Featuring members of Monsterworks, Thūn, and Bull Elephant, Anglo-American EnviroMetal Pioneers, Moose Cult, will release sophomore studio album, “Book of the Machines”, on September 6th, 2024, via Eat Lead and Die Music.
Mastered masterfully by Dan Swanö at Unisound, an opening salvo in the form of “Headless Cult” is streaming here.
The need for a new cult was sparked by frontman Jon (aka Jonny Moose) generating a wealth of death/doom riffs collected during and after the pandemic (does it ever really end?). Since albums were already underway from related projects Monsterworks, Thūn and Bull Elephant, he figured “why not start up yet another band that sounds practically the same as all the rest!?”…
Moose Cult is rounded out by the reliable brothers in metallic arms of Hugo (aka Huge Cult; of Monsterworks, Thūn, Bull Elephant) playing fretless bass and James Knoerl on drums (Aviations, Gargoyl, Thūn), with a new collaborator in Tommy Loose (Smokescreen, solo artist) on lead guitar.
The self-titled debut album was thrown together and released to little fanfare in 2023, and is available here. A self-titled mission statement is also available in video here.
“Book of the Machines” deviates a little from the original environmental theme and lifts much inspiration from the novel “Erewhon” (Samuel Butler, 1872) that contains a section called “Book of the Machines”, which is one of the first examples to ponder machine intelligence and self-replication. Musically, the death/doom/trad vibe is still present from the debut album, but is a step forward in execution.
Pre-order “Book of the Machines” here.
Tracklist:
1. Erewhon
2. Death Meditation
3. Curse of Creation
4. Earth(l)ing
5. Gateway to Evolving Thought
6. Headless Cult
7. Book of the Machines
Album credits:
Words by Jonathan Grenville Higgs
Music by Blade
Drum production (recording and editing) by JK Rollin’
Lead guitar recorded by Sam Loose
Bass recorded by Hugo late at night
All other guitars and vocals recorded by Jon when he was supposed to be working
Mixed by Jonathan Grenville Higgs
Mastered by Dan Swanö, Unisound, Germany
Artwork by All4Band.com
Line-up:
Jonny Moose – Vocals/Guitars
Hugo Cult – Bass and Regenerative Ambience
James Knoerl – Drums
Tommy Loose – Lead Guitar
