Moon Coven Announce Sun King LP out Aug. 25
Looking for some good tonal dirt? Hit up the video at the bottom of this post for Moon Coven‘s new single “Wicked Words in Gold They Wrote.” It’s the opening track of the Malmö, Sweden, four-piece’s new album, Sun King, which is out Aug. 25 through Ripple Music. The clip was recorded live in the studio, so it might be a bit rawer than the final version on the LP, but considering Moon Coven‘s work to-date, probably not that much rawer. The band were last heard from in 2021 with their third full-length, Slumber Wood (review here), and some of the intention they note below to shake up their style can be heard in the trippy echo of screaming slide guitar over the groove they ride to the song’s finish. I guess if you’ve got ‘moon’ in the name of your band, putting ‘sun’ in the album title is a decent way to let people know you’re trying something different.
This will be the band’s second offering as a four-piece, and they’ve always had an out-there edge to their sound, so if that’s where they’re headed this time around I’ll look forward to hearing it. The below came down the PR wire:
Swedish heavy psychedelic rockers MOON COVEN return with new album “Sun King” on Ripple Music this summer; debut single and preorder available!
Malmö-based heavy psychedelic merchants MOON COVEN return this August 25th with their fourth studio album “Sun King” on Ripple Music, and unveil a powerful live video for their new single “Wicked Words in Gold They Wrote”!
Two years after unleashing their juggernaut third record and Ripple Music debut “Slumber Wood” upon the world, MOON COVEN are now ready to shift the Earth’s axis and mesmerize the masses once again with a fresh set of tunes in the sheerest tradition of modern heavy psychedelia: “Sun King”. Entirely recorded and produced by the band, their fourth studio album is a generous and compelling 9-track propelled by a renewed synergy: fueled up with fuzz for days, the band keeps their myth-laden doom ethos strong while enhancing their garage-psych facet for a spirited saga full of riffic plot twists.
About new album “Sun King”, the band comments: “In some ways, Sun King was a fresh start for us. After one member had to leave the band and after three stoner/doom albums, we wanted to try other styles as well. To keep producing interesting music, we had to expand our horizons a bit. In our opinion, Sun King is our most diverse album. It’s fun and playful sometimes and dark and powerful other times. The only aims we had was to keep the songwriting fun and creative while not feeling too limited. Also we recorded everything ourselves, which meant the recording process became more creative. We had unlimited time to explore without thinking about loss of money.”
“Sun King” was recorded and mixed by David Regn Leban, and mastered by Joona Hassinen. The artwork was created by David Regn Leban. It will be released on August 25th in various vinyl editions, as well as on CD and digital through Ripple Music.
MOON COVEN “Sun King”
Out August 25th on Ripple Music
US preorder – https://ripplemusic.bigcartel.com/product/moon-coven-sun-king-vinyl-and-cd-editions
European preorder – https://en.ripple.spkr.media/
Bandcamp – https://ripplemusic.bandcamp.com/
TRACKLIST:
1. Wicked Words In Gold They Wrote
2. Seeing Stone
3. Sun King
4. Behold The Serpent
5. Below The Black Grow
6. The Yawning Wild
7. Death Shine Light On Life
8. The Lost Color
9. Guilded Apple
MOON COVEN is
David Regn Leban – guitar and vocals
Axel Ganhammar – guitar
Fredrik Dahlqvist – drums
Pontus Ekberg – bass
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