NEWS : FRI, JUN 5, 2026 at 6:00 AM
SLIFT Share New, Animated Lyric Video For “Fantasia,” The Title Track From Their New Album Available Today
French heavy rock band SLIFT is releasing Fantasia, their incredible new album, worldwide from Sub Pop today, Friday, June 5th. To celebrate the release, the band is sharing a new lyric video for the album’s title track, directed by Edd Carr (Deftones’ “cut hands” visualizer), featuring cyanotype imagery of a wide variety of winged insects.
SLIFT says of the visual, “‘Fantasia’ is a song that expresses the power to rise above pain through love and a deep connection with the world around us.”
SLIFT’s previously announced tour in support of Fantasia resumes tonight, Friday, June 5th, in Tampere, FI at the Ankea Festival, and runs through Saturday, February 6th, 2027 in Madrid, ES at Wolf. The tour includes extensive dates in North America, the UK, and the EU between now and early 2027.
Tickets for all shows are on sale now. Please find a full list of dates below.
Fri. Jun. 05 - Tampere, FI - Ankea Festival
Thu. Jun. 18 - Vannes, FR - Festival Echopark
Fri. Jun. 19 - Clisson, FR - Hellfest
Sat. Jun. 27 - Lärz, DE - Fusion Festival
Mon. Jun. 29 - Paris, FR - L’Olympia
Fri. Jul. 03 - Hérouville-Saint-Clair, FR - Festival Beauregard
Sat. Aug. 08 - Josefov, FR - Brutal Assault Festival
Sat. Aug. 15 - Carhaix, FR - Motocultor Festival
US, Fall 2026
Tue. Oct. 06 - Boston, MA - The Sinclair
Wed. Oct. 07 - New York, NY - Le Poisson Rouge LPR
Thu. Oct. 08 - Washington, DC - The Atlantis
Fri. Oct. 09 - Cleveland, OH - Beachland Ballroom
Sat. Oct. 10 - Toronto, ON - Lee’s Palace
Sun. Oct. 11 - Detroit, MI - El Club
Tue. Oct. 13 - Chicago, IL - Outset
Wed. Oct. 14 - Saint Paul, MN - Turf Club
Fri. Oct. 16 - Denver, CO - Bluebird
Tue. Oct. 20 - Seattle, WA - Neumos
Wed. Oct. 21 - Portland, OR - Wonder Ballroom
Fri. Oct. 23 - San Francisco, CA - August Hall
Sat. Oct. 24 - Los Angeles, CA - Pacific Electric
EU/UK, Fall 2026
Tue. Nov. 17 - Ramonville-Saint-Agne, FR - Le Bikini
Wed. Nov. 18 - La Rochelle, FR - La Sirene
Thu. Nov. 19 - Nantes, FR - Stereolux
Fri. Nov. 20 - Rennes, FR - Antipode
Mon. Nov. 23 - Amsterdam, NL - Paradiso
Tue. Nov. 24 - Groningen, NL - Vera
Wed. Nov. 25 - Hamburg, DE - Knust
Thu. Nov. 26 - Berlin, DE - Lido
Fri. Nov. 27 - Prague, CZ - Subzero
Sat. Nov. 28 - Frankfurt, DE - ZOOM
Mon. Nov. 30 - Zurich, CH - Plaza
Tue. Dec. 01 - Milan, IT - Circolo Arci Belleza
Wed. Dec. 02 - Villeurbanne, FR - Le Transbordeur
Thu. Dec. 03 - Strasbourg, FR - La Laiterie
Fri. Dec. 04 - Brussels, BE - Ancienne Belgique
Sat. Dec. 05 - Lille, FR - L’Aeronef
Tue. Dec. 08 - Dublin, IE - Academy Dublin
Thu. Dec. 10 - Manchester, UK - GORILLA
Fri. Dec. 11 - Nottingham, UK - Rescue Rooms
Sat. Dec. 12 - Bristol, UK - Thekla
Sun. Dec. 13 - London, UK - Islington Assembly Hall
EU, February 2027
Wed. Feb. 03 - Porto, PT - M.OU.CO
Thu. Feb. 04 - Lisbon, PT - República de Música
Fri. Feb. 05 - Madrid, ES - Copernico
Sat. Feb. 06 - Madrid, ES - Wolf
SLIFT’s Fantasia was produced by the band at Daft Studios in Brussels, Belgium, mixed by Kurt Ballou at GodCity Studio in Salem, Massachusetts, and mastered by Magnus Lindberg at Vrtkl Audio in Stockholm, Sweden. Fantasia features the aforementioned title track, “The Day of Execution,” and “A Storm of Wings.”
