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Brittany-based post-metal architects STONEBIRDS deliver a visceral meditation on human collapse with their fourth studio album “Perpetual Wasteland”, streaming in its entirety ahead of its release this Friday 10th October on Ripple Music.
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“Stonebirds expand their sound, spiking their trademark
psych/doom with a healthy helping of shoegaze.” – Daily Bandcamp
“Stonebirds takes us into their melancholic and powerful universe,
stirring our minds and hearts with their anguished and ferocious music.” – Metal Rock Magazine
“An addictive record.” – MetalleriumFor 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 sees their trademark sludge-drenched doom colliding with soaring post-metal grandeur. Drawing from haunting thematics of ecological decay, human isolation, and the elusive promise of deliverance, STONEBIRDS weave desperation into something strangely luminous, pairing tectonic metallic riffs with heartrending vocals to find fleeting brilliance in the ruin. This is their boldest and most emotional record to date and a spectacular epitaph — one that will violently sweep you out to sea only to spit you back out onto the shore, changed forever. Watch their latest video for Sea of Sorrow!
STONEBIRDS “Perpetual Wasteland”
Out October 10th on Ripple Music (LP/CD)
STONEBIRDS is a French trio formed in 2008 and hailing from Central Brittany—a land that has never ceased to fuel their songwriting and distinctive sound. Abandoned villages, forgotten inhabitants, landscapes left behind by the modern economy, ghostly places haunted by ancient legends and contemporary rural decay, oppressive dampness, storm-lit horizons… These images feed an anguished and tormented doom metal, giving birth to their 2015 debut album, “Into The Fog… And The Filthy Air”.
The record carved its own path between sludge, psychedelic and prog rock and post-metal — a direction further solidified with 2017’s sophomore effort, “Time”. More radical and dynamic, the album contrasted crushing metal riffs with luminous arpeggios, all drenched in poisonous reverb. Drawing inspiration from the luminous heaviness of Yob and Cult Of Luna, the Breton trio won over sludge and doom audiences, sharing stages with the likes of Ufomammut, Mars Red Sky, Glowsun, and Alunah, while storming festivals such as Hellfest and Motocultor.
Their 2020 album “Collapse and Fail” was hailed their “darkest and fiercest work to date” by critics. Across forty minutes of razor-edged sludge and post-metal, the trio propelled their craftsmanship to stratospheric heights, weaving a complex, masterfully brutal, yet at times ethereal tapestry, all the while echoing mankind’s bleak fate. Since then, STONEBIRDS have continued to evolve, channeling the raw spirit of their homeland into music that is as haunting as it is hypnotic. With new material on the horizon, the band remains a vital force in the underground, forging ahead with the same unflinching intensity that has defined their journey thus far.
STONEBIRDS is
Fanch Le Corre – Guitars, Vocals, Keyboards
Sylvain Colas – Bass, Vocals
Antoine Delhumeau – Drums, Keyboards
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