Amigo the Devil releases song written in wake of his house burning down

Amigo the Devil, aka singer-songwriter Danny Kiranos, has released his first new music since his 2024 album Yours Until The War Is Over. He wrote “New Kind of Lonely,” a contemplative ballad, after his house burned down. Here’s more from him about it:

Recorded in a hotel conference room while on tour in Tasmania, “New Kind of Lonely” gives birth to a reality where a re-routed future doesn’t have to mean failure after all. Our new song comes out on December 19th, 2025 and instead of a typical press release, I’m just going to rant for a bit as if we were friends catching up, because we kind of are.

Although still navigating the tragic loss of my home, my life…the cruelty of watching a lifetime of collecting and work burn itself to rubble, this song isn’t about that. It isn’t singular or momentary. When people ask for an explanation of what a song means or the process it was written through I often feel stuck. Do I make up this otherworldly, elaborate story of the greater gods and underworld energies fighting their way into my brain to create these 3 minutes in time? Were the lyrics hand delivered by a dying breed of beetle on an old world scroll? Do I force myself to feel so self aggrandized that it was all the spark of a genius and the brutal labor of wading in torment. Oh the fucking burden I carry blah blah blah. No…I just wrote it. That’s it. It happened to be the words that came to mind when I heard the melody in my head. That’s as simple as it usually is and hopefully as beautifully natural as it will ever be. The idea of glamorizing song writing into some hard labor or philosophic masterpiece, in my opinion, just takes away from the beauty of what songs are. They just are. Just like I am, and you are…and things are. Then they go, often without notice. That’s why it’s so important for me that people take songs for what they need them to be in that moment. Not everyone will have the same kind of lonely and expressing what mine was in the moment I wrote this song takes it away from everyone else’s purpose with it. These songs aren’t mine. The same way anyone else doing any other craft or trade will know. You show up, you do the work and then you leave it behind for others to enjoy. No one asks an electrician what inspired him to wire a house the way he did (I’m sure someone does but shut the fuck up, you get it, thank you). Whether you find yourself alone in a new space for the first time without your person by you. Whether you’re learning a new reality after leaving behind an addiction or circumstance…maybe said fuck this career and are starting over or you simply decided you don’t want to be who you have been and the terror crawls through your skin every time you reach out for comfort just to find nothing on the other end, the only place we find hope is in the perspective. Yes, it’s terrifying and yes it’s new. Whether it falls within the bounds of your planned life or is completely unfamiliar it is a chance to rebuild with all the knowledge you wish you had the first go around.

Out on the Australian tour a gentleman who came to multiple shows was flying home the same time we were so we had a small chat. This is days after recording this song with Talley. Of all the wonderful and brilliant things he said through our short chat in a tiny Tasmanian airport terminal, one sentiment stood out the most. Although specific in that moment to the fire and hope for reconstruction, I’ve applied it to everything else that would otherwise feel like failure or hardship in my life. He said “…don’t forget, you’re not starting from zero. You’re starting from experience.”

That’s the new kind of lonely that I’m hoping will bring a better tomorrow.
I hope you enjoy it and take whatever you need from it, if anything.
If not, I hope the days keep steady and the path is sturdy for you.
Don’t wait to enjoy anything in your life. You never know when the universe will take it back.

I’m grateful to you all.

Kiranos says he has more music on the way “over time.” Stay tuned, and listen to “New Kind of Lonely” below.

Amigo the Devil will be on tour in 2026, including a Cleveland show supporting Acid Bath and a run with The Dead South. See all dates below.

AMIGO THE DEVIL: 2026 TOUR DATES
Mar 13, 2026 Agora Theatre and Ballroom Cleveland, OH *
Jun 11, 2026 McMenamins Edgefield Portland, OR @
Jun 12, 2026 Marymoor Live Redmond, WA @
Jun 13, 2026 KettleHouse Amphitheater Bonner, MT @
Jun 14, 2026 Gesa Pavillion Spokane, WA @
Jun 17, 2026 ZooMontana Series Billings, MT @
Jun 19, 2026 Sandy Amphitheater Sandy, UT @
Jun 20, 2026 The Mission Ballroom Denver, CO @
Jun 21, 2026 The Lincoln Cheyenne, WY @
Jun 23, 2026 Rose Park Columbia, MO @
Jun 25, 2026 The Salt Shed Chicago, IL @
Jun 27, 2026 Vibrant Music Hall Des Moines, IA @
Jun 28, 2026 Everwise Amphitheater Indianapolis, IN @

* with Acid Bath, Midnight, Nunslaughter & Radian
@ with The Dead South