What happens when technology promises to bring back someone you’ve lost—and the price is your own peace of mind? That’s the disturbing question at the heart of Severed Angel’s new progressive-metal concept album The Cost of Creation, arriving December 11, 2026, through NoLifeTilMetal Records.
The nine-track, hour-long record follows a character using artificial intelligence and robotics to recreate deceased loved ones. The band is already sharing “Mirage of Love” and “Binary Code,” and the record closes with an 18-minute epic. This is a concept with real emotional stakes, and guitar player Lou Mavs and drummer Wayne Noon are available for interviews.
Official Press Release
SEVERED ANGEL Returns With Fourth Studio Album, The Cost of Creation
NEW YORK (November 6, 2026) — Formed in 2022 by drummer Wayne Noon (Phoenix Reign, Project Resurrect, Absolon), Severed Angel brings together bassist George Dimitri (Taz, Timeless Haunt), keyboardist Marc Muchnik (The Nightmare Stage), vocalist/guitarist Alex Repetti (Infinite Spectrum, Tension Rising), and guitarist Lou Mavs (The Rebel Medium, Doc Reinhart).
Following the self-titled 2023 debut, 2024’s Skyward and 2025’s When Eternity Ends, the band returns with its most ambitious project: a nine-song, hour-long progressive metal concept album exploring grief, memory, identity and artificial intelligence, out December 11. Rather than preaching about technology, the story follows a protagonist using AI and robotics to recreate deceased loved ones, with devastating psychological consequences.
Influences include Dream Theater, Queensrÿche, Rush and Fear Factory, with Morse-code-inspired rhythms. Guest features include Gail Bourque and Ken Pike on “Just One Kiss.” The album concludes with the 18-minute “Immanence or Transcendence?”
Tracklist
- Overture: Symphony of Circuits
- A Smart Device
- When I Grow Up
- Just One Kiss
- Binary Code
- Chasing Echoes
- Mirage of Love
- Digital Deception
- Immanence or Transcendence?
Lineup: Alex Repetti — vocals/guitars; George Dimitri — bass; Lou Mavs — guitars; Marc Muchnik — keyboards; Wayne Noon — drums.
Produced, mixed and mastered by Alex Repetti.
Official website / preorder | Bandcamp | “Mirage of Love” lyric video | “Binary Code”
Press: Michael Brandvold Marketing & Management — me@mikebrandvold.com. Wayne Noon and Lou Mavs are available for interviews.