Travo to Release Wasteland Oct. 2; “Burial” Video Posted
Posted in Whathaveyou on June 17th, 2026 by JJ Koczan
Mind you, it’s not like Travo‘s 2023 sophomore long-player, Astromorph God (review here), was lacking in cosmic intensity, but even from this, their new video for “Burial” seems to have upped the shove. A couple times in the PR wire info below, they speak of it as metal-adjacent, and I guess that accounts for the rush in new track “Burial,” but they’re not chestbeating in a way I think of metal as being, and they make it easy to be grateful for that. Their third album, Wasteland, will be out Oct. 2 on Fuzz Club Records, with Spinda Records also behind the release in some way.
Before the album’s release, they’ll feature at this year’s Bear Stone Festival in Croatia next month and are likely to have a tour announcement coming either around that or near the release in the Fall. They hit the road pretty hard in Europe while supporting Astromorph God. I see no reason to expect different for Wasteland.
To the PR wire:
TRAVO announce new album ‘WASTELAND’ and release first single ‘BURIAL’
Preorder: https://travo.lnk.to/wasteland
Spinda Records Preorder: https://spindarecords.com/products/travo-wasteland
Braga, Portugal-based psych-rock four-piece TRAVO announce new album ‘WASTELAND’, their heaviest and most metallic album to date and first on their new label home Fuzz Club. Alongside news of the album, out October 2nd 2026, the band are also unleashing the first single and video ‘BURIAL’, out everywhere today.
Recorded in early 2026 at ARDA Recorders in Porto and produced, mixed, and mastered by Jaime Arellano (Ghost, Ulver, Behemoth), TRAVO’s newly-announced third studio album marks a shift away from the fantasy themes of the band’s previous record, 2023’s ‘Astromorph God’, into something much more personal, palpable, and grounded in the anxieties of the present time.
New single ‘BURIAL’ opens the album and sets the tone for the rest of the journey. With dark, anxiety-inducing riffs, hypnotic vocals, insane guitar solos, and a fast-paced rhythm section, the song delivers 4 minutes and 41 seconds of pure suffocation, culminating in a catchy guitar lead that will stay stuck in your head for days.
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‘WASTELAND’ arrives off the back of three years spent touring heavily around Europe, with their notoriously face-melting live show captured on a blazing KEXP session filmed whilst on the road. Looking to keep riding that high, the band took advantage of a rare break in their touring schedule and headed straight for the studio with a newfound intensity and urgency: “The recording session was booked without any composed material, and the whole album ended up being written in a little over one intense month of rehearsals. The pressure of wanting to take a step forward with the next album started to creep in and caused some internal friction. This feeling of urgency naturally carried over into the songs and gave them a character they likely wouldn’t have had in a more relaxed writing environment.”
Across its seven tracks, ‘WASTELAND’ explores themes of “techno-anxiety, disconnection, dystopia, love, death, rebirth, and the search for collective spirituality”, note the band. Each song is loosely inspired by a different section of T.S. Eliot’s poem ‘The Waste Land’, “whose themes and motifs feel especially relevant today.” Musically, the album incorporates dark psychedelic and industrial influences, fusing them with the band’s more familiar elements: loud and corrosive fast-paced songs intertwined with crushing, slow-burning epics. The vocals range from catchy falsetto melodies to full-on growls and screams. The guitars interplay with each other, producing either beautiful harmonies or uncanny dissonances. The rhythm section is tight, potent, and hypnotic. It is also the band’s most synth-heavy album to date.
Altogether, TRAVO’s ‘WASTELAND’ is an aggressive, genre-bending rock record knocking on metal’s door while still managing to breathe through the chaos. It’s an intense headbanging journey between fast, bad-trip-inducing jams and contemplative ambient passages.
Produced, recorded, mixed and mastered by Jaime Gomez Arellano
Recorded at ARDA Recorders
Mixed and Mastered at Orgone Studios
Travo:
Gonçalo Ferreira – Guitar, Vocals
Gonçalo Carneiro – Guitar, Synths
Nuno Gonçalves – Drums
David Ferreira – Bass
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