Leeds alt-hardcore band Higher Power have digitally released their third studio album There’s Love In This World If You Want It today via Nuclear Blast Records. The physical version will follow on September 19 and is currently available for pre-order. Alongside the album, the band dropped a new video for the track “All The Rage,” now streaming on YouTube.
This marks a turning point for the band—There’s Love In This World If You Want It is the result of Higher Power taking full control of their creative process. “This album is the natural progression of Higher Power sonically and as a band,” vocalist Jimmy Wizard explains. “This is our first time consciously self-producing an album and I am, for once, genuinely excited to put something out that feels really authentic to us as individuals and where we are at as a band.”
The record arrives nearly a decade after the band first surfaced in the Yorkshire hardcore scene, where they initially paid homage to crossover acts like Leeway and Merauder. Their early shows—one in a basement shared with The Flex, another at an early Outbreak Fest—set the tone for a band driven by passion more than ambition. But in the years that followed, Higher Power’s trajectory took them far beyond their roots. They toured with acts like Alexisonfire, Knocked Loose, and Angel Du$t, and signed to Roadrunner Records for their 2020 LP 27 Miles Underwater.
Still, the farther they moved into the traditional industry ecosystem, the more they noticed a growing dissonance. The version of Higher Power shaped by outside forces wasn’t aligning with the one they had built from scratch. The new album pushes back against that disconnect. It’s built on instinct and self-trust rather than external validation. Peeling away expectations, the band returned to the experimental hybrid of sounds that first drew them together.
Across nine tracks, There’s Love In This World If You Want It filters hardcore energy through layered, psych-inflected textures. Songs like “All The Rage” tap into chaos and clarity in equal measure. The release is neither a throwback nor a pivot—it just sounds like a band figuring themselves out in real time, refusing to fit someone else’s blueprint.
The message behind the album reflects a larger personal journey. As expressed in the record’s announcement, the band acknowledges that inner peace is elusive but not unattainable. “You just need to work away a little bit to find it, digging deep and questioning yourself… there is always potential for that love, compassion and understanding of who you are to seep through.” That tension between struggle and possibility runs through the entire record—never simplified, never resolved, just present.
