Moodring have spent the last few years steadily perfecting their sound, delivering devastating experiment upon devastating experiment. And it feels like it has all been leading to this, the start of a new era with a new track that sounds like a flag planted firmly in the ground.
That song is “BLACK_WAVE,” a disorientating, indulgent, delirious slab of post-everything genius. From the tension-laced builds to the silken chorus, all held together by the sort of riffs that could split rock, it’s an incredible achievement from a band focused on becoming your new obsession. Beautiful, brutal and everything in between, they are making such a task light work.
Vocalist Hunter Young had this to say about it: “This song stems from a dark place — a narrator trapped inside a nihilistic headspace, who is driven to take over, control, and torture another. The ‘black wave’ is the dark voice inside us all, the hidden thoughts that can’t be spoken of; demons of the taboo that threaten to unleash and destroy the thin fabrics of morality and perceived ‘normalcy.‘”
Oh, and if that isn’t enough, the band premiered the song via Crunchyroll, the leading light in anime news. How cool is that?
It’s the first music from Moodring since the release of their debut full-length album Stargazer which was released last year via UNFD.
Here is “Disintegrate” from that very release:
