OUR GRAVES announces new album ‘Age of Agony’, out 13 August
Oakland electro-industrial project OUR GRAVES will release “Age of Agony” on 13 August 2026, led by singles “Driven to Ruin” and “March with the Dead.”
Oakland-based electro-industrial project OUR GRAVES will release a new album, Age of Agony, on 13 August 2026. The ten-track record fuses the intensity of aggrotech with the clean mechanical drive of EBM. Founder Ron Graves leads the release with two advance tracks, “Driven to Ruin” and “March with the Dead.”
“Age of Agony” runs ten tracks: “Age of Agony,” “March with the Dead,” “Driven to Ruin,” “Follow the Leader,” “Blackout Revelation,” “Hate Machine,” “Sacrifice Eternally,” “Are You Ready,” “Broken Circuitry,” and “Destroy the Silence.” The album will be available on all major streaming platforms alongside the Bandcamp release.
Ron Graves on the direction of ‘Age of Agony’
Graves addresses the shift in direction between his two albums, describing a move from exploration toward a more focused statement:
Until now, I was testing the boundaries of the project’s sound. With Age of Agony, the goal was to sharpen it. I wanted to move past exploration and create something fierce and intentional to help myself and others find connection in the anger and fear of watching society go to shit and being powerless to change things.
About OUR GRAVES
OUR GRAVES is an Oakland, California electro-industrial project founded in 2024 by Ron Graves, who also works under Suicide Queen. The project released its debut album, “System Overload,” on 4 October 2024, a ten-track record that grew out of a period of grief and reflection following the loss of Graves’ father, with tracks addressing societal decay, personal struggle and oppressive institutions. OUR GRAVES followed with the single “Comply or Die” on 25 November 2025, released as a three-track record pairing the title track with remixes of “Self Destruction” and “Intruder.” “Age of Agony” is OUR GRAVES’ second full-length album, arriving 13 August 2026 and continuing the project’s electro-industrial and EBM direction.
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