Adelaide hard rockers Audio Reign are pushing further into the next chapter of their career with new single “Right Wrong Love Hate”, the second taste of forthcoming album Resurgam, due in 2027.
For a band that has spent more than a decade building its music around themes of self-belief, resilience and finding the strength to push forward, the new single feels firmly connected to everything Audio Reign have stood for while widening the conversation around personal responsibility.
“Right Wrong Love Hate” looks at the choices we make, the way we treat the people around us and the consequences that can come from allowing toxic behaviour, peer pressure and hatred to dictate our actions.
At the centre of it is a fairly simple question.
When you are given the choice between right and wrong, love and hate, what do you choose?
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Choices Have Consequences
There is an immediacy to the title “Right Wrong Love Hate” that works because there is not much room for ambiguity.
Those four words set up the opposing forces the song is built around, but Audio Reign are not presenting the subject as something happening somewhere else or somebody else’s responsibility. The focus comes back to the individual and the role our own words, actions and decisions play in creating the environment around us.
It is easy to point toward toxicity when it comes from someone else. It can be considerably harder to look at how our own behaviour contributes to it.
That sense of accountability gives the track more weight than simply delivering an anti-hate message. It asks the listener to consider which side of that divide their own choices are feeding.
For frontman Jake Fleming, those ideas connect directly with the wider message behind Resurgam.
He explains:
“Audio Reign’s music has always been about self belief and empowerment. Resurgam is a continuation of that message, but it goes deeper, it’s about overcoming adversity, finding your inner strength and having the courage to rise above whatever life puts in your way.”
That feels like an important distinction for where Audio Reign are heading.
Self-belief has always been an easy phrase to throw around in rock music, but Resurgam appears interested in digging further into what actually comes with it. Strength is not simply about pushing through your own battles. Sometimes it means taking responsibility for your decisions, refusing to follow destructive behaviour and understanding the effect you can have on somebody else’s life.
Audio Reign Build Toward Resurgam
“Right Wrong Love Hate” follows “New Way To Live”, which opened the campaign for the band’s next album and began introducing this new era of Audio Reign.
With Resurgam, the Adelaide rockers are building on a career that now stretches beyond a decade and includes three albums, while continuing to establish their own place within Australian hard rock.
Along the way they have shared stages with Skillet, Pop Evil, Amaranthe and Kip Winger, giving the band opportunities to put their music in front of audiences across different corners of the hard rock and metal world.
A significant step arrived in 2023 when Audio Reign signed with Australian label XMusic and released The Perfect Sea. The album went on to reach #15 on the ARIA Australian Artist Albums Chart, giving the band another milestone after years of steadily building from their Adelaide base.
Now the focus turns toward what comes next.
The title Resurgam itself carries the idea of rising again, and based on Fleming’s description of the record, that concept runs much deeper than simply announcing another album cycle. This is a record centred around adversity, inner strength and finding the courage to keep moving when circumstances give you every reason not to.
“New Way To Live” started that conversation, and “Right Wrong Love Hate” expands it by shifting some of the focus outward and examining the choices we make when dealing with other people.
That gives the emerging album a broader emotional framework. Rather than repeating one motivational message across a collection of songs, Audio Reign appear to be approaching resilience and empowerment from different angles.
The Next Chapter For Audio Reign
There is something to be said for a band reaching this point in its career and still wanting to move the conversation forward.
After more than ten years, Audio Reign already have a history behind them, but Resurgam is not being presented as a record interested in simply revisiting it.
The first two singles suggest a band thinking about where experience has brought them and what lessons are worth carrying into whatever comes next.
For “Right Wrong Love Hate”, that lesson comes back to accountability.
There will always be pressure from other people. There will always be anger, division and opportunities to add more negativity to the pile. What Audio Reign are arguing is that none of that completely removes individual choice.
You still decide what you contribute.
And sometimes the strongest thing you can do is choose differently.
With Resurgam coming in 2027, there is plenty more of this next chapter still to be revealed, but “Right Wrong Love Hate” gives Audio Reign another strong foundation to build from.
For an Adelaide band that has spent years pushing its message of belief and perseverance, rising again seems like a pretty fitting place to go next.
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