Fantasia is now available on CD/2xLP/Digitally worldwide from Sub Pop. 2xLP orders in North America through megamart.subpop.com, in the UK/EU from Mega Mart Europe, and the band’s live shows will receive the limited Loser Edition on Mustard Yellow (North America) and Sparkle Starlight (UK/EU) colored vinyl. The limited Loser Editions will also be available at your local record store while supplies last.
Read more about SLIFT’s Fantasia here.
“Fantasia as a whole takes everything great about Slift and revs it harder… Expect their already-soaring career to rocket even further after this.” 9/10, Metal Hammer
“[Slift] tighten their sprawling jams, contracting the space rock crescendos of 2024’s Ilion into potent shorter songs. The concise approach here works in their favour.” The Wire
“It’s a testament to the force and fury of Slift’s signature synthesis of psych, prog, and post-hardcore that not even the flurry of Rick Wakeman-style synth arpeggios on Fantasia’s nine-minute opening title track can soften the song’s impact. The rest of the trio’s fourth album feels similarly explosive, vocalist and guitarist Jean Fossat leading the charge as the band largely shifts away from the more florid sci-fi prog of 2024’s mighty Ilion and deeper into a rarely traveled realm between the lands of Rush and Refused. That songs as complex and relentless as “Orbis Tertius” and “The Day Of Execution” were largely recorded in single takes elicits an additional measure of awe.” 8/10, UNCUT
“After the psychedelic Ilion, the Toulouse trio once again delivers a stunning album with a massive sound, as raging as it is cosmic: breathtaking.”
“Album of the Week (TTTT)”, Télérama
“Primal exorcisms destined to be even better live.” Classic Rock
“It has twists and turns that would make any prog-head squeal with delight, where this differs from other more indulgent twiddling is its welcome brevity of ideas, avenues and refrains rendering it all the more fresh and full of purpose, a mirror to its surreal epic songs of power, wresting from those with factional bad intent an optimism in our collective future, an expectancy that times pass and through suffering and strange heroic endeavours, we’ll get there.” 5/5, NARC
“The band’s devotion to the riff allows the music to mutate into new forms: The album’s eight songs feels spontaneous and free-form, never cycling back to repeat verses or choruses.” ★★★★ SLANT
“Whoo! I tell you what, I love this fucking feeling. A guttural scramble of a guitar riff? A guys bellowing over the top like he’s somehow trapped underneath the guitar riff and he needs you to rescue him? A chorus where all the dramatic stakes zoom upward? An extended trippy breakdown, followed by an even heavier riff? That’s the good shit. “The Day Of Execution,” the latest track from the French power trio Slift, is like the wind in your hair on a sunny day.” STEREOGUM
”[‘A Storm Of Wings’ is] every bit as mind-expanding, groove-based, and swirling as fans could hope for. The guitars are heavy and squealing, the bass is booming and pushed forward in the mix, and the vocals match the cut’s hypnotic intensity. It’s a dynamic, fantastic journey through the cosmos via fuzz tones and crash cymbals — what’s not to like?” “Songs of the Week,” Consequence
“The first single from the album is “A Storm With Wings,” a raging ripper that owes a lot to ’70s Detroit and ’90s Seattle and takes aim at corrupt politicians everywhere.” BROOKLYN VEGAN
“…They’re a group that have forged something that is theirs alone, sweeping from psych-drone territory into Tool-like mechanical riffage, hardcore vocals, and full-on space rock jams. ‘A Storm Of Wings’ is the first sample of the forthcoming album Fantasia (which is shaping up to be a lot less boring than the disappointing Disney film of the same name).” Guitar World
“After the psychedelic Ilion, the Toulouse trio once again delivers a stunning album with a massive sound, as raging as it is cosmic: breathtaking.” TTTT Télérama
“Intense, pummeling single…” [“A Storm Of Wings”] Our Culture
Fantasia
Tracklisting:
1. Fantasia
2. Corrupted Sky
3. The Village
4. A Storm of Wings
5. Orbis Tertius
6. Waiting Man
7. The Day of Execution
8. Secret Mirror