Hungarian masters WALL OF SLEEP have been moving through the underground for a long time now, dragging classic metal muscle, hard rock warmth, and traditional doom weight behind them like a very patient stone idol.
Formed in 2001 from the remains of MOOD, the band have built a career on thick riffs, twin-guitar harmonies, clean vocals, and that old-school sense that doom metal should feel both heavy and strangely noble. Not just melancholic. Not just slow.
Ceremonial.
Their latest record The Kingdom received the Fonogram Award in 2026, and now WALL OF SLEEP are preparing a special 25th anniversary EP titled Monolith. The release will feature five new songs, a newly recorded version of “Stabat Mater” from …And Hell Followed With Him, and a cover of Gary Moore’s “Out in the Fields” featuring Bob Macura of NEVERGREEN.
Today’s featured track is “Nothing Remains,” the first single from that upcoming EP.
But first, the band answers a very important question.
The Question:
“If your music had to summon a creature, what would appear?”
WALL OF SLEEP answer:
“Definitely Cthulhu or some other of the Great Ones. We think it would appreciate the heavy riffs and the melodic chants. Also, we have some ‘cult following’ too, that could add nicely to the worshippers of the Sleeping One in the Ocean. Just listen to ‘Letters Of The Sea’ from our ‘The Kingdom’ album, you’ll know what we are talking about.”
Honestly, fair.
If you are going to summon something ancient and oceanic, heavy riffs and melodic chants do seem like the correct paperwork.
WALL OF SLEEP – “Nothing Remains”
Now onto today’s offering.
“Nothing Remains” is the first taste of WALL OF SLEEP’s upcoming anniversary EP Monolith, a seven-track release the band still insists on calling an EP despite it apparently stretching close to 40 minutes. Doom bands and time: always a complicated relationship.
The song arrived July 10 as the first signal from a record designed to celebrate 25 years of the band’s existence. That means new material, a look back into their own catalog, and one unusual cover choice folded into the same stone chamber.
Musically, WALL OF SLEEP have always lived in that shadowy place where doomy classic heavy metal and hard rock shake hands by candlelight. The riffs carry weight, but they are not shapeless. The melodies move with purpose. The band’s best material has always understood that doom needs hooks just as badly as it needs atmosphere.
That is why the Cthulhu answer works so well. WALL OF SLEEP do not sound like chaos for chaos’ sake. They sound like a ritual with a setlist.
“Nothing Remains” opens the door to Monolith as both a new energetic chapter and an anniversary marker, the kind of release that looks backward without getting trapped there. After seven full-length albums, an EP, and more than two decades of Hungarian underground persistence, WALL OF SLEEP are still awake in the temple.
And apparently, something enormous beneath the sea is listening.
‘Nothing Remains’ streaming links – https://bfan.link/wall-of-sleep-nothing-remains
Monolith pre-order – https://shop.hmusic.hu/eloado/wall-of-sleep
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