UK alt metal outfit One Last Day have released their debut EP ‘Eyes Like Glass // Thoughts Like Fuel’ alongside a music video for focus single “Echoes,” directed by Shaun Hodson of Loki Films. The band describes “Echoes” as “a song about how we perceive what’s going on around us and how we choose to act in response. The way you act echoes through others’ experiences of you, you create ripples with actions which ultimately define you from the observer’s point of view – it’s worth being mindful of.” The EP serves as bedrock for the band’s creative journey ahead, exploring themes of resilience, self-reflection, and dystopian realization.
“It covers the breadth of keeping the fire alive, self-reflection on your internalisations, sonderous realisations that people’s experiences of you echo on regardless of your own journey, appreciation and recognition of the people who keep you safe and a good bit of dystopian realisation to cap it off,” the band explains. The release follows their 2025 return with “Still Breathing,” which earned airplay on Kerrang Radio’s Fresh Blood show with Alex Baker and drew praise from GBHBL, who called the track “Oozing passion, showcasing explosivity, and delivering powerful melodies that are undeniably infectious.”
The EP closes with “Watch The World Decay,” featuring guest vocals from William Alex Young of Defences. The track confronts rampant division and racism in the current political landscape. “The world is a scary place,” the band states. “There are populist politicians taking the world by storm, riling up the masses with divisive and emotive issues. There is nothing easier than to manipulate you by implying your problems are due to a group of people you struggle to relate to. After the haze, division and anger we might look back and realise what we have let happen. This isn’t a new story, it’s been told before. This is our creative re-telling of a text that never seems to stop being relevant.”