After a few years without releasing music, MOTHS, one of the scene’s most promising metal bands, comes back with Space Force, an album that finds the band providing a sci-fi tale scored by genres such as stoner rock, psychedelic rock, doom metal, and others. Space Force starts with “Space Cowboy’s Ballad”, a smoothing and relaxing ballad that takes listeners into outer space like a Cowboy Bebop episode. Afterwards, “Broken Slumber” introduces audiences to a bit of the experimental sound that’ll be experienced throughout the project as it incorporates different forms of vocals, math rock guitars, space rock synths and a progressive/almost operatic feeling that’ll inspire spectators to continue listening. Then “Awake” is a blend of psychedelic, heavy and doom metal with vocals that feel like an entity from space is singing as the band continues telling the tale of a deity or creature who’s being awakened from a long slumber. Next “Unbound” is a stoner rock and psychedelic mix where the entity from the previous tracks is finally alert and decides to do what it desires. Later, “There’s No Place Like Space” is a stoner rock and doom metal mix that feels like the introduction of the next group of characters to enter the story, Space Force. Finally, “Space Force” closes the project with a space rock/math rock/prog rock-inspired tune that finds the story’s heroes joining the mix as they bring hope to humanity as they take on the creature presented in previous songs.
Overall, MOTHS’ Space Force is a fantastic mix of genres like stoner rock, space rock, psychedelic rock, heavy metal, and doom metal that come together as a piece of progressive metal to serve as the score of an interesting first part to a space epic.
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AuthorFernando E. E. Correa González is the author behind over 30 self-published poetry books. He has been published by literary magazines & journals [Id]entidad, El Vicio del Tintero, Sábanas Magazine, Smaeralit, The Occulum, Tonguas and Hound Magazine. Other than writing, Correa is also the host of FENCast, a podcast dedicated to documenting the Puerto Rican independent art scene. Aside from this, he experiments with filmmaking, photography, drawing, painting, multimedia and transmedia. He currently lives in his native Puerto Rico. Archives
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