Funeral Moth

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Funeral Moth
General information
origin Kanagawa Prefecture , Japan
Genre (s) Funeral doom
founding 2005
Website weirdtruth.jp/funeralmoth
Current occupation
Drums
 Yuichiro Azegami
guitar
 Tomohiro Kanja
Vocals, guitar
 Makoto Fujishima
Electric bass
 Ryo Amamiya
former members
Electric bass, vocals
 Nobuyuki Sentou
Drums
 Jumpei Ishimaru
guitar
 Mayo Odium

Funeral Moth is a funeral doom band founded in 2005 .

history

Funeral Moth was founded in the fall of 2005 by bassist and singer Nobuyuki Sentou, singer and guitarist Makoto Fujishima and drummer Junpei Ishimaru in Kanagawa Prefecture . From this original line-up, only Makoto Fujishima remained. In May 2006 the group appeared live for the first time and in November of the same year the demo tape The Moth Flying to the Funeral Sky was recorded by the group, which Fujishima released on his label Weird Truth Productions . In 2007 Ishimaru left the group and Yuichiro Azegami soon took over the role of drummer. With the new line-up, the group produced the self-titled EP , which was released in June 2008, and performed in Tokyo for the first time in July together with the German funeral doom band Worship . In July 2010, Funeral Moth toured with the Australian band Mournful Congregation . During this tour, Takafumi Matsubara from Gridlink and Mortalized played as a guest musician. Based on experience, the band was looking for a permanent additional guitarist after the tour, until they signed Mayo Odium in January 2012, who had worked with Stabat Mater , among others . Odium left Funeral Moth in 2013 and was replaced by Tomohiro Kanja. With dense fog , the first regular album was released in this constellation in 2014, the release of which was accompanied by another tour with worship. The album was positively received internationally. In February 2015 the band performed in Taipei and thus for the first time outside of Japan. Meanwhile, various re-releases from the already discography appeared. In July of the same year, the band played at Fearest Death Cult, an extreme music festival in Osaka. After this gig, Sentou left Funeral Moth. Sentou was replaced by Ryo Amamiya. With the new line-up, the group recorded their second studio album, transience , which was released in March 2016 via Weird Truth Productions. The album was well received internationally and discussed more often than the debut.

style

The music of Funeral Moth is assigned to Funeral Doom. For the Doom-Metal.com website, the game form presented by the group is described as "ultra slow" and as a "raw and disturbing" variant. Comparisons are made to Hierophant , Of Darkness and Senthil . As a further benchmark, reviewers try various genre representatives of Funeral Doom and Death Doom , including Mournful Congregation, Asunder , Tyranny , Loss , Skepticism and repeatedly Thergothon and Corrupted .

The music is described as particularly experimental and sometimes jazzy. The music presented on transience is described by Dutch Pearce in his review written for Decibel Magazine as a revolutionary renewal of the genre. Singing is used sparingly and is highlighted as "excellent". Guttural growls are paired with tortured elgie chants and whispers while the instruments "envelop the listener like a cocoon". In the review written for the webzine Powermetal.de, transience is described as an "extraordinary album", "which succeeds in conjuring up typical Doom moods without resorting to set pieces typical of the genre". "Long lead guitar melodies play a major role in the sound of the Japanese, sometimes almost jazzy drums and a deep booming bass complete the sound" [.]

Discography

  • 2006: The Moth Flying to the Funeral Sky (Demo, Weird Truth Productions)
  • 2008: Funeral Moth (EP, Weird Truth Productions / Psychedelic Lotus Order)
  • 2014: dense fog (album, Weird Truth Productions / Throne Records)
  • 2016: transience (Album, Weird Truth Productions / Throne Records / Dogma Artistic Guerrilla)
  • 2019: polar (download single, Weird Truth Productions)

Web links

Individual evidence

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