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HEARTSTEEL is back. Their second single is LIVE MY LIFE, and its release date is Friday, September 18 at 9am PT.

BAEKHYUN returns as Ezreal, three new artists join him, and Jon Bellion wrote and produced the track. Here's everything Riot has confirmed so far, plus all seven HEARTSTEEL skins already in the game.

How Riot announced it

The first sign came on Wednesday, September 9. League's social accounts and Riot Games Music posted a short teaser of an answering machine by a window, with the band leaving each other voicemails while they rush to get ready for something. Alune turns up in it too (she's Aphelios's sister, and she appears in person on his HEARTSTEEL skin).

Five days later Riot put a date on it. League of Legends posted on X on September 14:

Riot Games Music posted the date the same day. Maria Egan, Riot's Global Head of Music and Events, said this in the announcement:

Who's singing this time

BAEKHYUN is the only artist coming back from the 2023 lineup. The rest of the voices are new.

PARANOIA, the debut single, came out on October 23, 2023. On that track tobi lou voiced K'Sante, ØZI voiced Sett and Cal Scruby voiced Kayn. For LIVE MY LIFE, Anderson .Paak takes over K'Sante, Connor Price is Sett and Nic D is Kayn. .Paak is a nine-time Grammy winner. I didn't expect Riot to replace three of the four voices on a band whose first song worked this well, and it's the part of the news I'd pay the most attention to on release day.

Yone and Aphelios keep the same jobs inside the band. Yone's the producer. Aphelios plays and writes. Neither had an outside artist credited on PARANOIA, and Riot hasn't named one for them this time.

It's a three year gap between singles. Riot's framing is that the band comes back more confident and more comfortable with who they are, after a first song built on ambition and doubt.

What about new skins?

Riot hasn't announced any HEARTSTEEL skins with the single. The September 14 announcement covers the song, the release time and the lineup. The PBE's skin data, checked on September 15, still held only the seven skins from 2023, so nothing new had reached test servers by then.

What Riot has said is that the second act of this year's third season puts a bigger focus on music. That act is where anything in-game would land.

Every HEARTSTEEL skin in League of Legends

All seven launched together on November 8, 2023, in Patch 13.22, during Worlds. Six are regular store skins. Prestige HEARTSTEEL Yone was the event reward, bought with Worlds tokens. Counts here leave out chromas.