Black Eyes Update 19: New Album

Hostile Design is out on Dischord October 11 (preorder link below); shows in DC, LA, SF, Montreál, Toronto, Pittsburgh, Providence, and Chicago to follow

Aug 13, 2025

Hostile Design is out October 11

We are very pleased to announce that our third album, Hostile Design, will be out on October 11 via Dischord Records. You can preorder it and hear the first single, “Pestilence,” here.

The album was written over fifteen months, between August 2023 and November 2024, and was recorded at Tonal Park studios over three days, with Ian MacKaye resuming his role as producer and Don Godwin engineering. The instrumentation returns to Cough’s two drums, bass, guitar and sax lineup, but adds some fresh elements: live multichannel dubbing, now a standard of our shows, has been integrated into the performances, as have electronic drum triggers and samples as well as the occasional bass clarinet passage.

Speaking in Tongues Festival Tickets

In honor of the album’s release, we have organized a four night festival in Washington DC. We’re performing at Black Cat on October 11 - the final night, and the same day as the record release. Here’s a ticket link for our performance.

Black Eyes at Black Cat: 10/11

Tickets for the rest of the festival can be found here:

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