Transformation, the last Alarm studio album recorded by Mike Peters, who succumbed to cancer in 2025, is scheduled for May 29 via Twenty First Century Recordings/Virgin Music Group. It is now available for presale at the band's official webstore (thealarm.com).

 

“Mike lived a life of beauty and never gave up right to the very end,” says Jules Peters, the singer/guitarist's bandmate and wife. The latest single, “Live Today” just premiered. 

 

Filmed just days before Mike underwent the innovative CAR-T treatment with hopes of eradicating Richter’s Syndrome, an aggressive form of lymphoma, “Live Today” is Mike’s final video.

 

“As the sun rose, watching Mike perform this song with so much optimism and hope will live with me forever,” said Jules. “It was a bittersweet day for me as we filmed this incredible joyous film on the beach in the North of England. After filming concluded, we climbed onto the tour bus and drove straight to the Christie Hospital in Manchester, U.K.. We were full of determination that the pioneering CAR-T would save Mike’s life but, at the same time, I was personally terrified as I couldn’t shake off a feeling that cancer had finally caught up with us both.”

 

The video shows Mike performing without any hint of weakness, though his health was ailing at the time. “This video is such a difficult watch,” Jules said. “It broke my heart… but it captures the eternal essence of Mike Peters that keeps us coming back to him and his incredible songs time after time.”

 

Recording sessions for Transformation began spontaneously on October 7, 2024, and after various life-interventions, it was finally completed on the evening of January 15, 2025 - the night before he began his CAR-T therapy.

 

First single “Chimera” was poised as an allegorical rebirth when it was released on January 23, 2025 - the exact day his CAR-T therapy began. Symbolically encapsulating the Greek mythos of a chimera which embodies the characteristics of different animals into one body, Mike envisioned that he himself would become like the fabled creature. “When I have CAR-T therapy I will literally become chimeric,” stated Mike at the time. “There will be two types of blood flowing inside of me. Two individual types of DNA.”

Mike Peters first rose to prominence in the early 1980s with the original lineup of The Alarm, and enjoyed hit singles like "68 Guns," "Rain in the Summertime" and "45 RPM." Diagnosed with lymphoma in 1995 and later with chronic lymphocytic leukemia, Peters refused to let his illness silence him. Instead, he turned his fight into a mission to help others.