Moss’ Horrible Night Due April 2
Continuing Rise Above‘s partnership with Metal Blade in the US, British doomers Moss will release Horrible Night on April 2. For anyone who heard their last full-length, 2008’s Sub Templum, take a listen to “Horrible Nights” below and you might be surprised at the cleaner vocals and less general blownout-ness, but the current of extreme doom nonetheless runs strong within the track and presumably the album as a whole. It’s been five years, but some stuff never changes.
The PR wire hath decreed:
Southampton, UK doom trio, MOSS, set to release “Horrible Night” on April 2nd
First gathered together in Southampton in the year 2000 – with the formative ambition of being slower and heavier than the slowest, heaviest band you can think of – MOSS is known for unleashing true audial darkness and claustrophobia upon their listeners. The crypt-crushing, drug-crazed occult horror sound of 2005’s Cthonic Rites, 2008’s Sub Templum, 2009’s Tombs Of The Blind Drugged 10″ and the Eternal Return 12″ gradually refined and redefined their suffocating underground doom with impenetrable esoteric themes, and gained them a fearsome reputation as one of the world’s foremost purveyors of what is unequivocally heavy. After 13 years, where does such a band go from there? How can they push the envelope any further than it has already been pushed? Enter 2013’s Horrible Night…
“We wanted to write something that would stand up over time…no disrespect to our earlier recordings – we feel the essence and atmosphere of those is still very much with us, but they were of a time and place that we’re no longer part of…” – MOSS
Moss’s Horrible Night track listing:
1. Horrible Nights
2. The Bleeding Years
3. Dark Lady
4. Dreams from the Depths
5. The Coral of Chaos
6. I Saw Them That Night
About Moss’s Horrible Night:
Recorded during the summer and autumn of 2012 at Hampshire’s Earth Terminal and London’s Earthworks studios, Horrible Night is the sound of MOSS emerging from its cocoon a much more savage, intelligent and all the more terrifying beast. While no longer obsessed with extremity for its own sake – with weirdly infectious riffs, eccentric vocal melodies and no song over 12 minutes – MOSS remain heavier-than-thou, broadening their horror beyond any imposed ‘scene’ expectations. This mastery of the craft is evident from the opening moments of first track “Horrible Nights” – written back in 2010 it sets the course for the album, taking the twisting death-crawl of MOSS mini-epics such as “Tombs of the Blind Drugged” and administering a lethal dose of addictive melody, cooked up by the colossal riffs of Dominic Finbow and the Ozzy-via-seance vocalizations of Olly Pearson. Cuts such as “The Coral of Chaos” and “Dark Lady” expand further upon this potent formula, dragging the Black Sabbath blueprint to its most nightmarish conclusion and ushering MOSS further into their newest dark age.
