There’s a surfeit of fiery diabolism to be had here, as on the opening ‘Tumbleweave’, which blends a Dave Wyndorf-esque wry absurdity on the lyrical front with a woozy third-eye landslide of a riff-monster, or ‘The Undead King Of Rock N’ Roll’, a keen-eyed deconstruction of the more tiresome traits of the rock mythos to a gloriously debauched blast of Acid King style dirge-dementia. Yet there’s both subtlety and strength in depth too, as the infectious melodic suss of ‘Set Yourself Alight’s and ‘Stinkhorn’, whose dustblown expanses bring to mind the primal atmosphere of ‘To Bring You My Love’ era PJ Harvey, will testify.
A turbulent brew with just as much 60s garage rock bite, head-spinning psychedelia and ‘1991-The-Year-That-Punk-Rock’ grit to offer as Vinum Sabbathi riffage. ‘Condemned To Hope’ is where Black Moth truly render themselves a glimmering presence in the firmament of 21st century rock. A band just as comfortable sharing the Temples festival bill with the likes of Electric Wizard and Neurosis as they are alongside Nick Cave, Iggy Pop and Deborah Harry on the forthcoming Jeffrey Lee Pierce Sessions album ‘Axels And Sockets’, and having already laid waste to Europe in support of Uncle Acid And The Deadbeats, this uniquely potent and poleaxing proposition are set to spread their wings to oblivion and beyond.
‘Room 13’ the new Black Moth single poses a grim, threatening uneasiness as it heaves, unrelenting through its themes of paranoia, hallucination and crushing night terrors. This can only indicate that with their second album looming, this is a band that is reaching new levels of trouble.
Perfectly illustrating the inherent dread, we also present the new official Black Moth video from Orillo Productions. A haunting offering with an unmistakably Yorkshire brand of Brit Horror grit, the video was shot in recently unlocked servants quarters of a 200 year old haunted mansion as the band penetrate a young girl’s darkest nightmares.
Room 13 is available to buy as a download on June 30th but that’s not all, you can digitally pre order the whole new album now for a limited time at the special price of £4.99 here – http://georiot.co/2Sxk
The band will be doing a launch gig at London’s Barfly on the 3rd of July. A John Kennedy XFM Xposure night that’ll be recorded for broadcast on John’s show, it promises to be a heavy session indeed with support from Holy Mountain and NHS label mates Limb.
