Garry Brents - all guitars, bass, programming, vocals, production.
Samantha Kneeland - cover art
Lattice Parable - inside art on cassette j-card
Guests:
Eric Norton - "cyclonic rift" vocal part in track 1.
Manic Dream Girl - falsetto vocals on track 1, 2.
All songs written & produced between August 2 - September 23, 2024. Released on cassette via Negative Wingspan.
This EP is a collection of esoteric artifacts and alien relics from the Sallow Moth universe.
Relic of Deceptiva:
A miniature gravestone in the shape of a moth. A chamber for Tyria, queen of the defected mutant faction known as the Deceptiva. She was shrunken down to the size of a regular moth, rendered harmless and soulless. She floats through the chaos of space, eventually landing on Thryl-3M, a purple moon with soul-regenerative qualities.
Gutscape Navigator:
A living artifact insect that can be digested or implanted into one's digestive system. It can detect illnesses and viruses and eliminate them or manifest them, depending on motive.
Noctai Carapace:
Armor created by Noctai, a dark sorcerer and nightmare moth entity. It is bestowed with the power of flight and wards off nature or druid-based magic. It creates small fungal insects with poisonous attributes.
Return From Planar Chaos:
Through impulsive science and magic by the Thryl-3M's inhabitants, Tyria slowly reforms inside of a vial. She gains an enlightened consciousness, yet retains her innate desire to mutate other living beings.
EP Vial marks the relaunch of Sallow Moth. It scans as a bit of an odds-and-ends collection, but a potential picture of the project’s future nevertheless emerges. Vial is looser and more open-ended than previous Sallow Moth releases, augmenting the project’s Dismember-worshiping roots with forays into cosmic prog, tech-death, and post-rock.
“…brutal technicality of Brodequin and the slamming savagery of Suffocation with touches of progged-out hyper-pop and sequences of soothing ambience whose juxtaposition and contrast demonstrates the project’s continuing willingness to push the boundaries with little to no regard to custom or convention.”
