‘lovely’ featuring Enemy Inside vocalist Nastassja, and ‘Drain Me’, the release of ‘Runaway’ brings HumanKind another step closer to unleashing their much-awaited second studio album.
With Perfect World, HumanKind take a decisive step forward and deliver their most emotional, ambitious and, at the same time, heaviest work to date. Where their previous record, An End, Once and for All, focused primarily on surviving inner darkness, Perfect World asks a much bigger question: What does it mean to remain human in a world that seems to lose its humanity every day?
While remaining firmly rooted in modern metal, the band combines metalcore with cinematic atmospheres, crushing breakdowns, melodic choruses and emotionally driven songwriting. Every song stands on its own while contributing to one cohesive story that encourages listeners not only to confront difficult emotions, but also to realise that they are never truly alone in facing them. Darkness and hope exist side by side throughout the record, reflecting HumanKind’s core message that even at our lowest points, we don’t have to face our battles alone. Music connects us. More uncompromising in its heaviness and more vulnerable in its emotions, Perfect World captures HumanKind at their most intense and authentic yet.
Behind its title, Perfect World is anything but an escape into perfection.
"Throughout the album we explore depression, anxiety, trauma, loneliness, social isolation, digital exhaustion, environmental collapse and the growing disconnect between people", the band comments. "Despite addressing these heavy topics, Perfect World is not an album about hopelessness. It is about resilience. It is about choosing compassion over indifference and finding purpose even when the world around us appears to be falling apart."
The album follows an emotional progression. It begins deep within the mind, confronting personal battles and internal demons. As the songs unfold, the perspective widens towards society as a whole, questioning our relationship with technology, with each other and with the planet itself. Ultimately, the title track Perfect World brings every idea together, reflecting on everything humanity had, everything it lost and everything that may still be worth saving.
Once again the band joined forces with Christoph Wieczorek (Annisokay, Sawdust Recordings), who handled production, mixing and mastering.
Pre-order Perfect World here: https://humankind.rpm.link/perfectworldPR
Perfect World Tracklist:
1. The Darkness I Own
2. Desire to Die
3. Drain Me
4. Black Sands
5. lovely (Billie Eilish cover ft. Nastassja from Enemy Inside)
6. Fed Up
7. Humans
8. Runaway
9. Perfect World
10. The Darkness I Own (Piano Version)
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HumanKind is:
Samuel Scholz (Vocals)
Maria Kimberly Huehn (Guitar)
Simon Keil (Guitar)
Dominik “Doemsen” Stotzem (Bass)
Silas Schué (Drums)
