MOLOKEN
RURAL

Rural, Moloken's second full length album was orginally released on CD in 2011 and is now finally available on LP.

On this album the band displays a strong musical showcase of innovative songs. Seven tracks spanning over 52 minutes in which all songs have their own expression but rests on a solid base of dark experimental metal. Rural is in many ways a natural continuation of previous works but also shows a clear experimental lust. They dig deeper into their musical landscape with songs that are both slower and faster, harder and softer, darker but lighter and offer one another unexpected twist. The album is also the first with new guitarist Patrick Ylmefors along with founding member Kristoffer Bäckström has developed and refined the guitar role and now has a more prominent role in the sound. And like last time, no guitar overdubs or drum trigg, no effects or equalizers were used in the channel chain during recording. The few effects / compressor / eq used, is added in the mix and the idea is the same, to achieve the feeling of a live concert. The album is also mastered a bit lower to keep more of the dynamics. The result is an album that requires some time of his listeners, but it just makes the reward all the greater.