Marking the first release from their upcoming debut album, Danish alt rock band Sunraker delivers a dark and melodic statement of intent with Siberia — an emotional detonation where drive and melancholy collide.
Siberia is released today May 9th 2025 as the first in a series of singles leading up to Sunraker’s debut album, set to release this fall. The band will perform live in their home city of Copenhagen at this year’s infamous one-day festival Teufel Bash tomorrow, May 10th at 9.30 PM.
Led by award-winning composer and frontman Sophus Alf (best known for composing the soundtrack to the acclaimed video game Deep Rock Galactic), the Copenhagen-based alt-rock quartet steps into a sonic landscape where melodic urgency collides with desperate stillness. It’s a world shaped by post-punk, goth rock, and shoegaze, setting the stage for the song’s tragic themes of loss and sorrow.
“It’s like speeding through emptiness,” Alf reflects. “Everything’s moving, but you’re stuck. That’s the feeling — grief that’s gone cold. Frozen. Like being trapped in a mental no man’s land where nothing moves forward.”
With lines like “It’s a long way home, and I can’t move at all” and “Like a childless father I bow”, Siberia builds to a violent and explosive climax, releasing the song’s emotional tension in full force. The production mirrors that tension with towering guitar layers, pounding drums, and vocal arrangements that shift between the intimate and the all-consuming.
It’s vast. It’s beautiful. And it hurts.
Following two singles and a critically acclaimed live EP, Sunraker now unveil their forthcoming debut album, set for release this fall. Years in the making, the album marks a new era for the band – a sonic journey where introspection and desperation wrestle in a cathartic alt-rock landscape.
Formed in 2022 at the crossroads of long-standing musical bonds and fresh creative energy, Sunraker consists of Sophus Alf (vocals/guitar), Louie Sears (lead guitar), Mikkel Skibye (drums), and Lasse Mortensen (bass) – four musicians united by a shared fascination with the echoes of post-punk’s shadows and the emotive dissonance of 90s alt-rock.