A Sinner's Mood

At the end of 2022, I discovered the band Early Moods. It had been a long time since I'd had a new doom band grab my attention like that, and I quickly picked up their first album. When I heard that the band was releasing A Sinner's Past this year, I jumped in for the preorders.

Having not really listened to a lot of metal this year, it took me some time to appreciate the new Early Moods record... but once it clicked, it CLICKED. A Sinner's Past keeps on in a similar vein as the self titled album with the heavy doom influence of Candlemass. This is so good and I'll be reaching for this record a lot when I want this style this year.

I have no information about the colored vinyl, but I like how it looks!

Early Moods

About ten years ago, my playlists were packed with newer doom bands. Stuff like Orchid, Blood Ceremony, Kadavar and Orange Goblin were in constant rotation at the time, and I was super excited to be discovering all of those newer doom greats. It feels like it has been quite a while since a newer doom band has caught my attention like that, but as we were getting ready to close out 2022, I was introduced to Early Moods.

There was someone on Instagram that had the self-titled Early Moods record listed in their Top 10 for 2022. I'd never heard of this band, but since we shared a number of records on our top metal list for the year, I figured that I'd quickly check them out. I jumped to their youtube video for Return To Salem's Gate and holy fuck... I was floored. This was some amazing Pentagram/Candlemass influenced doom. Honestly, I can't remember the last time a newer doom metal band had me this excited. I was so impressed that I had to make a last minute change to get them included in my year end recap post, even though I didn't have the vinyl yet.

Riding Easy had a "hand pour" colored vinyl option. I wasn't sure what that meant, but it turned out to be this splatter pattern. I've seen worse, and I actually kind of like that way that it looks catching my camera flash in these photos.