Release Date: July 10th 2026. Record Label: Ripple Music. Formats: CD/DD/Vinyl
Graves Of The Silent Plain - Tracklist
1.Ponderay
2.Abandonded to Decay
3.Erosion
4.Gold Mountain
5.Buried at Boot Hill
Members
Carson Russell: Guitars, Vocals
Rylie Collingwood: Bass, Vocals
Travis Abbott: Guitars, Vocals
Cameron Elgart: Drums, Guitar
Review
Graves Of The Silent Plate is the next chapter from Americana/Doom/Psych/Stoner Rockers Ealdor Bealu which allows them to transform into HEAVY DOOMED OUT NOMADS of a scorched Desert Rock landscape. This record allows Ealdor Bealu to move into different Post-Apocalyptic areas of the Doom, Psych and Stoner Metal worlds with a stripped back delivery that gives an unflinching style of music to be delivered from start to finish.
The songs can be quite progressive and brilliantly outlandish but Ealdor Bealu feel like they’re doing something truly original and demonically heavy with their Americana imagery which allows a fast-paced Desert Rock identity to fully form and move into sudden shifts of Drone Rock/Metal. The vocals are perhaps all over the place which I mean as a compliment with Ealdor Bealu having three vocalists to call upon with Carson Russell, Rylie Collingwood and Travis Abbott never feeling the need to outshine each other and perhaps work as one cool sounding collaborative unit.
Cameron Elgart’s understated and epic sense of drumming gives Ealdor Bealu a pure cinematic sound that thrives on a sense of adventure. Carson (Guitars), Rylie (Bass) and Travis (Guitar) take care of the more psychedelic and spaced out destructive grooves that helps the whole journey move into another dimension altogether.
Ealdor Bealu plays music inspired by the likes of EARTH, KYUSS and YAWNING MAN but with a fractured and slightly downbeat MELODIC sound that can be quite offbeat, left-field and sometimes depressing. However, Ealdor Bealu always finds the time and creative sound to develop long drawn out instrumental Desert Rock passages that merge the finer, darker and twisted elements of Folk, Drone, Psych, Sludge and Stoner Metal for something can be beautifully surreal.
All of the tracks are absolutely stunning and essential to listen to but if I need to choose my favourite aspects then I would say: Ponderay, Abandoned To Decay and Gold Mounting with Ealdor Bealu providing haunting and emotionally charging soundscapes where the lyrics can be downright gut-wrenching to listen to especially when Rylie takes the vocal spotlights mostly on the stunning third track Erosion.
Graves Of The Silent Plain never feels forced with Ealdor Bealu tapping into their Prog Rock, Folk Rock and Americana aspect of their sound for the majority of the album. Though, the band always manages to find ways to deliver epic instrumental soundscapes that become superbly destructive and mind-expanding all at the same time.
Ealdor Bealu thrive on being quite off-beat and highly experimental for this record which ranks as their most forward thinking and superbly creative to date. Graves Of The Silent Plain is a multi-layered and hypnotic audio experience that’s amazingly different with Ealdor Bealu once again proving why they’re an unstoppable force of nature that many bands don’t dare to tread.
Words by Steve Howe
Thanks to Purple Sage PR for the details.
