Just over a year after The Alarm’s Mike Peters lost his three-decade-long battle with cancer, his final album was released, and judging from the dozen songs on Transformation, he didn’t go quietly.
Far from being a somber affair, the songs off this last effort are loud, defiant, and anything but a man quietly settling into his fate. They started recording the album in the fall of 2024, pausing briefly for several treatments for his aggressive form of lymphoma. It was completed on January 15, 2025, the night before he began a new form of cell therapy that was meant to save his life.
You can hear both uncertainty and his determination to survive woven throughout the record. The optimism is obvious from the opening track, “New Life,” where he sings…

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