Lunatic Soul, the Polish outfit lead by Riverside’s main composer and vocalist/bassist Mariusz Duda is launching a next new single and official video today for the song “The New End,” taken from their 8th studio album “The World Under Unsun”, to be released on October 31st, 2025 worldwide (excluding Poland) via InsideOut Music.
Check out the double-album’s closing track “The New End” — which features music and lyrics composed as well as all instruments performed by Mariusz Duda — in a video created by Oskar Szramka via the YouTube player below:
Mariusz Duda checked in with the following comment about the song:
“’The New End’ is a farewell piece, a song that closes an important chapter of life, summing it up, ends the new Lunatic Soul album and at the same time the entire story made up of eight albums. It speaks of the fact that even if something comes to an end, it will forever remain a part of us.”
Recorded, mixed and mastered by Magda and Robert Srzedniccy at Serakos Studio, Warsaw, Poland, “The World Under Unsun” is a true double-album containing a total of 14 tracks across almost 90 minutes of playing time, with the following tracklist:
CD1 (44:48):
1. The World Under Unsun (06:58)
2. Loop of Fate (06:19)
3. Good Memories Don’t Want to Die (04:45)
4. Monsters (04:27)
5. The Prophecy (06:42)
6. Mind Obscured, Heart Eclipsed (11:42)
7. Torn in Two (03:55)
CD2 (44:58):
1. Hands Made of Lead (08:04)
2. Ardour (04:26)
3. Game Called Life (09:41)
4. Confession (04:26)
5. Parallels (03:17)
6. Self in Distorted Glass (10:25)
7. The New End (04:29)
“The World Under Unsun” will be available in the following formats and vinyl variants (All coming in Gatefold sleeve on 180g vinyl with 4page LP-Booklet) from InsideOut Music in Europe:
– Ltd. 2CD Mediabook
– Gatefold Black 2LP / Unlimited
– Ltd. Gatefold Transparent Sun Yellow-Red Marbled 2LP (500x copies, available from www.insideoutshop.de; www.jpc.de, www.justforkicks.de & www.burningshed.com)
– Ltd. Gatefold Brick Red 2LP (300x copies, available from Lunatic Soul)
– Digital Album
And the album’s Pre-Order in its various formats is started today HERE
Lunatic Soul is the solo outfit of the creator, vocalist, and multi-instrumentalist Mariusz Duda. Duda is best known as the frontman of the Polish Progressive Rock band Riverside, where he is the main composer, lyricist, vocalist, and bassist. In 2008, he launched a separate outlet in which, as he says himself, he wanted to create something different and uncompromising.
Lunatic Soul is inspired by artists such as Dead Can Dance, Peter Gabriel (especially his “Passion” album), Mike Oldfield, Clannad, Hedningarna and Depeche Mode. It’s an attempt to blend Ambient Music and Electronic Music with Folk and Rock influences. Duda plays almost all the instruments himself, with occasional guest appearances from invited musicians.
While the artist doesn’t reject the label of Progressive Rock, he believes that “Lunatic Soul gives me more room for musical originality than Riverside.” For this reason, he doesn’t like Lunatic Soul being referred to as a “side project.” “To me, there’s nothing secondary about Lunatic Soul. Musically and conceptually, it’s an equally important musical world – if not more important. Here, I can do literally anything.”
Since its inception in 2008, Lunatic Soul have released seven full-length albums and 2025 will see the release of the 8th album “The World Under Unsun” via Inside Out Music internationally and Mystic Production in Poland. All eight albums form what is known as the “The Circle of Life and Death,” a cohesive story in which a solitary artist-traveller journeys between life and death.
Stay tuned for many more news about Lunatic Soul and “The World Under Unsun” to follow soon…