Moon Healer, the latest full-length from experimental/progressive death metallers JOB FOR A COWBOY, shattered Billboard charts upon its first week of release, earning the #13 position on the Current Hard Music Albums chart, #7 on the Current Rock Albums chart, #7 on the Current Digital Albums chart, and more! See the record’s global chart positions below.
United States:
#13 Current Hard Music Albums
#7 Current Rock Albums
#7 Current Digital Albums
#7 Digital Albums
#9 Record Label Independent Current Albums
#18 Internet Albums
#22 Current Album Sales
#29 Album Sales
#38 Vinyl Albums
Canada:
#2 Hard Music Albums
#9 Top Current Albums
#11 Top Canadian Album Sales
#19 LP Vinyl Albums
#12 Current Digital Albums
#14 Digital Albums
United Kingdom:
#17 Rock/Metal Albums
#43 Independent Albums
Austria:
#9 iTunes Top 10 Albums daily
Released on February 23rd via Metal Blade Records, JOB FOR A COWBOYâs Moon Healer marks the iconic outfitâs first new full-length in a decade. Like the bandâs critically adored, 2014-released Sun Eater offering, Moon Healer is musically multifaceted, unabashedly brutal, and compellingly conceptual. Featuring a newly refreshed and reinspired lineup of frontman and co-founder Jonny Davy, guitarists Tony Sannicandro and Al Glassman, bassist Nick Schendzielos, and drummer (since 2020) Navene Koperweis, the band seamlessly picks up the mantle where Sun Eater left off.
Compared to past offerings, Moon Healer is as bone-crushing as JOB FOR A COWBOY has ever been. But itâs more consistent and conceptual, composed with the utmost enthusiasm and confidence. âThe evolution of our sound has become a big part of the band,â Davy says. âAs we mature as musicians, our tastes and interests naturally expand. With age comes more experience and ideas that we wouldnât have considered in our earlier years.â
When discussing the lyrical genesis of songs like âGrinding Wheels Of Ophanim,â âInto The Crystalline Crypts,â and âBeyond The Chemical Doorway,â Davyâs writing gets cryptic and elliptical-sounding, part Philip K. Dick, part Timothy Leary. âI envision this as a death metal album born from the mystical confines of an alchemistâs laboratory. The music acts as potent potions, inducing hallucinogenic journeys that unlock the secrets of the universe.â
Moon Healer was produced by Jason Suecof (Death Angel, The Black Dahlia Murder, Deicide) at his Audiohammer Studios, mastered by Ermin Hamidovic at Systematic Productions and includes artwork and layout by Tony Koehl at Sketch the Soul. Itâs also the first JOB FOR A COWBOY album to feature session drummer Navene Koperweis (ex-Animosity). Â
Moon Healer is available on CD, vinyl, and digital formats. Preview and purchase the record at metalblade.com/jobforacowboy.
Watch JOB FOR A COWBOYâs videos for âThe Agony Seeping Stormâ and âThe Forever Rotâ â both directed by Kyle Lamar, Nick “Shinz” Schendzielos, and Jonny Davy â and âBeyond The Chemical Doorway,â Â directed by Chris Klumpp at The Vagrant Key, at THIS LOCATION.Â
âA decade later, they continue their celestial journey into extreme prog with Moon Healer⦠Because of the albumâs ever-shifting kaleidoscopic compositions, there arenât no-brainer singles â and the album is better for it. Down to the final death march of âThe Forever Rot,â itâs a record that largely eschews the familiar and challenges the listener to keep up.â â Decibel Magazine
ââ¦one of the best, most perfectly balanced technical death metal albums Iâve ever heard, an instant classic all but guaranteed to stay in regular rotation for quite some time.â â MetalSucks
ââ¦full-on death metal for nerds, and it’s hard to deny how solid it is.â â Metal Injection
âUntil now, the band’s creative apex has been Sun Eater⦠Moon Healer reaches its predecessor’s high-water marks in every regard.â â Blabbermouth
âIn a world where bands such as Horrendous and Tomb Mold have redefined the bar for what a progressive death record can be, for JOB FOR A COWBOY to come back and stand toe to toe with them is astounding. At times it really does feel that a twisted, eldritch moon with a twisted visage will be plummeting into the earth at any moment. This is not only a worthy successor to Sun Eater, itâs a record that will take its place in the upper echelons of modern death metal.â â Distorted Sound
âMoon Healer is the second part of a dark, surreal concept created by JOB FOR A COWBOY that began with 2014’s Sun Eater. Except this time, it’s more crushing, consistent, and razor-sharp. A transformative journey into the psyche, a sprawling adventure into the weird, the brutal and the unknown.â â This Day
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â…the bandâs most challenging, and most rewarding, work of their entire, almost twenty year, careerâ¦â â No Clean Singing
âA joy for tech-death lovers and those that admire the experimental side to heavy music thatâs not all trudging chugs and pinch harmonics, this feels the start of renewed justice for the band that ultimately got this reviewer into death metal in the first place.â â The Soundboard Reviews
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