London, UK - Queen has released a lost song featuring their late band member Freddie Mercury for the first time in more than eight years.

After teasing the release of the rediscovered tune, Face It Alone was finally unleashed on Thursday.

The power ballad was originally recorded during the British rock band's 1988 sessions for their album The Miracle, but remained among those that did not make the final cut.

It was later found when the band's production and archive team returned to the sessions to work on the upcoming reissue of the album.

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The single is the first new song released featuring Mercury since 2014's Queen Forever album which included three previously unheard tracks with the singer, titled Let Me In Your Heart Again, Love Kills, and There Must Be More to Life Than This.

Queen's original band - consisting of Mercury, Brian May, Roger Taylor, and John Deacon - was founded in 1970 and together created some of music's most popular songs of all time, including Bohemian Rhapsody and We Will Rock You.

The legendary former Queen frontman is considered one of the greatest rock vocalists of all time, and died from AIDS-related complications in 1991 at the age of 45.

The band currently tours with Adam Lambert as its frontman.

Speaking about the newly released track, May said: "I'm happy that our team were able to find this track.

"After all these years, it's great to hear all four of us, yes, Deacy is there too, working in the studio on a great song idea which never quite got completed... until now."

Taylor added: "We'd kind of forgotten about this track but there it was, this little gem.

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"It's wonderful, a real discovery. It's a very passionate piece."

The song's arrival comes ahead of the upcoming reissue of the band's 13th album The Miracle, first released in 1989. The album - which included tracks I Want It All, Breakthru, and The Invisible Man - reached number one in the UK.

The new edition will be available in an eight-disc collector's box set format. Among its contents, the expanded set includes The Miracle Sessions, an hour-plus disc of further previously unreleased recordings, including six unpublished songs.

It also includes the band's spoken exchanges on the studio floor in London and Montreux, giving a revealing window into the four members' creative process and their personal relationships.

Queen's The Miracle collector's edition will be released on November 18.