Gorillaz announce new album ‘The Mountain’, out March 20th

Gorillaz took to social media to announce their ninth studio album entitled The Mountain will be released March 20th, 2026. In addition to the album announcement, the British virtual band also announced their forthcoming tour dates.

Fans can rejoice! The wait for new Gorillaz music officially has an end in sight. The Mountain is set to drop on March 20, 2026 via their new imprint KONG Studios, marking a milestone in their 25th year as a band. The virtual icons are once again evolving by delivering an expansive, cross-cultural journey that blends grief, celebration, and experimentation into a record unlike anything we’ve heard. Alongside the announcement comes the lead single, “The Happy Dictator” featuring Sparks, a satirical yet dance-ready cut that sets the tone for what’s to come.

Gorillaz frontman Damon Albarn and co-creator Jamie Hewlett have been candid that The Mountain is more than just fresh music, it’s an odyssey shaped by personal loss and spiritual rebirth. Much of the record was written and recorded while traveling across India, from Varanasi to Mumbai to Rajasthan, as well as in Damascus, Turkmenistan, and London. As Albarn explains, the intention was to embrace death, ritual, and transformation in a way that doesn’t turn its face to pain, but reframes it as vibrancy and connection.

The Mountain is also stacked with an array of features that span all genres. Artists such as Black Thought and Yasiin Bey, and Johnny Marr and IDLES, to Omar Souleyman and Anoushka Shankar, the album thrives on global voices. Posthumous contributions from legends including Bobby Womack, Tony Allen, Dennis Hopper, and Mark E. Smith anchor the record in Gorillaz’s history, bridging past collaborators into the future. Not to mention, the album stretches across five languages; English, Arabic, Hindi, Spanish, and Yoruba, making this their most linguistically and culturally diverse project to date.

While we have a little bit to go until the full release, we’ll be anticipating some of their most iconic work yet!