It’s possible you’ll not consider progressive metallic once you consider Puerto Rico, however MOTHS are out right here to make a believer out of you. Earlier in the present day, 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 by the Seven Lethal Sins, with every monitor embodying a aspect 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 up to now. From touring to a different nation to file 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 certain will really feel like a contemporary sound to everybody who hears it.”
Recognized for mixing every kind of genres, together with dying and black metallic, progressive, psychedelic, doom, and stoner metallic, MOTHS have carved out a fairly epic and aggressive tone for themselves.
As for the one, Negrón defined the idea behind “Gluttony”.
“‘Gluttony’ is in regards to the seductive nature of overindulgence—the way in which extra can really feel like an infinite feast till you understand you’ve misplaced management. The tune invitations you into this world of limitless pleasure, the place each need is happy, however at a price. The extra you’re taking, the extra you want, and earlier than you realize 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 every 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 wonderful 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 characterize” gluttony. So you realize what which means — tons of meals, individuals consuming mentioned meals in an admittedly gross approach… visually interesting stuff, for certain.
“For the music video, we needed to take a direct and unfiltered method to visually characterize ‘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 following stage. 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 shall be launched on August 1, however you possibly can preorder your copy in the present day.
