Music Video: WAYFARER - Hollow Hearts On The Trail To Eden (OFFICIAL VIDEO)

my review: Wayfarer - new album of Americana Western gothic folk atmospheric country music

Wayfarer - Riders of the Setting Sun - Metal Blade Records - 20 November 2026

I know Wayfarer (Denver, Colorado, USA; 2011–present) as a metal band that moved from black metal toward a type of Western- or country-influenced black metal across five albums before 2026. Well, I came to find out that they are no longer metal at all, and are now playing Americana Western gothic folk atmospheric country music. Is there any metal for me? Does it rock in any way for me? No, there is not, and no, it does not. If you are up for something new, or up for some gothic country music, then put on your cowboy boots and your cowboy hat, get on your horse, and get ready for some depressive goth-country doom and gloom. I know that tons of country music is about having fun and enjoying life, but I find that Wayfarer's country music is not that at all. On the album, there is essentially no rock music at all, much less metal, though I got an occasional glimpse of it—like on the song "Hollow Hearts on the Trail to Eden," which features an electric guitar solo. However, this is an exception. Are you ready? Am I ready? Let's go, then. Let's goth-country it up and get ready for the band working really hard to make you feel depressed, lonely, and abandoned—like an old barn out there on an abandoned farm, gray, decrepit, weathered, splintered, and covered in moss. C'mon, cheer up, friend, the fun is only beginning. I think Wayfarer set out into the sunset and left me and all the metal behind in the dust. It's moody, it's slow, and this music makes me greet a horse for no reason. If you are willing to let Wayfarer take you on a different kind of wagon trip, get on, partner. If you're here for heavy metal and refuse new adventures, turn your horse around immediately and leave this metal-free wasteland as if it were the Arizona desert.

WAYFARER - Hollow Hearts On The Trail To Eden (OFFICIAL VIDEO)