[Post Punk/Alternative/Metal] Uncle Hauk - "Lose Your Illusions"
Band/Artist: Uncle Hauk
Release Title: Lose Your Illusions
Release Date: May 2, 2026
Label: Baldur Rising Music
Format: Digital
Genre: Post Punk/Alternative/Metal
Country: USA
Lose Your Illusions is the new album from Uncle Hauk, the solo project of multi-instrumentalist Hauk Heimdallsman. Across nine tracks, the record moves through post-punk, alternative rock, metal, jazz, and hard rock, following the perspective of someone who has seen enough loss and disappointment to stop pretending life is fair. It is a dark, restless album, but not a hopeless one.
A line like “The world is on fire, but I dream of rain” captures the tension that runs through the record. Lose Your Illusions sits in that space between collapse and endurance, where bitterness, grief, defiance, and the will to keep going all exist at once. Hauk’s background in projects such as Black Hat Society and Elf Queen shows in the album’s wide musical range, which brings together heavy guitars, acoustic textures, keyboards, programming, and saxophone work without forcing the songs into a single mold.
The album will be available on Bandcamp on May 1, 2026, followed by its full streaming release on May 2, 2026. It was recorded at Talonspan Studios in Escalon, California, with Quentin Marshall Purviance handling drums and percussion, while Hauk wrote, produced, recorded, mixed, and mastered the album himself.
Tracklist:
1. Tsunami
2. Only the Living
3. It Doesn't End Well
4. The World is On Fire
5. Alive in Deaths Shadow
6. Toothache
7. Stormy
8. Oceans
9. Iron Strong
Line-up:
Uncle Hauk - vocals, bass, electric guitars, 12-string guitar, acoustic guitar, banjo, lap steel, keyboards and programming, soprano saxophone, alto saxophone, tenor saxophone
Quentin Marshall Purviance - drums and percussion
Recording info:
Recorded at Talonspan Studios, Escalon, California
Published by Baldur Rising Music SESAC, 2026
All songs written, produced, recorded, mixed, and mastered by Uncle Hauk
For fans of: New Model Army, Lake of Tears, Paradise Lost
Links:
Website: https://www.haukrules.com
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/haukmusic
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/haukrules
YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@haukrules
Bandcamp: https://hauk.bandcamp.com
Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/artist/39L6sKa8iSpoIYwlIoal7l?si=6WpoKwBPQUew3U0p3ONHOg
Apple Music: https://music.apple.com/us/artist/uncle-hauk/1692324673
Subvert: https://alpha.subvert.fm/uncle-hauk
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