ACRE Sets Official Dates for Mortis and Altar, and Maps the Rest of Its FLOCO Contract Through 2030

Aug 27

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FLOCO Public Relations August 27, 2026

ACRE has locked in firm release dates for its next two albums and confirmed the remainder of its recording commitment with FLOCO Music.

Mortis, the band’s long-teased grimdark concept record, arrives September 22, 2026. Altar, a full-length praise and worship LP and a sharp departure from ACRE’s usual weight, follows on November 11, 2026.

An earlier circulating date of August 12, 2026 for Altar was incorrect. Band member Matthew attached the wrong date when sharing work-in-progress material. That date is withdrawn. November 11 is official.

Why the order changed

Mortis is a blow-by-blow journey into a grimdark 40th-millennium future: space crusades, a galaxy at war, and a hellscape of demons and their “xeno” counterparts. ACRE has been folding those themes into earlier songs for years. This album is the full statement.

Altar was moved to sit in Mortis’s wake on purpose. The band and FLOCO Music wanted the worship record to land after the heaviest, darkest project of the cycle so the two releases offset each other instead of competing. Altar is still an LP. It is not a soft apology for Mortis. It is the other half of the same conviction.

What comes after

To clear the calendar for 2027 and finish the current deal, ACRE has committed to:

Two albums in 2027
One album in 2028
One album in 2029

That completes the remaining contract with FLOCO Music. After that, the label holds an option for a 2030 anthology of the best ACRE work from the past decade. Similar option language sits in agreements with other FLOCO artists.

The 2027 pair is already sketched:

A short praise-and-worship LP around Easter 2027, in the same lane as Altar.
A Halloween 2027 release: the band’s last passion project of this stretch, a Doom-themed album.

ACRE treats both Doom and Warhammer 40,000 as more than costume. In the band’s reading, Doom is not only prayer against evil; it is the decision to suit up and go to war with it. 40K, in the same light, is a futuristic crusade against literal demons and alien stand-ins. ACRE’s line is that those stories already rhyme with Catholic teaching the band grew up on, and that both records will use that fiction to talk about heresy, scandal, and spiritual combat in the present.

Rights, fan tributes, and a backup plan

A major remaining concern is how Games Workshop will treat fan work, and how much of Mortis it will allow. GW has recently shut down 40K fan channels on YouTube over minor issues, or over nothing that is easy to explain. The pattern of those strikes has not been consistent and by their own hand GW has done a lot of damage to their fan base.

If GW objects to Mortis as written, the band already prepared for it. Alternate lyrics were written for the tracks that are obvious hat-tips to 40K. Those songs could be re-recorded, the lyrics swapped, and the album still released. Doom is a different case. Its parent company, like many owners of fan-heavy IPs, has generally welcomed tribute work of this kind. The free marketing is the payoff.

Should a 40K rights issue force a recut, FLOCO Music will not put up a challenge and will pull the album. Realistic estimates put Mortis down for about four months for re-recording. That would move the re-launch to February 2027.

If that happens, FLOCO & Ink has already been in talks with a science-fiction author about building an original grimdark setting instead of leaning on 40K. The idea is a universe that steps into the bootleg miniature and alternate mini-wargaming scene now thriving on marketplaces such as Temu, driven by the rising cost of official 40K figures and fights over lore, including the major fan heresy surrounding the Female Adeptus Custodes (female bodyguards for the Emperor).

This would not be the first time GW and a fan series came to blows. In 2024, the popular satire studio FlashGitz, which had paid regular homage to the 40K universe in animation (giving GW plenty of free advertising and bringing more fans into the hobby), was hit with strikes and takedowns. That fight produced Space King, their own alternate universe take on 40K. While not overshadowing 40K, Space King has held its own. FLOCO and ACRE would rather avoid a similar split and simply put out a metal album that honors a pastime the band actually plays. Time will tell. Let us pray that GW accepts our offering and does not decide to exterminatius this project, 2 years in the making.

Mason on where the band is pointed

As the contract winds down, Mason put the direction this way:

“We have been wanting to make a hat tip to Doom and 40K for a while, and we have incorporated some of these themes into songs on our existing albums. Our albums have always been about standing witness to the heresy and scandals in the Christian faiths, all three. Given that most of the band is Catholic, they come through that lens, but each song reflects the greater Christian heritage of Catholicism, Orthodoxy, and Protestantism. Our music is a protest against the demons and heretics who are wolves in shepherds’ robes, turning the Church of Christ into a deranged abomination of Christianity bathed in demonic sin. We need more Christians to suit up as crusaders and push back hard against heresy. The SSPX can’t do all of the heavy lifting while everyone else sits back afraid to speak. Christ would have been flipping tables by now.”

A look ahead...

Release	Date	Notes
Mortis	September 22, 2026	Grimdark / 40K-inspired concept album
Altar	November 11, 2026	Praise & worship LP (August 12 leak was an error)
Untitled worship LP	Easter 2027	Short LP, in the vein of Altar
Untitled Doom album	Halloween / Fall 2027	Passion project
Untitled	2028	One album
Untitled	2029	Final album under current term
Best-of anthology (option)	2030	Decade retrospective, label option

Mortis first. Altar after it. Then two years of worship and war, then the rest of the term.

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