BEARTOOTH Shares Music Video For 'Beautiful Again' From 'Pure Ecstasy' Album

BEARTOOTH has just released its new album, "Pure Ecstasy", via Fearless Records. The record, BEARTOOTH's first full-length for the label, finds the band operating at full force, channeling the intensity that has defined their career into one of BEARTOOTH's most immediate and expansive releases yet. Written, recorded, and largely produced by BEARTOOTH frontman Caleb Shomo, "Pure Ecstasy" — which landed on NPR's NMF longlist today — pushes the band's sound further, balancing massive hooks and crushing heaviness with some of their most personal songwriting to date. Select collaborations with Jordan Fish (BRING ME THE HORIZON, Halsey, GOOD CHARLOTTE) helped bring a new dimension to the album.

Along with the album release, BEARTOOTH has shared the official music video for "Beautiful Again". Shomo states about the song: "It perfectly depicts the duality of my headspace while writing the album. Pure joy and pure despair, nothing in between."

BEARTOOTH will support "Pure Ecstasy" with the massive "Pure Ecstasy World Tour" that kicks off September 17 in Europe. The North American leg begins on November 11 in Boston and includes stops at New York City's Hammerstein Ballroom on November 12 and The Hollywood Palladium in Los Angeles on December 18. Special guests DON BROCO, MAGNOLIA PARK and WINDWAKER are the support for the U.S. dates.

BEARTOOTH has become one of the most vibrant, and visceral forces in modern rock. Over the last decade, the Columbus, Ohio band led by Caleb Shomo has built a massive following by fusing hardcore intensity, arena-sized hooks, and unflinching emotional honesty into songs that resonate far beyond the boundaries of heavy music. In an era where a new generation of heavy bands increasingly dominates streaming services, TikTok, and legendary venues like Madison Square Garden, BEARTOOTH have emerged as one of the movement's defining acts — standing alongside BRING ME THE HORIZON, PIERCE THE VEIL and BAD OMENS as the new leaders of the collision between heavy rock and melody.

Following the chart-dominating success of 2023's "The Surface" — which debuted at No. 1 on Billboard's Alternative and Hard Music charts and produced the No. 1 rock radio hits "Might Love Myself" and "I Was Alive" — BEARTOOTH entered a new creative and commercial stratosphere. "Pure Ecstasy", the band's sixth album and first with new label home Fearless Records, builds on that momentum while expanding into even more ambitious territory, capturing Shomo reckoning with both the darkest and brightest parts of himself in real time. At 11 tracks in under 40 minutes, "Pure Ecstasy" wastes no time getting to the point. Bigger, sharper, and more exposed than anything BEARTOOTH has released before, the album channels both the chaos and clarity of hard-won growth into some of the most direct and unguarded songs of Shomo's career.

The title track throws listeners directly into the turbulence at the center of the record.

"'Pure Ecstasy' was birthed in a studio with Misha Mansoor, ridiculous loudspeakers, and the dumbest heaviest chugs we could chug," Shomo says. "Once it was brought home and expanded on with Jordan Fish, there was no question it was the album opener." Raw, overwhelming, and disorienting in all the right ways, it's an undeniable statement of intent.

Elsewhere on the album, "Free" pairs towering hooks and radical self-examination, capturing Shomo refusing to hide from himself any longer.

"The song is the start of the next chapter of my music and my life," Shomo says. "The emotional roller coaster that is living can be very complicated at times. In one day you can equally experience pure fear and pure joy. 'Free' is the most honest depiction of my soul I will most likely ever make."

"Eyes Closed" and "Beautiful Again" continue to push BEARTOOTH's balance of crushing heaviness and melodic immediacy into new territory.

"There are so many fun riffs to play on 'Eyes Closed'," notes Shomo. "It was so fun to scream out and let go. The song was written from the ground up with Jordan, and the moment it was a demo, we knew we had something special."

He continues: "'Beautiful Again' was the first song written during the sessions with Jordan after we wrote free a few months prior. He was adamant that I dig in and write about exactly what I'm going through and how I feel. To me, this song perfectly depicts the duality of my headspace while writing the album. Pure joy and pure despair, nothing in between." Together with the title track and "Free", they reveal an album that feels simultaneously monumental and deeply human — songs written for longtime outsiders and iconoclasts while opening the door to an entirely new audience.

The honesty found across "Pure Ecstasy" has always been the foundation of BEARTOOTH. Shomo started the project in his Ohio basement in 2013, producing and playing every instrument on songs that transformed anxiety, depression, anger, and isolation into something fans could scream back at the world. Over time, BEARTOOTH became both bomb and balm — a vehicle for turning pain and self-destruction into songs that resonate with millions worldwide.

What began as an intensely personal outlet has evolved into one of modern rock's most powerful success stories, from the gold-certified "Hated" and platinum "In Between" to sold-out tours and a rapidly expanding global audience.

Yet "Pure Ecstasy" represents something different. Bigger and more open than any previous BEARTOOTH album, the record finds Caleb Shomo stretching himself toward a new level of vulnerability — and for the first time, he didn't do it alone. Where earlier BEARTOOTH records often documented survival, "Pure Ecstasy" wrestles with what comes after: acceptance, self-awareness, confronting every fractured part of yourself without looking away, and ultimately, letting people in.

While BEARTOOTH historically functioned almost entirely as Shomo's solo vision in the studio, "Pure Ecstasy" became the project's most collaborative album to date. Early songwriting contributions from Skyler Accord (ISSUES, TWENTY ONE PILOTS, BILMURI) helped shape tracks including "For Me By Me". Meanwhile, working alongside Fish (BRING ME THE HORIZON, Poppy, ARCHITECTS) cracked Caleb fully open, pushing a rawer examination than ever before. Caleb calls the process "the single scariest thing I've ever done," but knows the result is a gift.

"He was feeling those things with me and pushing me to express them," Shomo says of Fish. "Every time I felt like I didn't have it, he'd carry me to the finish line — and every time, a few days later, I'd listen back and think, 'I'm so glad I didn't back off. I'm so glad I didn't hide.'"

The collaborative spirit continued throughout the recording sessions. Bassist Oshie Bichar (by Caleb's side since 2014),guitarists Zach Huston and Will Deely, and drummer Connor Denis — who have evolved into a formidable live unit around Shomo — all played larger roles than ever before. "Pure Ecstasy" also marks the first BEARTOOTH album where Shomo did not perform every instrument himself, with Denis performing on all the songs, many captured in complete takes, at NRG Recording Studios.

For years, BEARTOOTH turned pain into anthems shouted back at the world. "Pure Ecstasy" captures what happens on the other side of that fight: not perfection or peace, but the possibility of freedom. It's the sound of Shomo stepping fully into the light, no longer hiding from the parts of himself he once tried to outrun. And looking back, the journey was always written in the titles — "Sick", "Disgusting", "Aggressive", "Disease", "Below", "The Surface". "Pure Ecstasy" was always where it was heading.

Photo credit: Ashley Osborn