Music

Out July 3, 2026

The Seed of Chaos

featuring Ray Alder (Fates Warning)

The debut concept album from Ruin and Reverie, a progressive metal project led by Seattle guitarist Peri Rocha — featuring legendary vocalist Ray Alder (Fates Warning, Redemption) as co-writer and performer.

Across ten interconnected tracks, the album chronicles humanity's final chapter on Earth and its first steps into the unknown — exploring the psychological, political, and cosmic weight of uprooting an entire species in search of a new home among the stars.

Heavy and melodic. Intricate and cinematic. Urgent and introspective. The Seed of Chaos is a journey that feels epic, immersive, and deeply human.

Inspired by Peri's 2022 essay Humankind Was an Accident

1. 1.Part I: Signals
2. 2.Part II: Project 2552
3. 3.Part III: Rise
4. 4.Part IV: Into the NothingSingle
5. 5.Part V: Fractured Entropy
6. 6.Part VI: Without Night, Without DaySingle
7. 7.Part VII: Drifting Away
8. 8.Part VIII: Newfound Existence
9. 9.Part IX: Pull of Fate
10. 10.Part X: Under the Stars