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.