Power metal veterans MASTERPLAN have shared the official music video for "The Call," the fourth single from their forthcoming studio album "Metalmorphosis," arriving June 26, 2026 via Frontiers Music Srl. The release marks the most highly anticipated return in European power metal in recent memory: "Metalmorphosis" will be MASTERPLAN's first album of original material since 2013's Novum Initium — a gap of 13 years.
Founding guitarist Roland Grapow — one of the architects of HELLOWEEN's classic sound during the legendary Keeper of the Seven Keys era before his departure in 2001 — described "The Call" as the most complex and painstakingly crafted song on the record: "It feels like a prayer — just written in a modern way. We worked on this track longer than on any other." The result is a song that balances MASTERPLAN's signature melodic power metal with emotional depth and compositional ambition.
Grapow elaborated on the overall direction of "Metalmorphosis," framing it as a deliberate course correction toward heavier, more direct metal: "A transformation, but still true to the spirit of MASTERPLAN. We've grown over the years, both as musicians and as people." He noted that the album was conceived approximately five years ago, with the intention of steering away from the more commercial and progressive tendencies of their earlier work.
"Metalmorphosis" comprises 10 tracks — "Chase The Light," "Electric Nights," "Shadow Man," "Bound To Fall," "Pain Of Yesterday," "Metalmorphosis," "Through The Storm," "Ghostlight," "The Call," and "Rise Again" — and arrives after MASTERPLAN departed longtime label AFM Records in favour of Frontiers, citing improved artist relations and renewed creative support.
The series of singles leading up to the album has shown a band operating with genuine purpose. "Electric Nights," described by Grapow as their "road anthem — loud, fast, and born for life on tour," established the harder edge of the record. "Through The Storm" showed the band's capacity for melodic depth. "The Call," the most introspective of the four advance tracks, rounds out the picture of an album with considerable range.
Vocalist Jørn Lande, one of the most powerful voices in power metal and a name synonymous with the genre's Norwegian wing, is absolutely central to MASTERPLAN's identity. His presence on "The Call" gives the track immediate gravity, and his and Grapow's creative partnership — forged across the band's strongest records MasterPlan (2003) and Aeronautics (2005) — appears fully reinvigorated.
For fans of melodic and power metal who have waited over a decade, June 26 cannot arrive soon enough. MASTERPLAN return not with nostalgia, but with conviction.