Australian rockers Twelve Foot Ninja have announced their new studio album Vengeance today.

Releasing on October 15 via Volkanik Music, this album is part of a multimedia project for the band called Project Vengeance. Released today, fans can read the Vengeance graphic novel, which finds the Twelve Foot Ninja traveling to other dimensions to take down evil. The graphic novel was written by guitarist/producer Stevic Mackay with artwork by George Evangelista. A high fantasy novel titled The Wyvern and The Wolf will also be unveiled on October 15. The book, which was written by Nicholas Snelling, tells the tale of an orphaned samurai boy named Kiyoshi adopted by the ruthless leader of a clan of ninja.

The first single from Vengeance titled “Start The Fire” can be heard below. Mackay said this about the song and its accompanying music video:

“’Start The Fire’ drew lyrical inspiration from Todd Phillips and Scott Silver’s portrayal of the Joker. When you start treating people according to broad prejudice, they’re left with little reason not to become what they’re supposedly guilty of already being. It’s a self-fulfilling prophecy.”
The video concept revolves around the threat of total annihilation. The strung-up band is being injected with a copper-based enzyme that, when mixed with human blood, can be extracted to power up current collector fuel cells (purposed for reanimating Primordian bio-technology). The band’s performance is a shared, mutual delusion. It’s all pretty straight-forward, really.”

Mackay also discussed Project Vengeance:

“This is an exorcism of content that’s spent a decade in gestation. ‘Catharsis’ is close to what it feels like to finally share Kiyoshi’s story; and I guess respond to all questions pertaining to our name; All this time, so many have thought ‘Twelve Foot Ninja’ was tongue-in-cheek, when in actuality, the story’s genesis occurred a year before the formation of the band. I really hope our fans enjoy the vastness of what we’ve created, and we’re able to continue to surprise people with new methods of storytelling.”

Pre-orders for Vengeance, which is the follow-up to Twelve Foot Ninja’s 2016 studio album Outlier, can be made here.