# Polyphia push into new sonic extremes on hypnotic single With Eyes To See

**New Music** — On Your Markus  
**Published:** 27 September 2026  
**Author:** Markus Hamence  
**Source:** https://onyourmarkus.au/new-music-releases/polyphia-eyes-to-see/

Polyphia have released "With Eyes To See", the third single from their fifth studio album BE NOT AFRAID, due October 23 via Rise Records. The instrumental rock band blends metal, prog, and house music on the hypnotic track, paired with a music video featuring mesmerising visuals interwoven with redacted documents and imagery of global destruction.

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Genre-defying instrumental rock innovators **Polyphia **have released the hypnotic new track  
“[With Eyes To See](https://us.list-manage.com/P9UPEVbRTr2?e=c982cfcc7a&c2id=8df4eb0d792325807e8f2eb2abb2bd4e)” with an accompanying music video. 

This is the third single off their highly anticipated fifth full-length studio album   
***BE NOT AFRAID*** out **October 23** with Rise Records. 

**STREAM “WITH EYES TO SEE”**  
**[http://polyphia.lnk.to/WithEyesToSee](http://polyphia.lnk.to/WithEyesToSee)**

**AND WATCH THE MUSIC VIDEO**

[Watch on YouTube](https://youtu.be/WyfIzJwwOTc?si=hPHXbytKQjo2HJzs)

The accompanying music video mirrors the track's hypnotic pull, layering mesmerizing visuals with flashes of a world turned inside out. It’s interwoven with glimpses of redacted Epstein files and world destruction, grounding the video's dreamlike unraveling in something unsettlingly real.

Earlier this year, Polyphia teased their new chapter with the release of their first single in over four years, “**[Can You Feel It](https://us.list-manage.com/5KGnWcul29y?e=c982cfcc7a&c2id=8df4eb0d792325807e8f2eb2abb2bd4e)**” pushing boundaries in ways the band never has before with a hybrid of metal and dance music. Following, they released “**Power In The Blood**” with a music video filmed at the São Francisco da Penitência Church in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. The powerful visuals from each release lay the foundation for what’s to come off the new record.

Throughout 2024 and 2025, Polyphia worked together in various locations in Miami, Los Angeles and Dallas alongside co-producer RJ Pasin and guitar phenom Spiro Dussias. Guitarist **Tim Henson** took a different approach to composition, initially singing lines aloud and then translating them onto guitar, creating a process that encouraged the entire band to build on each other’s ideas in real time. More than anything, the sessions were defined by how much fun they were having creating music together. By the time the album was finished, they had reached a point where they could let go of any expectations about what would happen next and simply enjoy what they had created together.

The collective thread together a three-dimensional offering of otherworldly metal, future-facing prog, and pulsating house sealed tightly with carefully curated samples, inventive beat-craft, and the guitar eloquence that Tim and Scott remain renowned for. This time around, the instrumental push-and-pull invokes the polarity of the ultimate extremes: good and evil.  
 

When speaking on the album Henson adds, “*The album takes you through the extremes of two different worlds / moods: one being very uplifting and triumphant, the other being spine-chilling and terrifying. There are moments on the record that legitimately scare me when I listen to them.”*

Be Not Afraid is available for pre-order now  
**[polyphia.lnk.to/BENOTAFRAID](http://polyphia.lnk.to/BENOTAFRAID)**

![Ornate gilt ceiling medallion featuring a radiating sunburst design surrounded by baroque scrollwork and decorative relief elements.](https://media.onyourmarkus.au/admin/2026/09/105e902f-f7cd-41ef-824b-2acdfd8f8cfc.jpg)

Polyphia have always said what they need to say with their instruments. Since their emergence in 2010, the Texas-bred outfit - Tim Henson [guitar], Scott LePage [guitar], Clay Gober [bass], and Clay Aeschliman [drums] - have organically progressed across a series of acclaimed albums, including *Muse* [2014], *Renaissance* [2016], *New Levels New Devils* [2018], and *Remember That You Will Die* [2022]. The latterbowed at #1 on the *Billboard* Top Hard Rock Albums Chart and cracked the Top 40 of the *Billboard* 200. Tallying hundreds of millions of streams, it established the band as rare outliers equally suited to collaborations with either pop singer Sophia Black, multiplatinum rapper SNOT, guitar hero Steve Vai, or iconic Deftones frontman Chino Moreno (on the same body of work).

It’s no wonder* Guitar World* readers unanimously voted it *“The Best Guitar Album of 2022*.*” *Beyond headlining sold-out tours, the group incited the applause of *Wired*, *Revolver*, and *Rolling Stone* who described Tim as *“reinventing the instrument for more than a decade*.*”* However, the quartet make a particularly provocative and powerful sonic statement on their fifth full-length offering,* BE NOT AFRAID* [Rise Records]. The collective thread together a three-dimensional tableau of otherworldly metal, future-facing prog, and pulsating house sealed tightly with carefully curated samples, inventive beat-craft, and the guitar eloquence that Tim and Scott remain renowned for. This time around, the instrumental push-and-pull invokes the polarity of the ultimate extremes: good and evil.

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![Musicians perform in an ornate baroque chapel with gilt-carved walls and a crucifix altar backdrop.](https://media.onyourmarkus.au/admin/2026/09/467eaa50-a924-4d44-8110-3900da936371.jpg)