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MOON ORACLE set release date for new SIGNAL REX / BESTIAL BURST album debut, reveal first tracks

Today, Signal Rex, in conspiracy with Bestial Burst, announces April 13th as the international release date for Moon Oracle‘s highly anticipated second album, Ophidian Glare, on CD, vinyl LP, and cassette tape formats.

It was but 2021 when Moon Oracle burst from the void, fully formed, with their Muse of the Nightside debut. Also jointly released by Signal Rex and Bestial BurstMoon Oracle’s first public recording portrayed the power-trio as astute auctioneers of pure-yet-idiosyncratic metal, equally informed by archaic black metal and eldritch doom. With its bass-heavy crunge and wild tribal drumming, little else around quite sounded like Muse of the Nightside.

And so it goes with Ophidian GlareMoon Oracle’s second full-length exploration of that battleground between the Id and the Ego. The album’s opening birth pangs suggest their barbaric primitivism will be exaggerated to obscene lengths, but patience rewards the intrepid – or ignorant, as it were – as Ophidian Glare soon blossoms into startling shapes at once vulgar and artful. The ever-present pulse of filth still guides Moon Oracle, but much of the preceding wildness has been reined in (or at least refined), resulting in an altogether more atmospheric sound that allows haunting spaciousness to enter and thereby make the barbarism hit that much harder. Perhaps the album’s unique charm can be summarized by the track title “Nethereal Axe.”

Still cold and alone in their uniqueness amongst an underground that rewards conservatism, Moon Oracle continue to pursue their equally ancient avant-garde muse with increasingly adventurous results. True deviants and outsiders, behold their Ophidian Glare!

In the meantime, hear the brand-new tracks “The Numinous Gate Opens” and the aforementioned “Nethereal Axe” HERE at Moon Oracle‘s Bandcamp. Cover and tracklisting are as follows:

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Tracklisting for Moon Oracle’s Ophidian Glare
1. The Numinous Gate Opens [4:44]
2. A Vision in the Mansion [3:50]
3. Nethereal Axe [2:43]
4. Serpent’s Word [3:47]
5. Widdersyns – Against the Current [4:19]
6. Abysmal Crimson Desert [10:58]

MORE INFO:
www.facebook.com/MoonOracleFinland
www.moonoracle.bandcamp.com

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