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artist: Stonebirds
title: Perpetual Wasteland
year: 2025
genre: Metal
type: Album
label: Ripple Music
language: EN
rel. date: 2025-10-10
source: WEB/MP3
quality: CBR 320kbps / 44.1 kHz / Joint Stereo
runtime: 00:39:30
size: 90.6 MiB / 6 tracks
rip date: 2026-06-26
source url: https://open.qobuz.com/album/ezt0ji0tnhpla
tracklist:
01. Circles 6:25
02. Croak 5:28
03. So Far Away 8:17
04. Sea of Sorrow 6:18
05. Lit by Fire 5:11
06. The Last Time 7:53
release notes:
For over a decade, STONEBIRDS have thrived on duality: the eternal
tension between opposing forces, with melancholy as their guiding
equilibrium. Now, with their fourth and final album "Perpetual
Wasteland", the Breton trio distills their essence one last time: light
against darkness, crushing weight against fragile levity, and a newfound
undercurrent of renewal amidst the void.
Recorded at Studio La Briche with producer Cyrille Gachet (Fange, Year of
No Light), the album marks a seismic shift in sound: incisive,
extroverted, and meticulously layered, yet sharper than ever. Here, the
band's sludge-drenched doom collides with soaring post-metal grandeur,
crafting an epitaph that is as nuanced as it is uncompromising.
Thematically, "Perpetual Wasteland" is a visceral meditation on collapse
and transcendence. Drawing from haunting imagery of ecological decay,
human isolation, and the elusive promise of deliverance, STONEBIRDS weave
desperation into something strangely luminous. The riffs are tectonic,
the melodies achingly sparse, each note a frayed thread in a tapestry of
ruin. Yet within the chaos, there's revelation: a fleeting brilliance,
like light through cracked earth. This is the end, but not without fire.