Melbourne metalcore outfit Windwaker have dropped the new, four-song EP ‘Enter The Wall‘ today, February 15, via Cooking Vinyl Australia & Fearless Records. The band will debut their latest tunes live at Knotfest Australia next week — tickets on sale now.
The band has shared the video for The Wall. Watch here. The Wall is a fusion of technical guitars with sporadic synths that makes this song so unsettling yet satisfying. The song is built around a southern hip-hop groove led with a mixture of gravely raps and manic screams, evolving around a backdrop of unrelenting metal passages. The track is as fun as it is fierce.
Lyrically, the song is a “reference to staring absently into a void,” the band states. Windwaker continue. “It’s the moment when reality crumbles away around you, leaving you with nothing but your own thoughts. Visually, it paints the picture of a person sitting in a dimly lit room at night as a black hole mercilessly sucks away the environment around them piece by piece. The main hook repeats twice in the same way a thought circulates in your mind. It always leads back to the same conclusion, setting off that thought again, and again, and again…”
The Australian outfit— Liam Guinane [vocals] Jesse Crofts [guitar], Indey Salvestro [bass], Chris Lalic [drums, programming], and Connor Robins [synths and samples] —have grown a dedicated and passionate fanbase, amassing millions of digital streams since their inception in 2017. SIRENS has cracked over 2 million Spotify streams in just a few months and saw the band travel across the nation in celebration on the ‘Love In The Dark’ tour with Caskets (UK) and alt., selling out nearly every date along the way.
The band’s debut album ‘Love Language’ released in 2022 via Cooking Vinyl Australia & Fearless Records, demonstrating an unpredictable and undeniable exploration of love across 12 tracks. The band have carved their name into the core of Australia’s alternative music community and have toured alongside some of metal’s most favoured acts— Beartooth (US), I Prevail (US), Motionless In White (US), Enter Shikari (UK), Caskets (UK), Creeper (UK), Northlane and more.
Stay tuned for more from the band… because it’s coming. The ‘Enter The Wall’ EP is out now and streaming everywhere via Cooking Vinyl Australia & Fearless Records.
