Funeral Moth
Funeral Moth are a weird funeral doom band from Japan with growly, death metal vocals. They’re slow. They’re heavy. They’re sun-extinguishingly dark. They’ve got weird atmospheric noises and really off-kilter song structures that meander like a half-dead prisoner shuffling about in a dungeon. Their current vocalist used to be in a grindcore band called Brob In June. Is there anything to not like about this band?
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