Adam Lambert announces sixth solo album Adam, shares fiery new single Eat U Alive

Adam Lambert has announced a new studio album titled Adam, his sixth solo record, due for release on July 10 via his own imprint with distribution through The Orchard. Fans can pre-order the album here.

Alongside the announcement Lambert dropped a lead single, “Eat U Alive”, which arrived on Friday May 8. The track leans into anthemic, high-energy territory: a chorus designed to cut through arenas and streaming playlists alike while staking out a more overtly 1990s alternative and electronic palette than his recent output.

“EAT U ALIVE is the perfect primer into my next musical chapter,” Lambert said, framing the song as an entry point for the rest of the record. “I wanted to create songs that fit into a world reminiscent of the music that made a formative impact on me in the 90s and early 00’s. Nine Inch Nails, Björk, Prince, Muse, Goldfrapp, Daft Punk, George Michael, Massive Attack and The Crystal Method are just a few who inspired the sound.”

“The album explores both the light and shade of life and the razor’s edge that separates a positive experience from a negative one,” he continued. “I hope these songs connect with anyone who has been through the confusing but necessary process of self-acceptance. There was a real liberation in acknowledging my own weaknesses and strengths.

Accepting the bad and the good all together. Revolutionary for someone who always thought of himself as a perfectionist and idealist.”

Adam Lambert ‘Adam’ artwork. CREDIT: Press

This is Lambert’s first batch of original material since his critically noted Broadway turn in Cabaret at the Kit Kat Club two years ago, and it follows his appearance in Jesus Christ Superstar at the Hollywood Bowl in August 2025, where he played “Judas” opposite Cynthia Erivo as “Jesus.” That stretch of theatrical work reframed public perception of Lambert as a vocalist and performer, and now he is steering back toward a studio record that deliberately mines the textures of 90s alt, electronica and the glossy, rhythmic pop-leaning production that inspired him.

Lambert first hinted that new solo work was imminent during an NME interview surrounding his performance at the “Trans Mission” benefit at Wembley Arena earlier this year, a night that raised funds for the Good Law Project and Not A Phase.

Backstage he was careful to set expectations about his work with Queen, saying there was nothing new from the band on the immediate horizon while confirming he had been developing a solo project “for the past year-and-a-half.” “There is definitely new music on the horizon. I cant give too many details yet about what that is, but its a whole new situation, so Im excited to unveil that soon,” he added, and noted plans to share it at some point “in 2026.”

What matters here is timing and texture. Releasing an album under his own label and partnering with The Orchard signals a degree of control and independence in how Lambert wants this next chapter handled, at once commercially savvy and artistically intentional. The move to foreground 90s influences and electronic instrumentation is less a nostalgic stunt than a deliberate repositioning: Lambert is translating the era’s darker, more experimental production into the language of contemporary pop-rock, while carrying the vocal bravado that made him a match for stadium stages and theatrical centers alike.

Whether “Eat U Alive” becomes the hook that threads the record together or merely the bold opening statement, Adam arrives as a career moment that asks listeners to reconcile the theatrical, arena and recording-artist facets of Lambert’s identity under one sound.