After 23 years, this is their masterpiece
This Halloween, MOURNING BELOVETH played their fifth album,Formless, in full. It marked the end of that album’s life cycle as the band began preparations to usher in a new chapter in their rich history. That chapter is titled Rust & Bone, and it will be released in early 2016 via Ván Records.
To give their previous album a fitting send off is in keeping with the nature of the next. Rust & Bone – transitional, elemental, representing life and decay, the battle between the organic, the industrial, and our shifting place in the Great Game. Forged from rust and bone over nine months and recorded at Skyhammer Studios in six days.
The resulting body of work is – on paper at least – five tracks of music, however, the album is designed to be listened to as one continuous, living piece of music. Having found their stride, emboldened, MOURNING BELOVETH have pushed their own boundaries; utilising a hand crafted acoustic guitar that makes it’s presence felt throughout, climaxing in the mournful, yet hauntingly beautiful album closer ‘A Terrible Beauty Is Born’, they have also found a comfortable place with their choice of lyrics – both their own, and those borrowed from the likes of Yeats and Beckett.
With Rust & Bone, MOURNING BELOVETH have created something that they’re proud to call Irish music; representing their roots, torn from the stomach of the land and forged in the stars of their ideal.
In their 23 year history, MOURNING BELOVETH have now notched up six albums, summed up by Kerrang! magazine as “both malevolently evil and bizarrely beautiful, a balancing act of some consummate skill”; they have also gained a reputation for evocative and at times sombre live performances.
MOURNING BELOVETH will be on tour:
3/12 DE HAMBURG – Hafenklang
4/12 DE OBERHAUSEN – Helvete
5/12 DE FREIBURG – Crash
6/12 CH OLTEN – Coq d’Or
7/12 IT PARMA – Titty Twister
8/12 SLO LJUBLJANA – Club Gromka
9/12 CZ PRAGUE – Modra Vopice
10/12 PL WROCLAW – Ciemna Strona Miasta
11/12 DE LEIPZIG -Bandhaus
12/12 NL EINDHOVEN – Effenaar
*Band photos due shortly*
