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This one comes highly rated— Early Moods is described on their Bandcamp as a Doom/Heavy Metal band from Los Angeles, CA. On March 8 they dropped their newest release, A Sinner’s Past. It’s nine tracks of delicious fuzz-drenched guitars and echoing vocals right out of sixties psyche metal.
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The album shifts to old Candlemass-style drama and a Witchfinder sound. It’s doom metal with a throwback vibe. The strong tones tie everything together with a constant, low dynamic and a lot of high energy aggression. It’s a pretty balanced sphere of music with its percussive emotion and despairing feeling—more akin to the mystery of witchcraft. They bring a tunefulness of Black Sabbath and Pentagram, being inspired by early heavy metal.
I found Early Moods along with several other great metal bands from a little label called RidingEasy Records. They’re a gem. In addition to the more modern artists they support, the founders of RidingEasy records are collectors of extremely rare metal and doom greats; there are finds that have collected dust for years under the more artsy flair of bigger names from the 60s and 70s. Lance Barresi, co-owner of L.A.-based Permanent Records and the Permanent Records Roadhouse collaborated with RidingEasy Records to establish the “Brown Acid Series”; a compilation of passionately hunted down artists and old songs of the psyche, doom and acid metal era.
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Alongside Early Moods, there are treasures like The Goners (Good Mourning) and Warish (Runnin’ Scared). It’s definitely worth a look around the RidingEasy website for those out there who love Black Sabbath style nostalgic metal.