New Eric Church Album, ‘Evangeline vs The Machine’, Appears in Apple Music with May 2nd Release Date

A new Eric Church album, titled Evangeline vs The Machine, has appeared in Apple Music in New Zealand, with the surprise project listed as being released on May 2nd, 2025.

The record features ‘Hands Of Time’, which Eric Church had confirmed would be arriving tomorrow (Thursday, March 20th). Seeing as it has already gone midnight in New Zealand, fans there visited Church's page in Apple Music to look for the new track, but were instead greeted with a full pre-release for Evangeline vs The Machine.

Alongside ‘Hands Of Time’, Evangeline vs The Machine seemingly includes unreleased offerings such as ‘Bleed On Paper’, ‘Storm In Their Blood’, ‘Evangeline’, ‘Rocket's White Lincoln’ and ‘Clap Hands’, as well as with the previously teased ‘Johnny’.

Eric Church performed a rousing rendition of ‘Johnny’ with a choir during CRS 2025, with Church penning the visceral track about the Nashville Covenant School shooting.

Completing the prospective tracklist for Evangeline vs The Machine is ‘Darkest Hour’, which The Chief released back in October, with all proceeds going towards North Carolina's Hurricane Helene relief effort. That single version was shared with the parenthesis ‘(Helene Edit)’, so it seems we might be getting a different album cut.

The ‘Springsteen’ hitmaker is yet to confirm whether Evangeline vs The Machine truly is the name of his new studio album, or whether the release date is indeed May 2nd, 2025.

We suspect Eric Church will officially unveil the eagerly anticipated project tomorrow, in tandem with the arrival of ‘Hands Of Time’ in the US. It comes after Church shared a cryptic video of a woman donning the Greek sigma letter, stylised as an ‘E’, which is also emblazoned across the Evangeline vs The Machine album artwork.

For the full rumoured tracklist to Eric Church's 2025 album, Evangeline vs The Machine, see below:

1. Hands Of Time

2. Bleed On Paper

3. Johnny

4. Storm In Their Blood

5. Darkest Hour

6. Evangeline

7. Rocket's White Lincoln

8. Clap Hands

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