Mos Generator to Reissue The Lantern Feb. 26; Preorders Available
Don’t get me wrong, I’d probably be posting about a Mos Generator reissue/reworking/whatever-you-want-to-call-it anyway, because, well, it’s been like three days and I’ll admit I was starting to jones for some Tony Reed news, but look at that cover art. Man, that rules. I’m pretty sure the stuff on The Lantern — though it’s been remixed and so on — showed up on Destroy! The Mos Generator as well as on Tales From the Vault, but whatever. For the cover alone I’m happy to give this one some space. I don’t even want it on a poster. I want it on a tapestry. I want it on a throw blanket. A window treatment. Something.
You’ll note that The Lantern continues the collab between Mos Generator and Argonauta Records, which released the band’s split with Di’Aul already this year. One doubts this will be the last either. And if you missed it, Reed‘s solo record came out last week and is one of my favorite records of 2020. So there.
From the PR wire:
MOS GENERATOR, To Reissue Finest Song Collection “The Lantern”!
Release date February 26.
Available as: 300 copies LTD GOLDEN BLUE VINYL + INSERT!
Tony Reed’s Mos Generator, who formed in 2000 in Port Orchard, Washington from the ashes of a ten year off & on collaboration between its three members, all of which are long time veterans of road & studio, inspired the heavy music scene since decades.
The need to strip down to the basics of hard rock was apparent from their start and continues to be the foundation for all the bands recent material. Mos Generator have released 9 full length studio albums, a retrospective album, 2 live albums and a plethora of split 7″ and 12” singles on such labels as Listenable, Roadburn, Small Stone, Ripple, Nasoni, Lay Bare, Hevi Sike, H42, Devil‘s Child, Kozmik Artifactz, Heavy Psych Sounds or just recently, their critically acclaimed split LP with Sludge maniacs Di’Aul via Argonauta Records.
Touring has been just as important to the profile of the band as making records has. Over the years Mos Generator has shared the stage with many great heavy rock bands across Europe and North America including extensive tours with Saint Vitus, FU Manchu, Elder, Spirit Caravan and Atomic Bitchwax. They have also played prestigious festivals throughout Europe including 2 appearances at Hellfest in France, opening up a whole new fan base to the Mos Generator sound.
After 20 years of making music the band shows no sign of slowing down. Now, the band has announced to reissue a finest collection of songs, taken from Mos Generator’s pathbreaking 2007-album, “Tales from the Vault”! Re-mastered and with its blistering new mix, “The Lantern” sounds like a different album and as you have never heard the band before, this exciting collection of tracks will be a definite must-have in every Mos Generator, heavy rock and doom metal record collection. “The Lantern” will be coming out as a limited Vinyl edition only, on February 26th 2021 via Argonauta Records, the pre-sale has just started at THIS LOCATION!
“The Lantern is a collection of songs that were originally released in 2007 on a 10” picture disc as Tales from The Vault.” Says band mastermind, Tony Reed. “The original album has been long out of print so it’s great to be re-releasing these tracks with new mixes and new artwork. The recording sessions, from June 2006, took place in our rehearsal room and capture us live playing brand new songs. A few of them were arranged only a day or two before the sessions started. I think this element makes the songs sound reckless and raw. There is an atmosphere on this record that doesn’t exist on any other Mos Generator release.”
Album Tracklist:
01. Dyin’ Blues
02. In The Upper Room
03. The Lantern
04. Nightwolf
05. O’Cataa
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