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May News New Album The new Mourning Beloveth album will be recorded in
Studio e, Germany in October. We are in the process of writing the new
material with two songs complete, two nearing completion and 4 more still
in their embryonic stages. By the time the album is ready to record we
should have 6 tracks and they will display an eclectic mix of soft acoustic
guitars combined together with driving melodies and mesmerising, slow
guttural soul crushing doom. The apocalyptic atmospheres of certain sections
are only highlighted by the intensity and bleak diversification of the
more up-tempo parts creating a melting pot of desolate DOOM METAL. The
lyrical content is one of light and shade, the extremes of life and the
grey cosmos between where as vocally the concept of extremes are again
employed as Darren and Frank trade off ethereal harmonies with mind destroying
growls that has been a trademark of previous releases. DSR Tour Well, another tour over and another territory gained. It's hard to believe this years trek of doom was our 3rd tour abroad in 14 months. This time we thankfully got to play Germany which for me made this trip one of the highlights of our history together as a group. The usual moments of madness and craziness that tend to follow MB around struck at times again and again to help keep everyone on their toes. It began at Doom Shall Rise and what an amazing setting
for two days of doom, drink and a lot of fun. We played before Count Raven
on the Saturday night in front of 500 people. It was a nerve wrecking
experience but we played a great set and it went down very well with a
very enthusiastic crowd. We had 50 people up front singing parts of the
songs and the sound on stage really helped us. On then to three days in
Germany kicking off with a great gig in Rockfabrik after a night of mayhem
and ice t in our tour managers house. Two more dates in Munich and Nurenberg
were well attended and then on to a night of madness in Wurzburg where
we had time to do a bit of sightseeing before the gig. Nice city full
of old gothic cathedrals and huge bridges. We then moved to Holland and
the Baroeg where we played first and it was an under par performance due
to lack of sleep and too much alcohol the night before but the next night
in Vera really made up for it. Great sound, lighting and great food and
we sold all our merchandise on that night, it was probably one of our
best performances of the tour and the large crowd seemed to enjoy it too.
And finally to the Belgian Doom Night and we met a lot of friends before
the set so it was like playing in our home town. We even got called back
for an encore and some were shouting for In Mourning my Days which we
hadn't played since the previous June but it went down well and there
was a lot of energy in the air that night, or was it the Belgian beer
that was flowing…..? We have added picture of DOA and DSR tours and the setlists of the DSR tour to the gig history. Merchandise The TSS shirts arrived two days before the tour so we
brought half them with us and sold out of them before the tour was over.
We still have approximately 30 left so get your orders in quick. They
are also available from Aftermath Music. |