Canadian sleaze n’ roll band The Death Wheelers announce new studio album »The Ecstasy Of Möld« on RidingEasy Records; title track streaming now!
Canadian sleaze n’ roll band The Death Wheelers has announced their new studio album, »The Ecstasy Of Möld«, which will be released on March 7th, 2025 via RidingEasy Records.
Listen to the first single and title track »The Ecstasy Of Möld«, available now on all major streaming services! https://ridingeasy.ffm.to/mold-single
Tracklist:
01. Loud Pipes Take Lives
02. Homicycle Maniacs
03. Hella Hammered
04. Un Pneu Dans La Tombe – Aide Musicale À Mourir
05. The Ecstasy Of Möld
06. Blood, Bikes and Barbiturates
07. Bleu Nuit (Les Plaisirs De La Chair)
08. Way Of The Road
09. The Heretic Rites Of Count Choppula
10. Get Laid… To Rest
Courtesy of RidingEasy Records:
Back with their musky, technicolor splatter scuzz, The Death Wheelers don’t dare ease the throttle on their drive to create soundtracks to what would be the world’s greatest fictional bikesploitation and gore film fest. These Quebec based zombie grease goons manage to evoke the sticky floor and stale popcorn smell of an old rundown Midnight movie theater with every stroke of a barre chord and bludgeoned snare drum. Theirs is a sound that does Herschell Gordon Lewis, Roger Corman and Russ Meyer proud.
Whereas their previous albums evoked the buzzsaw surf riffs of Davie Allen, Dick Dale and The Cramps, with the thunderous groove of Motörhead, their fourth album finds these troglodytes veering hard into classic 80s heavy metal while still maintaining the compelling urgency of Italian gore gods Goblin. It’s heavier, nastier, more driving and… dosed with pure backwoods möld.
In keeping with their B-movie aesthetic, the recording offers in-your-face, loud tones dripping with stench and nastiness. But it’s also some of the best produced vintage sounding underground metal you can get your claws on in these dystopian times.
Photo credit: Arold Blanchet
»The Ecstasy Of Möld« kicks off with the band’s signature sampled dialogue from some forgotten low budget sleaze flick, in which a demented character exclaims he will purify the world with blood… »Loud Pipes Take Lives« is a driving 1-minute, 36-seconds of chugging NWOBHM that spills forth into the thrashy »Homicycle Maniacs«. The title track explodes with a blazing fast opening riff, saturated in a heavy wah-wah lead that sounds like Kirk Hammett jamming with Motörhead. But the action shifts as quick as a bullet through a zombie’s brain into surf textures, and finally a dirge-like breakdown as our imaginary hero torches his home village of the damned. »Way Of The Road« gives a nice little nod the »The Immigrant Song« along the way as it bops every brat on the head with a baseball bat. Album closer »Get Laid… To Rest« is the album’s most psychedelic outing, with clean tone Floyd-ian arpeggios easing us out after the ultraviolence drenched intro.
The Death Wheelers released their debut album »I Tread On Your Grave« on RidingEasy Records in 2018. It was followed in 2020 by » Divine Filth« and 2023 by »Chaos And The Art Of Motorcycle Madness«, also on the label.
»The Ecstasy Of Möld« will be available on LP, CD and download on March 7 2025 via RidingEasy Records.
Pre-order here:
ridingeasyrecs.com | thedeathwheelers.bandcamp.com
Bojan Bidovc // music enthusiast, promoter, misanthrop and sometimes a journalist as well