MOSS Set To Release Four-Song, 40-Minute Album

June 4, 2009

"Occult horror doom" metal band MOSS has completed work on its new album, "Tombs of the Blind Drugged", for a July 7 release via Rise Above Records.

Hailed as "the bleakest, darkest doom metal ever recorded," MOSS cooks up eerie anti-music that transmits the occult like none other. The band's monstrous groan, which has been described as sounding akin to "an enormous door slamming in the depths of Hell," is an exercise in esoteric, subterranean molten doom metal.

Recorded at Wales' Foel Studios (MY BLOODY VALENTINE, BLUE CHEER, ELECTRIC WIZARD) in the winter of 2008, "Tombs of the Blind Drugged" sees MOSS' unique brand of extremity and terror reach new depths as monolithic riffs and grim vocals consort with Dr. Phibes-like organ playing, extreme bass frequencies and mysterious "chant atmospheres." The quasi-conceptual recording sees horror history and the occult collide head on "in a nod to the films of Spanish film director Amando De Ossorio, as a sect of Templar knights adopt the esoteric drug rites and rituals of the Hashshashin." The album is a devastating account of "secret teachings, unspoken sciences and mind-controlling riffs" alchemically distilled to a total purification of "occult horror doom."

"Tombs of the Blind Drugged" track listing:

01. Skeletal Keys (12:28)
02. Tombs of the Blind Drugged (10:51)
03. Serpent (11:17)
04. Maimed and Slaughtered (5:53)

Since forming in Southampton in 2001, MOSS has carved its own morbid niche within the underground with a number of extremely hard to find demo and split recordings (with bands such as GRIEF, NADJA and UNEARTHLY TRANCE) and two monstrous and critically acclaimed albums; 2005's "Chthonic Rites" and "Sub Templum" (2008). In October of 2008, the band performed a special live set at the Rise Above Records' 20th anniversary celebration to rousing response.

MOSS features Olly Pearson (vocals),Dominic Finbow (guitars) and Chris Chantler (hammer horror).

For more information, visit www.myspace.com/cthonicrites.

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