A.A. Williams Unleashes ‘Poison’: Beauty, Chaos and Total Self-Destruction Collide on Solstice.
- Rock Metal Machine
- Apr 25
- 3 min read
A.A. WILLIAMS
British artist A.A. WILLIAMS, acclaimed and defined by her musical interplay of fragility and force, unveils today the artwork and track list for her striking new full-length album Solstice, set for release on June 5, 2026 through RPM, alongside the video for her powerful new single 'Poison'.
A.A. WILLIAMS says “'Poison' is a song of learning not to fear freedom. Restraints slowly melt away, you push yourself, you long for more. Recklessness begins to consume reason, limitations are forgotten, euphoria and self-sabotage look like one and the same. Desperate to satisfy the craving you torch everything you’ve built. As the old world crumbles, and you rise, unafraid.“ Immersed in a shadowy, dreamlike —or perhaps nightmarish— world where darkness meets elegance, A.A. WILLIAMS together with visionary collective Gruppa13 (renowned for their stunning work with artists like BEHEMOTH or IGORRR), crafted a hauntingly powerful visual suspended between vulnerability and something far more unsettling.
Play it and let it consume you:
Solstice finds A.A. WILLIAMS standing at the threshold between shadow and renewal, shaping songs that feel carved from storms and starlight. Known for her haunting vocals, cinematic dynamics and emotional clarity, WILLIAMS expands her sonic world with music that moves like a ritual through shifting seasons. Moments of stark intimacy open into surging crescendos as guitars swell and crash like gathering weather, anchored by a formidable sense of weight and scale. Strings glow with fragile warmth before giving way to waves of heavy distortion and all-encompassing catharsis, while her voice rises from quiet confession to commanding intensity.
Drawn from years of global touring, acclaimed collaborations and boundary-pushing reinterpretations, Solstice captures an artist in full command of her craft. The album is intimate yet immense, delicate yet thunderous - guiding listeners through darkness with both vulnerability and force toward a distant, resolute dawn.
Solstice track list:
1. Poison
2. Wolves
3. Little By Little
4. Hold It Together
5. Outlines
6. I've Seen Enough
7. The Veil
8. Just A Shadow
9. It Won't Rain Forever
10. Breathe
11. The Gentle Harm
Pre-Order: https://aawilliams.rpm.link/solsticePR
A.A. WILLIAMS live [tickets]:
09/05 - DK Copenhagen, A Colossal Weekend
23/05 - DE Leipzig, Wave Gotik Treffen
03/06 - PL Gdansk, Mystic Festival
05/06 - FI Tampere, Ankea Festival
13/06 - IT Ferrara Summer Fest w/ A Perfect Circle
18/06 - HR Zagreb, SRC Salata w/ A Perfect Circle
23/06 - NL Tilburg, 013 w/ A Perfect Circle
24/06 - NL Amsterdam, AFAS Live w/ A Perfect Circle
07/08 - CZ Jaromer, Brutal Assault
22/08 - UK Bristol, Arctangent Festival
29/08 - NL Maastricht, Pelagic Fest
About A.A. WILLIAMS
Having made her debut live appearance at the prestigious Roadburn Festival in the Netherlands off the back of a self-titled EP, A.A. WILLIAMS has since toured across the globe with the likes of CULT OF LUNA, EXPLOSIONS IN THE SKY, RUSSIAN CIRCLES, SLEEP TOKEN and THE SISTERS OF MERCY, as well as establishing herself as a headline artist - including a show at the iconic Queen Elizabeth Hall inside London's Southbank Centre.
Standout festival appearances have dovetailed with two album releases - 2020's "Forever Blue" and 2022's "As The Moon Rests" - both of which received widespread critical acclaim and placed A.A. WILLIAMS at the forefront of a wave of artists taking textured, epic and folk-rooted heavy music into new and progressive directions. A BBC session at the legendary Maida Vale Studios only bolstered her credentials.
Never one to rest on her laurels, she has also released a series of 'companion pieces': a collaborative single with Japanese post-rock titans MONO ("Exit In Darkness"); a solo covers collection recorded during 2020's pandemic lockdown - "Songs From Isolation" - that drew praise from THE CURE's Robert Smith and SMASHING PUMPKINS' Billy Corgan; and perhaps most impressively, 2021's arco, in which the multi-instrumentalist completely reworked her debut EP from rock instrumentation to string ensemble, drawing on her classical training to stunning effect.
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