MOS GENERATOR Announces Reissue Of Songs For Future Album
March 28, 2014, 10 years ago
Ripple Music and MOS GENERATOR have a long history of teaming up to bring the world the best in heavy stoner rock and are now unveiling their latest collaboration.
Originally, Mos Generator main man Tony Reed teamed with Ripple Music to release his then active band, STONE AXE (Stone Axe I, Stone Axe II, and Stone Axe Captured Live) and both parties knew they had to work together to bring back the raging sound of Mos Generator. At that time, Mos Generator had been inactive for five years, but Reed and Ripple Music broke that silence with the glorious LP/CD combination package of the 10th Anniversary re-issue of Mos Generator’s long-out-of-print debut album. Originally a CD only release, this was the debut album’s first ever release on vinyl.
The response was so strong that Tony Reed reunited the band and soon released the Ripple Music release, Nomads, which led to resurgent tours of Europe and an ever-expanding audience for the heaviness of Mos Generator.
Now, on the eve of their Listenable Records debut release Electric Mountain Majesty, Ripple Music and Tony Reed once again announce their team-up to bring the definitive, “Director’s Cut” version of the Mos Generator masterpiece album, Songs For Future Gods. Completely remastered, this reissue of the 2007 release (originally on Small Stone Records) features a completely new mix and two songs from the aborted recording sessions from January 2006. The digipack also features modified cover art and packaging. This is the album as it was originally intended and still redefines the sound of Mos Generator, a sprawling celebration of heavy amplification, fret-board psychotropics and kick-ass heavy rock. Songs From Future Gods is classic Mos Generator and this is the definitive cut of the album.
Electric Mountain Majesty will be released on April 15th via Listenable Records.
Recorded at HeavyHead Recording Company by guitarist / vocalist and renowned engineer Tony Reed (who co-produced SAINT VITUS' return album Lillie: F-65), Electric Mountain Majesty is the follow-up to Mos Generator's 2012 release Nomads
A sprawling celebration of heavy amplification, fretboard psychotropics and kick ass heavy rock, Electric Mountain Majesty is unquestionably Mos Generator's finest hour of its decade-plus existence. From chest-beating metal salvos like the massively loud 'Nothing Left But Night' and 'Black Magic Mirror' to more nuanced, slow-burning fare like the spellbinding 'Enter The Fire' through to colossal closer 'Heavy Ritual', the album is an amalgam of nasty and effervescent, alternating between ugly doom tones and lofty emotiveness, resulting in an epic, colorful listen brimming with richly-nuanced, timeless music that drips with melody, muscle and cool.
"Electric Mountain Majesty is an attempt to fuse our live energy and our usual controlled studio sound into something that I think is a nice forward step in the Mos Generator sound," says Reed. "We didn't over think the writing and recording process and we let more of our unconventional influences creep into the songwriting. In both composition and recording technique, this is the most diverse Mos Generator album to date."Tracklisting:
'Beyond The Whip'
'Nothing Left But Night'
'Enter The Fire'
'Spectres'
'Neon Nightmare'
'Breaker'
'Early Mourning'
'Electric Mountain Majesty'
'Black Magic Mirror'
'Heavy Ritual'
'Breaker':
Studio video:
Mos Generator is:
Tony Reed (guitar, vocals)
Scooter Haslip (bass)
Shawn Johnson (drums)