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Moss Announce New EP Release Carmilla (Marcilla)/Spectral Visions

Posted in Whathaveyou on August 22nd, 2014 by JJ Koczan

UK purveyors of aged and crawling miseries Moss have announced a new EP due out on Halloween. Carmilla (Marcilla)/Spectral Visions will be the first Moss outing since last year’s Horrible Night full-length (review here), and it is set to emerge via Stone Tapes, an imprint helmed by the band born out of their own Buried and Forgotten Productions, through which they’ve periodically issued offerings every couple years or so. The last one was the Never Say Live tape in 2010.

Carmilla (Marcilla)/Spectral Visions earns further distinction by being the first vinyl Moss has self-released on their own label, whatever that label might be called. I don’t know if this portends future LPs coming from the band’s own hands, but it’s a noteworthy jump one way or another.

They sent the following down the PR wire:

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NEW MOSS 10″ EP, preview streaming now

UK doom metal veterans MOSS return with a new EP released on the 31st of October on 10″ vinyl and digital, via their own label Stone Tapes.

Consisting of two tombstone classics, Carmilla (Marcilla)/Spectral Visions is nearly 20 minutes of pure, horror-obsessed doom metal, dragging the endless atmospheres found on 2013’s ‘Horrible Night’ even deeper and further down into unfathomable depths.

A 100% DIY release in the truest sense and coming on gimmick-free black 10″ vinyl limited to 500 copies, Carmilla (Marcilla)/Spectral Visions is available to pre-order now from MOSS’s official bandcamp page http://www.mossdoom.bandcamp.com

Since they emerged from Hampshire’s catacombs in late 2000, MOSS have tirelessly dragged intimidating amplification and metaphysical malignance down a murky and overgrown path to oblivion. Whilst their sound has morphed slowly from lengthy and devastating exorcisms of psychic horror to a comparatively traditional form of sermonising, the last decade and a half has only seen them draw closer to a motherlode of ceremonial ambience and otherworldly dread. Fuelled by classic doom metal and British horror yet in thrall to no-one but their own wayward co-ordinates, these three seers have created a formidable collection of audial documents that bear testimony to an unflinching fascination with the ghastly and esoteric.

However, Hallowe’en 2014 sees the triuvirate encroaching on territory anew. Having released an album on Aurora Borealis and two more on Rise Above alongside untold EPs, live recordings and split releases, they now embark on their first release for their own imprint, Stone Tapes, having chosen not to renew their association with Rise Above after the release of 2013’s ‘MOSS’s Horrible Night’. A 10” double A-side EP limited to 500 copies, it sees the band in splendid isolation, expanding on the gruesome Grand Guignol atmosphere of their last opus in suitably monomaniacal fashion, and deploying grimly earthen guitar tone, death-knell battery and stentorian oratory to conjure otherworldly malice from beyond with deadly fortitude.

These two tracks draw on a sphere of influence that includes classic horror fiction, arrive swathed in unearthly feedback, and volley forth at a funereal pace. Yet they manage to effortlessly waylay both the preponderance of humdrum cliches and the needless barrage of volume and excess that frequently hold sway in contemporary doom-laden circles. Always a band out of time, the trio operate impervious to fashion or most any outside influence bar certain personal pecadiloes and the demons lurking in their own subconscious. These twenty minutes of tumult, recorded at the Cro’s Nest in Purley, by Sam Thredder, only underline the uncompromising and bloody-minded attitude that have rendered MOSS a primal force that transcends trappings of genre and scene.

The dawning of a new chapter in an uncanny saga, ‘Carmilla (Marcilla)’ and ‘Spectral Visions’ function as both an imtimdating document in their own right and as portents of all manner of unimaginable entities lurking in the furthermost reaches of everyday perception. Yet as MOSS’s power grows stronger, one can only wonder aghast at the consequences for all…

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Moss, “Carmilla (Marcilla)” (2014)

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