Josiah Queen is officially heading down the Damascus Road - and judging from the newly revealed tracklist, he is not taking the quiet route.
The Christian music breakout has unveiled the 14 songs that will make up his third studio album, Damascus Road, arriving October 23, 2026. The project follows 2025's chart-topping Mt. Zion and finds Queen loading the record with titles involving demons, Judas, heaven, paradise, the Second Coming and, naturally, the Damascus Road itself.
And yes, the tracklist is every bit as unapologetically Christian as that sounds.
The big reveal came as Queen rolled out his newest single, "sundays," which carries an interesting twist: his fans helped choose it. Queen invited listeners into the decision-making process before releasing the song on August 14, effectively allowing his audience to help decide which piece of the new era they would hear next.
Here is the complete Damascus Road tracklist:
- out of breath
- demons
- sundays
- when I see You
- judas
- galaxies
- damascus road
- amazing!
- make heaven crowded
- fire in my soul
- paradise
- only God Almighty
- a day with the Lord
- Jesus is coming back soon
The titles alone suggest Queen isn't interested in watering things down for crossover appeal. Instead, Damascus Road appears to be doubling down on the very thing that has fueled his extraordinary rise: songs that sound contemporary while speaking openly about Jesus, spiritual warfare, eternity and salvation.
Several pieces of the album have already escaped into the wild.
Queen kicked off his 2026 music with "demons" in January, followed by "judas" in March, "make heaven crowded" in May and "AMAZING!" in July. His official release archive confirms that steady breadcrumb trail, meaning fans have essentially been hearing Damascus Road take shape for months without having the entire map in front of them.
But perhaps the juiciest part of the tracklist is what hasn't been heard yet.
What exactly is happening on "when I see You"? How big does "galaxies" get? Is "fire in my soul" a worship anthem, a testimony, or something more autobiographical? And putting a song called "Jesus is coming back soon" in the closing position certainly doesn't sound accidental.
Even the album title carries some serious narrative baggage. In Acts 9, the road to Damascus is where Saul's journey is dramatically interrupted by the risen Jesus, transforming Christianity's persecutor into the man who would become Paul the apostle. Calling an album Damascus Road therefore immediately evokes conversion, confrontation and radical change.
Queen has the audience to make such an uncompromising record matter. His official biography reports more than 1.3 billion combined global streams, while breakout song "The Prodigal" has passed 200 million streams. "Dusty Bibles" became his first Billboard Hot 100 entry and earned Gold certification in less than six months, while Mt. Zion reached No. 1 on Billboard's Top Christian Albums chart.
That makes Damascus Road a particularly fascinating next move. Queen could easily have softened the religious language as his audience expanded. Instead, he has apparently made an album containing songs called "demons," "judas," "only God Almighty" and "Jesus is coming back soon."
Subtle, it isn't.
And the timing couldn't be much hotter. Queen enters the new album cycle with seven GMA Dove Award nominations, according to the announcement accompanying "sundays."
There is also something refreshingly old-school about the album's apparent trajectory. Beginning with "out of breath" and ending with "Jesus is coming back soon," the tracklist reads almost like a spiritual journey: exhaustion, demons, ordinary Sundays, betrayal, wonder, Damascus, heaven, fire, paradise, God and finally Christ's return.
Whether that sequence tells an intentional story will become clearer when the full record arrives. But Queen certainly knows how to make a tracklist feel like more than fourteen filenames.
Damascus Road arrives October 23 with 14 tracks.
