Möuth are a power trio from Stockholm, Sweden made up of long-time friends, bass player/vocalist Erik Nordström, guitarist Martin Sandström and drummer Fredrik Aspelin. They came together over a shared passion for proto metal, psych, and doom. Möuth’s debut album `Global Warning` is released to the world this month.
The album opens with `Holy Ground` a heavy stoner come doom offering that appears to relate to a place which has become a sacred or hollowed site through the sacrifice and brutal slaughter of its inhabitants . We have a pounding thumping rock out in `Dirt`, a track about a toxic relationship where the recipient derives an almost masochistic pleasure from the abuse.
`Speed of Life` has a fairly mesmerising pulsating beat with a cracking guitar solo shared in the last minute or so. We have a song about subservience in `Sheep` a kind of slavish acceptance of authority or what we are being told. There`s a nigh on tangible frustration shared in the vocals delivered a top a scorching soundscape which almost takes a time out before it resumes with bass, guitar and drums fusing together and leading us through an absorbing and spellbinding ride.
`World Pain` is a tender instrumental composition shared across an eighty nine second auditory reflection. I read that `Appetite` is about the relentless hunger for life, music, and thrills. A grinding, churning but enticing slice of heavy doom laden metal.
`Alike` has a faster and lighter more deft like touch initially but gathers depth and volume as it evolves and feels like we`re being taken on a trip to somewhere mysterious. The title `Mantra` relates to a word, phrase, or sound that is repeated to help focus the mind and body and here it seems to express that in musical terms as well. A delightfully sonic, psychedelic, prog like trippy submission.
The album closes out with `In My City` which felt pretty introspective lyrically with music that appeared to mirror that thoughtful observational tone.
`Global Warning` is a pretty engrossing and entrancing listen with some heavy stoner come doom vibes and more elegant energetic pieces but overall an enjoyable musical and lyrical headrush.
Rating 8.5/10
REVIEW: MÖUTH – GLOBAL WARNING (2025)
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