Chastity confront the ghosts of home on new LP ‘I Built This Prison Myself’

Chastity is for the skids, the headbangers, the freaks — for anyone who’s ever felt trapped inside a place, a life, or a version of themselves they never chose. Since Brandon Williams started the project in Whitby, Ontario back in 2015, Chastity has built its whole world around that suburban ache, turning songs into an outstretched hand and community into a survival tactic.

On November 13, 2026, Chastity returns with a new full-length called ‘I Built This Prison Myself’ — a record about fighting for yourself, tooth and nail. It’s Williams’ most narrative work to date, spun from a story that’s haunted his hometown for generations: the Whitby Psychiatric Hospital, and the 1976 fire set by a 16-year-old patient who burned a massive barn to the ground on the hospital’s grounds. The album imagines the boy behind that fire not as some symbol of destruction, but as a kid grappling with fear, powerlessness, control, and the desperate hope of staying himself.

The title works both ways — accusation and admission. ‘I Built This Prison Myself’ asks what happens when the things that confine us get internalized, when the walls we build to survive start closing in on us too, and the parts of ourselves we fought hardest to protect start looking a little too much like the things keeping us trapped. Across the album’s 10 tracks, Williams keeps circling back to one gut-punch of a question: what if the parts of you that everyone else calls broken are actually the parts most worth saving?

Listen to Misled Youth

‘I Built This Prison Myself’ barrels through melodic hardcore, shoegaze, and punk, landing after a genuinely wild few years for the band. Chastity’s hometown didn’t have venues for independent punk, so they started throwing their own shows in a barn out on Whitby’s rural edge — and people showed up. Before long, scene stalwarts like PUP and Metz were making the trip out to headline, with show profits going straight to a regional youth mental health service. From there, Chastity hit the road internationally, sharing stages with Sunny Day Real Estate, Alexisonfire, Deafheaven, and more.

These new songs pick up the thread from Chastity’s catalog — the conceptual mortality of 2018’s breakthrough ‘Death Lust’, through the anxious spiral of 2019’s ‘Home Made Satan’, the search for happiness on 2022’s ‘Suffer Summer’, and the raw autobiography of 2024’s ‘Chastity’. On ‘I Built This Prison Myself’, Williams turns the lens back outward, using a piece of Whitby’s past to dig into questions that are still painfully relevant today.

‘I Built This Prison Myself’ track list

1. Blink and See God
2. Don’t Lose the Feeling
3. Jesus Christ Superstore
4. Misled Youth
5. Error of My Ways
6. Fighting
7. So Alive I Cry
8. No One
9. Seeing Red
10. Making Peace with the Horrors of Being Me

Pre-order ‘I Built This Prison Myself’ here.

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