A kindred spirit to the strange and a sibling to the psychonauts of the world, Maple Moths are a Central Coast project who you can always count on for the right colour of wackiness.
Today we conjure up their latest, a deranged psychedelic spell called The Necromancer. Crafted with a creeping chunkiness and a witchy warble, it’s a bone fide hard rock jam that embraces the fantastical with practiced eagerness.
Like a fairy tale gone horribly, horribly wrong, The Necromancer from Maple Moths is a potent legend woven by naught but strings, skins and squalls.
Maple Moths is the solo project of Sean Dwyer, and to date the act has a single, self-titled release to their name. The Necromancer forms the first taste of a forthcoming EP, fittingly titled A Collection Of Horrors.
So if you don’t think you can handle a scare or two, now would be the time to turn back.
That being said, Dwyer isn’t without a few friends. Grady Henshaw at Ivory Lane Studios engineered The Necromancer, with Jacob Daalmeyer taking on mixing duties. Dwyer also enlists David Cunningham (Space Carbonara) as a live drummer and Charlie Band (Neighbourhood Void, Hedge Fund) on the bass when he hits the stage.
The new track follows a line set by canonical rockers Led Zeppelin, Black Sabbath, King Crimson and many more, fiercely incorporating ancient mythos into its veins with spellbinding effectiveness.
If the remainder of A Collection Of Horrors is anywhere as diabolically delectable as The Necromancer, colour us interested.
