Walls dropped their new EP “Endeavour of Destruction” today, along with the video for “Gears of the Cold Machine.” The release follows the single “We ALL Suffer” from earlier this month, and together they form the second part of the band’s ongoing concept that started with last year’s “Endeavour of Adaptation.” Survival and reshaping made way for destruction, and that’s the space the band digs into now.
The record is direct in its message: systems are designed to fail us, we know it, we feel trapped, and yet we keep the whole thing running. The band’s explanation is sharp — it’s about the impossibility or unwillingness to escape, the hypocrisy of complaining without acting, and the fact that every one of us is a gear in the cold machine.
The new single sits at the center of that idea. “Still catching fire in an ocean of gasoline” is one of the key lines, a nod back to earlier Walls material but also a blunt image of self-destruction. The song’s structure is built around impact and repetition: “We bleed for nothing, yet beg for more / They feed us shit, we swallow it whole” and “Honestly I’m done / Trying to pretend that this is not the end” leave no space for interpretation. It’s meant to feel like a cycle you can’t step out of.
The video, created with Seppe Germaux, translates that cycle into a visual confrontation. A protagonist flees, chased by masked figures. He stumbles into a room, only to find in the mirror that he has been masked the entire time. The point is unmissable — there is no outrunning the system when you’re part of it already. The band say the intent was to capture the hypocrisy of complaining while remaining complicit.
“Endeavour of Destruction” pushes this theme across the whole EP. Walls describe it as both homecoming and evolution, reconnecting with their nu metal and hardcore roots while pushing the sound heavier with their renewed lineup. The return of their original singer, the bassist reclaiming low-end weight, and a new drummer pushing intensity give the record its edge. In their words: “Musically, Endeavour of Destruction is both a homecoming and an evolution. The result is a collision of past and present: chaotic, cathartic, and unmistakably Walls.”
The lyrics stay relentless. “No freedom in a free choice,” “We’re already dead inside / ready to burn,” “Nothing to prove yet I live inside a test” — these lines read like fragments of resignation, snapshots of being drained out piece by piece. There’s no promise of breakthrough; the EP insists on naming the trap and leaving you in it.
For Walls, this record is not an aesthetic exercise but conviction: music as a mirror, as a sledgehammer. “Endeavour of Destruction” is designed to strip away the excuses and expose the machine we help keep alive.
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Next stops for the band are live shows: 10/10 Zentrum, Bayreuth (DE); 17/10 Louvain-la-Neuve (BE); 31/10 Grave Rock, Hulst (NL); and 21/11 Herrie Metal Fest, Alkmaar (NL).
