{"id":12408,"date":"2013-03-25T00:00:13","date_gmt":"2013-03-25T00:00:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/?p=12408"},"modified":"2013-07-20T11:49:17","modified_gmt":"2013-07-20T11:49:17","slug":"album-review-moss-horrible-night","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/album-review-moss-horrible-night\/","title":{"rendered":"MOSS – Horrible Night (2013) | Album \/ EP Reviews @ Metal Forces Magazine"},"content":{"rendered":"

MOSS
Horrible Night<\/strong><\/span>
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\nRise Above (2013)<\/span>
Rating: 5\/10<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

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Another bunch of doom mongers from Lee Dorrian\u2019s Rise Above roster. Horrible Night<\/em> is the first Moss studio record for some five years, following on from their cloggy second opus Sub Templum<\/em> (2008).<\/p>\n

The soggy UK trio of Olly Pearson (vocals), Dominic Finbow (guitar) and Chris Chantler (drums) are very much part of the current slow motion doom brigade and since forming in 2000 have made quite a reputation for themselves. Alongside Electric Wizard and countless others, Moss have become masters at boring me to death with what some fans like to call \u201cstoner metal\u201d.<\/p>\n

Personally, I see, nor hear any highs on this squalid opus which lumbers from its soiled tomb like some bloated maggot that for too long has feasted on flesh-laced silt. \u201cTurn on, tune in and drop out,\u201d a friend told me before I slapped this platter on, but relaxing was the last thing on my mind. Moss\u2019 third opus lives up to its title in the sense that it oozes like the slowest mist, and lumbers as if it were a vehicle controlled by a horde of the undead.<\/p>\n

Moss have shifted style ever so slightly, rejecting the earlier deathlier groans for a clearer vocal, but it\u2019s still as slow as hell; not once do these guys opt for pace. This style of drone music really does baffle me, the doom genre seemingly saturated by two sorts of bands; those intent on ripping off Black Sabbath<\/a>, and those possessed to churn out something akin to primitive plod.<\/p>\n

The opening title track goes absolutely nowhere \u2013 Pearson\u2019s vocals the only respite from the torturous groans of the guitar and concrete slabs which the band like to call drums, which have the subtlety of a brick being dropped from the sky.<\/p>\n

\u2018Bleeding Years\u2019 and \u2018Dark Lady\u2019 skulk by leaving me wondering just what drug you\u2019d have to take to appreciate such arduous structures. Clearly these guys have no need for haste in life and I\u2019m imagining that a trip to the supermarket would surely see the trio adorned in heavyweight chainmail accompanied by ball and chain. Sure, this is heavy stuff, but it borders on the sleepy to be honest.<\/p>\n

\u2018Dreams From The Depths\u2019 provides a welcome respite from the drone, although it\u2019s merely an atmospheric piece of tip-toe acoustic and distant cosmic rumble, which leads us to the sludge of \u2018Coral Of Chaos\u2019, another fuzzed out slow worm of a track that almost writhes to the point of standstill, as Pearson mournfully wails over the dinosaur plod of the drums and bleak guitars.<\/p>\n

The same could also be said for the closing track \u2018I Saw Them That Night\u2019, which labours to the point of snooze, and again I\u2019m left scratching my head, wondering how so many people can find such a dull affair so atmospheric and absorbing.<\/p>\n

Clearly bands like this set out to hypnotise with their brand of doom, but whereas older bands such as Winter and Sevenchurch provided bleak insights on an interesting scale, acts such as Moss really do bore. I guess I just don\u2019t get it, and thank goodness for that.<\/p>\n

Neil Arnold<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

MOSSHorrible Night Rise Above (2013)Rating: 5\/10 Another bunch of doom mongers from Lee Dorrian\u2019s Rise Above roster. Horrible Night is the first Moss studio record for some five years, following on from their cloggy second opus Sub Templum (2008). The soggy UK trio of Olly Pearson (vocals), Dominic Finbow (guitar) and Chris Chantler (drums) are […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,602],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12408","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-album-ep-reviews","category-moss"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12408","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12408"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12408\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13097,"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12408\/revisions\/13097"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12408"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12408"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12408"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}