Asheville, North Carolina outfit Mo’ynoq have spent the final decade dispelling the parable that black metallic solely comes out of the frozen north, infusing their model of USBM with an environment that remembers their house within the southern United States. Three years after their final launch, 2022’s A Place for Ash, Mo’ynoq are again in motion and so they introduced pals, fellow Asheville black metallic trio Urocyon.
Each side of the break up have a distinctly American sound, drawing their influences from USBM stalwarts Krallice, Ash Borer and Nachtmystium. Listeners searching for tight, no-bullshit black metallic will discover lots to understand on Mo’ynoq and Urocyon’s new break up, which you’ll be able to stream under forward of its April 18 unbiased launch. Decibel additionally spoke with each bands to get deeper perception into the writing and recording course of.
It’s been roughly three years since both band launched new music. Have each of you been engaged on these songs since your final launch?
Mo’ynoq: Sorta. This band sometimes writes as a collective so items of those songs had been floating round our rehearsal house for a number of months, but it surely wasn’t till we had this break up as a purpose that they had been absolutely developed.
Urocyon: We’ve got. Our songwriting course of is a bit sluggish as a result of duties in our private lives, and we can be perfectionists. The Sentient Curse was initially written for our previous band, Shadow of the Destroyer, however we by no means recorded it and solely performed it stay as soon as earlier than we disbanded. Urocyon determined to exhume and rework it for our three-piece setup, which took a while to grasp.
How did this break up come to be? Are Urocyon and Mo’ynoq simply two bands that exist in shut proximity to 1 one other?
Mo’ynoq: We’ve been discussing doing a break up with these dudes since earlier than Urocyon’s former undertaking, Shadow of the Destroyer, disbanded. When Dave Kaminsky joined on guitar in November of 2023, this grew to become a manner for us to study to put in writing collectively and collaborate with our Appalachian boys concurrently.
Urocyon: We grew to become good pals with Mo’ynoq round 6 or 7 years in the past by means of our previous band, in order that they had been excited and supportive when Urocyon got here to be. We stay throughout the state from one another, however play exhibits collectively as usually as we will and have talked about doing a break up collectively for years; it simply took some time to return to fruition.
Urocyon, that is solely your second launch. Do you continue to really feel such as you’re discovering your musical identification?
Urocyon: To be sincere, probably not. The three of us have been enjoying music collectively since 2011, so we had a reasonably stable thought of what we wished to do with Urocyon.
What are the songs on this break up about? Are the 2 sides thematically associated?
Mo’ynoq: Our songs on this break up increase on plenty of the themes we usually deal with: particular person struggling and abnegation as a method of grappling with the issues which might be past our management. Our mutual motivation for this break up was to showcase black metallic from North Carolina whereas working with our pals.
Urocyon: No, there’s no theme between every band’s songs. That will’ve been cool, however the principle causes behind doing this break up had been to do a launch with pals’ bands that we each love and to focus on NCBM on the whole. Our songs are each basically about man’s wanton destruction of the earth and its eventual inevitable ecological collapse.”
