Job for a Cowboy have announced their first full-length in a decade. The Arizona-founded extreme metallers will return with new album Moon Healer on February 23 via Metal Blade Records.
Arriving 10 years after fourth studio LP Sun Eater, the eight-song Moon Healer orbits a concept centred "around a close friend who embarked on a relentless quest for profound enlightenment through the incessant abuse of hallucinogenic drugs, leading to a severe disconnection from reality due to the toll it took on their mental health," vocalist Jonny Davy shares in a release.
The album was recorded in Sanford, FL, with producer Jason Suecof (Death Angel, the Black Dahlia Murder, Deicide), and marks Job for a Cowboy's first recording with session drummer Navene Koperweis (Entheos, Animals as Leaders, Animosity).
"I envision this as a death metal album born from the mystical confines of an alchemist's laboratory," Davy adds. "The music acts as potent potions, inducing hallucinogenic journeys that unlock the secrets of the universe."
Following previously shared single "The Agony Sweeping Storm" is Moon Healer closer "The Forever Rot," which continues in the progressive metal-oriented direction taken on Sun Eater. You can hear it in the player below.
Davy explains how "The Forever Rot" touches on the aforementioned protagonist's "beliefs that human evolution and development have somehow led to the restriction of perceiving otherworldly or inter-dimensional realities and religious entities," delving into "their disconnection from the physical world and the notion that true vitality may be found in the ability to self-destruct and recreate. That some of the drugs they consumed opened these realities that evolution has closed the door on."
Pre-order Moon Healer.
Moon Healer:
1. Beyond the Chemical Doorway
2. Etched in Oblivion
3. Grinding Wheels of Ophanim
4. The Sun Gave Me Ashes So I Sought Out the Moon
5. Into the Crystalline Crypts
6. A Sorrow-Filled Moon
7. The Agony Sweeping Storm
8. The Forever Rot
Arriving 10 years after fourth studio LP Sun Eater, the eight-song Moon Healer orbits a concept centred "around a close friend who embarked on a relentless quest for profound enlightenment through the incessant abuse of hallucinogenic drugs, leading to a severe disconnection from reality due to the toll it took on their mental health," vocalist Jonny Davy shares in a release.
The album was recorded in Sanford, FL, with producer Jason Suecof (Death Angel, the Black Dahlia Murder, Deicide), and marks Job for a Cowboy's first recording with session drummer Navene Koperweis (Entheos, Animals as Leaders, Animosity).
"I envision this as a death metal album born from the mystical confines of an alchemist's laboratory," Davy adds. "The music acts as potent potions, inducing hallucinogenic journeys that unlock the secrets of the universe."
Following previously shared single "The Agony Sweeping Storm" is Moon Healer closer "The Forever Rot," which continues in the progressive metal-oriented direction taken on Sun Eater. You can hear it in the player below.
Davy explains how "The Forever Rot" touches on the aforementioned protagonist's "beliefs that human evolution and development have somehow led to the restriction of perceiving otherworldly or inter-dimensional realities and religious entities," delving into "their disconnection from the physical world and the notion that true vitality may be found in the ability to self-destruct and recreate. That some of the drugs they consumed opened these realities that evolution has closed the door on."
Pre-order Moon Healer.
Moon Healer:
1. Beyond the Chemical Doorway
2. Etched in Oblivion
3. Grinding Wheels of Ophanim
4. The Sun Gave Me Ashes So I Sought Out the Moon
5. Into the Crystalline Crypts
6. A Sorrow-Filled Moon
7. The Agony Sweeping Storm
8. The Forever Rot
