New album Hysteria released next week / UK tour with WITCHSORROW
Hysteria by The Moth is released on 10th November 2017 on This Charming Man Records
View the new video for ‘Blackness’ here:
“Like moths to flames this trance-like doom will draw you close.”
METAL HAMMER
“This slays! It sounds like Celtic Frost meets early-High on Fire!”
JOHN PAUL DAVIS, CONAN
“More progressive and more daring than previous albums […] take my word for it and believe that Hysteria is one to go completely crazy over.”
OUTLAWS OF THE SUN
Signed to This Charming Man Records just one year after their formation in 2012, Hamburg-based doom/sludge trio The Moth are one of Germany’s leading underground lights.
Upon the release of their acclaimed debut album They Fall in 2013 the band was praised for harbouring a sound that cooked slow burning doom, thrash, rock and death metal via a metallurgy of riffs and bold ideas.
Geared toward full-metal apocalypse, that same sound was soon resurrected in 2015 on The Moth’s follow-up album And Then Rise, which drew justifiable comparisons to the likes of High on Fire, Mastodon, Crowbar and Kylesa. Picking up on the twin vocal play of bassist Cécile Ash and guitarist Freden Mohrdiek’s well-tempered Jekyll & Hyde-like aesthetic, the album was raw, ready and alive with ambition… and best of all, void of uncalled-for frills.
Off the back of tours and shows with Torche, Red Fang, Conan, Space Chaser and OHHMS, not to mention countless stages rocked at DesertFest, Svart Festival, Doom Over Vienna and Stoned from The Underground, The Moth return this November with their most anticipated album yet. Relocating to the same, small rehearsal room used to record their debut – deep in the belly of Hamburg’s infamous red-light district in St. Pauli – the band set about pre-recording their album Hysteria with close friend and producer José Lorenzo in September 2016. After laying down all ten tracks in one day and returning later in the year to rerecord and add vocals, they soon discovered that Lorenzo’s initial recordings best captured the band’s brutal and bewitching live sound.
With the addition of new member Christian ‘Curry’ Korr, brought in to share rhythm duties alongside long-sitting drummer Tiffy and the partnership of Cécile and Freden as full-on and fired-up as ever, Hysteria is the audacious product of a band at their deadliest.
“The title track represents the style of the whole album,” explains Cécile Ash. “That we only recorded each track maybe two or three times live and took the best version, you can really hear our character in it. We didn’t cut anything out. Imperfection is what we like.”
Released on 10th November 2017, Hysteria by The Moth will be available on This Charming Man Records.
The Moth:
Cécile Ash – Bass/Vocals
Freden Mohrdiek – Guitar/Vocals
Christian ‘Curry’ Korr – Drums
Tiffy – Drums
Tour Dates with Witchsorrow:
2 Nov – The Old England, Bristol
23 Nov – Bannerman’s Bar, Edinburgh
24 Nov – The Phoenix, Coventry
25 Nov – Riffmass 2017, Brighton
26 Nov – The Devonshire Arms, London
