Chances are you’ll not consider progressive steel while you consider Puerto Rico, however MOTHS are out right here to make a believer out of you. Earlier immediately, the band introduced the upcoming launch of their fourth full-length album, Septem, together with its first single “Gluttony”.
Set to launch on August 14, Septem is described as a “visceral journey via the Seven Lethal Sins, with every observe embodying a side of indulgence, obsession, and self-destruction.” All of the classics are there: Envy, Wrath, Greed, and the aforementioned single.
Talking of the album itself, Moths bassist Weslie Negrón mentioned it was an attention-grabbing effort to place collectively as a band.
“Septem is our most formidable effort so far. From touring to a different nation to report it, to the addition of a brand new vocalist, and creating all of it amidst a world in turmoil—it’s extremely rewarding to lastly see it on the market. This album accommodates a few of my favourite songs we’ve ever written as a band. You possibly can really feel our chemistry in these tracks, how we got here collectively to make them occur, with none boundaries or ‘guidelines’ about how songs must be written. It’s an intriguing, unpredictable, and unconventional album, one which I’m positive will really feel like a recent sound to everybody who hears it.”
Recognized for mixing all types of genres, together with demise and black steel, progressive, psychedelic, doom, and stoner steel, MOTHS have carved out a fairly epic and aggressive tone for themselves.
As for the only, Negrón defined the idea behind “Gluttony”.
“‘Gluttony’ is concerning the seductive nature of overindulgence—the way in which extra can really feel like an limitless feast till you notice you’ve misplaced management. The tune invitations you into this world of limitless pleasure, the place each need is glad, however at a price. The extra you are taking, the extra you want, and earlier than you recognize it, you’re consumed by your personal starvation.
“Jonathan (lead guitar), who wrote the lyrics, needed every listener to really feel like they had been the one being tempted, not in some distant or summary approach, however in their very own day by day lives. Whether or not it’s meals, greed, habit, or any craving that by no means appears to be sufficient, the tune places you in that second of temptation. The lyrics are supposed to really feel immersive, like a whispered invitation that slowly pulls you in. There’s a superb line between pleasure and corruption, and this tune exists proper at that tipping level.”
As for the music video itself, Negrón mentioned the band needed to do as a lot as they might to “visually symbolize” gluttony. So you recognize what which means — tons of meals, folks consuming mentioned meals in an admittedly gross approach… visually interesting stuff, for positive.
“For the music video, we needed to take a direct and unfiltered method to visually symbolize ‘Gluttony.’ To carry this imaginative and prescient to life, we introduced in Drew Storks (Shy, Low), whose work not solely captured the essence of the idea however elevated it to the subsequent degree. Alongside Ian García and Kyle Devorroh, they translated the theme into one thing grotesque and visceral—turning the sin of extra into an unsettling, visible expertise.”
Septem will probably be launched on August 1, however you may preorder your copy immediately.
