Belgian metalcore veterans return with their first full-length album in fourteen years – out September 12, 2026.

Check out their latest single/video “Back Down” here:

Artist	X-POZED
Album	A Cure For Worse
Release	September 12, 2026
Genre	Metalcore / Hardcore / Nu-metal
For fans of	Killswitch Engage, Hatebreed, Pro-Pain, Gojira, Bury Tomorrow, Parkway Drive
Release show	12 September 2026 – Charlatan, Ghent, Belgium – with Turpentine Valley & Kerker

Belgian metalcore band X-POZED will release their second studio album, ‘A Cure For Worse’, on September 12, 2026. The ten-track record is the band’s first full-length since 2012’s ‘Essence Of Hope’ and arrives after a remarkable second chapter that saw the reunited original line-up win the 2024 Alcatraz Bash, perform at Alcatraz Open Air and rebuild its momentum on club and festival stages. As X-POZED head toward their 20th anniversary in 2027, ‘A Cure For Worse’ turns nearly two decades of history, frustration, resilience and renewed purpose into the band’s most focused statement yet.

A Cure For Worse – The Album

‘A Cure For Worse is an album about what happens after damage has been done. Across ten songs, X-POZED move through betrayal, anger, psychological pressure, toxic cycles, revenge, forgiveness, the need for support and the stubborn search for better days. Rather than presenting healing as clean or easy, the record embraces its contradictions: sometimes survival begins in rage, sometimes in confrontation, sometimes by asking to be pulled out, and sometimes by letting go. Its ultimate message is one of resilience – the scars remain, but they do not get to decide what comes next.

Three Songs, Three Sides of the Record

“Back Down” captures the album’s defiant core: resilience, confrontation and the refusal to be buried by what came before. “Forgiveness”, featuring guest vocals by Fleur Van Zuilen of MARCH, marks an emotional turning point, reaching for release without pretending the damage has disappeared. Closing track “Better Days” looks beyond the darkness and leaves the record on a note of hard-earned hope – not a perfect resolution, but a decision to keep moving forward.

In Their Own Words

With ‘A Cure For Worse’, we never wanted to turn our backs on what has always defined X-POZED: crushing riffs, heavy grooves, energetic drums and aggressive, powerful vocals. We wanted to take that foundation and push everything up another level — heavier, tighter, more dynamic and more melodic where the songs called for it. Somewhere between the raw hardcore impact of Hatebreed and Pro-Pain, the melodic power of Killswitch Engage and the sheer weight and groove of Gojira — but always sounding like X-POZED.
“We didn’t want to reinvent the band. We wanted to build the strongest version of it.” — X-POZED

A Band With History – And a Second Wind

X-POZED were founded in West Flanders, Belgium, in 2007. During their first run, the band developed an energetic blend of metalcore, hardcore and nu-metal, released debut album ‘Essence Of Hope’ in 2012 and played beyond Belgium. After an extended hiatus, the original line-up reunited – not to recreate the past, but to see how far the band could still be pushed. That return grew into something much bigger than a reunion. In 2024, X-POZED won the Alcatraz Bash from a field of more than one hundred Belgian bands, earning a slot at Alcatraz Open Air in Kortrijk. The single “Back Down” later became a key calling card for the band’s second chapter.

First picture:  ‘Alcatraz Open Air’ 2024
Second picture: Left ‘Rock voor Specials’ 2026
Photography by Tania Foré

Press Response & Momentum

The comeback has translated into growing media and live attention. Coverage of the band’s Alcatraz performance highlighted X-POZED as an energetic and convincing live force, while a 2025 Rockportaal review of their show with Cobra The Impaler described them as a strong metalcore act and suggested that Alcatraz would not be their last major highlight.
“Back Down” connected that live momentum with the new album era. The official video has now passed 33,000 YouTube views, while Luminous Dash described the song as a powerful display of X-POZED’s strengths and later selected it among its five best Belgian singles of 2025.

Album Release Show – September 12, 2026

X-POZED will celebrate the release of ‘A Cure For Worse’ on the day the album arrives: September 12, 2026, at Charlatan in Ghent, Belgium, with Turpentine Valley and Kerker. The show marks the live launch of the band’s next chapter and brings the new record to the stage in one of Ghent’s best-known live venues.
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Album Tracklist

The Martyr / The Symptom
Back Down
Darkest Days
No Tolerance
Forgiveness (feat. Fleur Van Zuilen of MARCH)
Through Suffering
The Moment
Endless Cycles
Bail Me Out
Better Days

Production & Artwork

Recorded by X-POZED and Lander Cluyse at Studio Hearse, Heule, Belgium
Produced, mixed and mastered by Lander Cluyse
Album artwork by Eveline Bouttens, Pascal Beernaert, Hendrik Holderick and Dieter Berton
Photography by Tania Foré

The Next Chapter

Nearly twenty years after X-POZED first formed, ‘A Cure For Worse’ is not a celebration of survival for its own sake. It is a record about movement – taking everything the band has lived through and turning it into something heavier, sharper and forward-looking. With history behind them, renewed momentum underneath them and a new album ready for the stage, X-POZED enter this cycle with no intention of slowing down.

X-POZED Are

Jeroen Berton – Vocals
Alexander Decuyper – Guitar & Vocals
Jonas Tack – Guitar
Dieter Berton – Bass & Vocals
Frederik Devinck – Drums