German instrumental stoner/doom/post-rock trio Wasteland Haze to release new album »Lonestar« on April 17th via Clostridium Records!
Düsseldorf, Germany based instrumental stoner/doom/post-rock trio Wasteland Haze is gearing up to release their second full-length album »Lonestar« on April 17th, 2026 via Clostridium Records.
Listen to the third and final single »Wstlnd Messiah«, available now on all major streaming platforms!
A good two years after the reissue of their debut album on Clostridium Records, Wasteland Haze are back. With their second vinyl release, the Düsseldorf-based power trio tells a gripping revenge story in the vein of Spaghetti Westerns, set in a post-apocalyptic wasteland, with »Lonestar«. Characteristically instrumental, yet kept fresh by atmospheric samples and synth interludes, the band paints a vivid picture of the events and draws the listener knee-deep into the endless expanse of the wasteland. With their keen focus on songwriting, Wasteland Haze conjure a sophisticated mix of stoner, doom, and post-rock styles, offering with »Lonestar« an impressive, consistently narrative journey from oppressive depths and crackling tension to playful moments of redemption.
Pre-order »Lonestar« here: clostridiumrecords.com
Wasteland Haze on previous single »Handful Of Dust«:
“This is the second single from our upcoming album »Lonestar« which we will release in April 2026 in cooperation with Clostridium Records.
Wasteland Haze is a instrumental 3 piece from Dusseldorf, Germany, founded in 2022. The music is a mix of stoner rock, doom and post-rock. We try to get a gritty and interesting mix of all these genres and focus on a rich variety of styles, trying to make a entertaining and psychedelic experience.
On our first album, which was first released in 2023 and rereleased in 2024, we wrote the songs first and this is the first time for us writing the whole storyline of the record and then writing the music around it, which resulted in a deeper and more cinematic storytelling and songwriting. Supported by various synth parts, voicing and atmospheric samples we created a fluid story in the whole record. The main story is like a revenge western story with our hero getting ambushed, learning about his inner spirits and take revenge on his scavengers.
»Handful Of Dust« is the 4th out of 5 songs on the record and is the mainfight in the story. Our hero stands and fights against his enemies after a long journey which was told in the songs before. The start is hard and sludgy and comes into a crispy post-rockish part, followed by a very hard doom riffing. With about 8 minutes of length, there are many parts and twists in the storytelling of this song.”
Bojan Bidovc // music enthusiast, promoter, misanthrop and sometimes a journalist as well