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Waiting [For Joy], a great first album for Harmonic Permanent Drive

Harmonic Permanent Drive is an indus-tinged noise rock project by 4 experienced artists from the independent scene. Waiting [for Joy], their debut album, is a superbly crafted and subtle sonic material that puts the pressure on and generates constant tension.

The album plunges listeners into an intense exploration of sound, with each track evoking a dark and disturbed universe.
From Graveyard onwards, the band transforms the cemetery into a place of inner chaos, where saturated synths create a devastating storm before giving way to devastating tension. This climate of violence and loss of bearings continues on The Fuckin’ Way, a brawling track where the heart-rending choices, like sharp stones, shatter the soul. The noise-ridden refrains mark the inner struggle between desire and disillusionment.


This tortuous path leads to Waiting [for Joy], a track that illustrates, according to Syn-Anton, ‘the vain expectation of an impossible joy’. Bells, like doom-laden sentinels, hammer out the death knell in the background through the bass/guitar combo’. The heavy atmosphere of Waiting [for Joy] continues on Our Living Place, where the fusion of electro textures and Floydian refrains reinforces the impression of a world in decline, a place where lost voices whisper in an omnipresent malaise.

The quest for meaning becomes even more introspective on Monkey in My Brain, where madness gradually sets in, and The World Has Stopped, which depicts an unrecognisable, suffocating world, backed by an Alice Cooper-style guitar. The urgency of the inner explosion is heard in Is There Something to Kill, where the question of liberation is raised like a desperate cry. On My Hand evokes a silent pain where every tear symbolises deep despair. With Holy Glory, this introspection becomes an oppressive wandering, amplified by growing musical tension. Finally, Stuck in a Life concludes the album with a sense of total alienation, frozen in heady dissonant rhythms.

Éric Martin – guitar, lead vocal / project manager
Syn-Anton – machines, vocals / industrial engineering
Aurélien Esquivet – bass / operations research
Étienne Gaillochet – drums, vocals / quality control

Produced by Fuzz-Wire
Recorded at Le ventre de la baleine
Mixed and mastered by Fred Nout
Photographs by MarieXXme
Design nd artwork by Aurélien Esquivet
Released by Juste Une Trace
Release date : 25-04-2025

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WAITING FOR JOY (CD) here

Graveyard by Harmonic Permanent Drive

With Graveyard, Harmonic Permanent Drive sets the tone: an intense first single where rage, tension, and disorientation collide.

A surge of tension and urgency. With Graveyard, Harmonic Permanent Drive lays the groundwork for a noise rock that is written in fury and collapse. This first excerpt from the album Waiting [for Joy], to be released on April 25th, propels the listener into an atmosphere where rage clashes with nothingness, where each sound resonates like a call to survive in a world in ruins. Abrasive guitars, saturated synth layers, and an implacable rhythm section outline the contours of uncontrollable chaos. Graveyard offers a catchy melody with an infectious chorus that imprints itself on the mind and stays in your head all day. But amidst the ashes, something persists. A beat. A tension that refuses to die out.

Here, violence and loss take center stage. Dissonant guitars dig into the void, while pulsing rhythms and industrial textures create a sense of unease.

‘It’s a track that explores inner desolation and the loss of bearings, driven by an energy reminiscent of Queens of the Stone Age, opening the album, Graveyard hits hard with an explosive start,’ says Éric Martin.

A brief moment of respite occurs: the instruments resume their frantic race, where each note seems to accentuate the underlying chaos. ‘Successive rises of synth into saturation on a frenzied rhythm, followed by a pause marked by a set of cinematic strings, before the guitar and bass resolve into the intoxication of speed and plunge the listener into a sonic whirlwind,’ adds Éric Martin. The intensity of the composition finds a direct echo in the lyrics, notably through this key phrase: ‘NOWHERE TO BE, NOWHERE TO LIVE.’

To accompany the release of the single, the group unveils a raw and intense music video, reflecting their stage approach, directed by Mariexxme. The dynamic editing and visual treatment reinforce the nervousness of the track. Everything is filmed on stage, a logical choice for these experienced musicians (We Insist! Treponem Pal…).

Between haunting echoes and pure devastation, Graveyard is an implacable descent into the existential void, where nothing seems stable, and where everything is on the verge of decomposition.

This is just the beginning. The storm is coming.

Listen to and share GRAVEYARD

Éric Martin – guitar, lead vocal / project manager
Syn-Anton – machines, vocals / industrial engineering
Aurélien Esquivet – bass / operations research
Étienne Gaillochet – drums, vocals / quality control

Produced by Fuzz-Wire
Recorded at Le ventre de la baleine
Mixed and mastered by Fred Nout
Photographs by MarieXXme
Design nd artwork by Aurélien Esquivet
Released by Juste Une Trace
Release date : 25-04-2025

More about HARMONIC PERMANENT DRIVE

PRE-SALE WAITING FOR JOY (CD) here

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