Exclusive Album Premiere Of Sludge/Post-Metallers STONEBIRDS Thrilling New Album PERPETUAL WASTELAND

Sludge and Post-Metal merchants STONEBIRDS release their epic new album Perpetual Wasteland via Ripple Music this Friday. What to expect from the album, well think deep, dark and conscious heavy in the vein of Amenra, Year of No Light, Neurosis and you have the perfect ingredients for a bruising encounter of the highest order.

Thanks to the awesome folks over at Purple Sage PR and Ripple Music we're proud to present the new album in full with this exclusive album premiere.

The trio perfects their signature duality of crushing weight and majestic levity, offering a meditation on collapse and transcendence by weaving themes of ecological decay and human isolation into something strangely hopeful, pairing tectonic metallic riffs with heartrending vocals to find fleeting brilliance in the ruin. This is their boldest 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.

You can buy the album on CD, Digital and Vinyl from the links below:

Ripple Music BandCamp | Stonebirds BandCamp

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Thanks to Purple Sage PR for all of the details.

StoneBirds - TIME (Album Review)

Release date: October 20th 2017. Label: Studio Kerwax. Format: CD/DD

Time – Tracklisting

1.I

2.Sacrifice

3.Blackened sky

4.Only time

5.Shutter part I

6.Shutter part II

7.Animals 08:08

8.II

Members

Fañch

Sylvain

Antoine

Alx

Review

I don't know why certain French Stoner Metal bands change their sound to a more dark, adventerous and intense sound. Wheelfall went from Desert/Stoner Metal to Post-Black/Sludge Metal and Los Disidentes Del Sucio Motel recently went from Stoner Metal to a more hard-hitting Sludge/Stoner sounds. Now it's StoneBirds to venture into the darker side of Sludge/Post-metal.

StoneBirds last album released in 2015 was firmly within the Sludge/Stoner metal side of things but the band return with a heavier and more chaotic sound. As their new album, Time – feels influenced by bands such as YOB, Neurosis, ISIS (The Band) and Cult Of Luna. It's a gloomy and epic post-metal affair with StoneBirds showing a wide range of different themes and ideas buried within their music and lyrics that are held on the album.

Opening track – I – is an instrumental post-sludge/post-doom affair with the song creating a bleak and sombre mood.

Second track – Sacrifice – is packed full of epic sludgy sounds that drift from Neurosis sludge/post-metal style passages to YOB doom based chants.

Third track – Blackened Sky – is a myriad of different sounds with StoneBirds playing moments of Post-Stoner, Sludge, Post-Rock/Post-Metal and shades of Psychedelic Jazzy sounds that gives the album a more dreamlike effect. The song can be very haunting and emotional at times as StoneBirds slow the mood down.

The album only moves further into heavier and darker musical territory on songs such as Only Time, Shutter Part 1 and Shutter Part 2. The final two songs Animals and II are perhaps the standout songs on the album as the band convey a sense of mysterious dread within the final sounds of the album.

Time is where you see StoneBirds full transformation into the new Overlords of Doom and Gloom. The album is beautifully produced and sounds incredible from the start. Time can be very violent at times but the album also has a soulful passionate side that you cannot ignore.

Overall this is an exquisite, brutally heavy and emotionally intense album. It simply doesn't get any better than this.

Words by Steve Howe

Thanks to Claire at Purple Sage PR for the promo. Time will be available to buy on CD/DD from October 20th 2017.

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