Job for a Cowboy - Beyond the Chemical Doorway (Official Video)
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Directed by Chris Klumpp - SFX & Makeup by Kelly Harris - VFX by Jim Hughes
Moon Healer is a vivid illustration of what happens when creativity, aggression, and volatility tangle for the first time in years. Like the band’s critically adored, 2014-released Sun Eater offering, Moon Healer is musically multifaceted, unabashedly brutal, and compellingly conceptual. Featuring a newly refreshed and reinspired lineup of frontman and co-founder Jonny Davy, guitarists Tony Sannicandro and Al Glassman, bassist Nick Schendzielos, and drummer (since 2020) Navene Koperweis, the band seamlessly picks up the mantle where Sun Eater left off.
Compared to past offerings, Moon Healer is as bone-crushing as JOB FOR A COWBOY has ever been. But it’s more consistent and conceptual, composed with the utmost enthusiasm and confidence. “The evolution of our sound has become a big part of the band,” Davy says. “As we mature as musicians, our tastes and interests naturally expand. With age comes more experience and ideas that we wouldn’t have considered in our earlier years.”
When discussing the lyrical genesis of songs “Grinding Wheels Of Ophanim,” “Into The Crystalline Crypts,” and latest single, “Beyond The Chemical Doorway,” Davy’s writing gets cryptic and elliptical-sounding, part Philip K. Dick, part Timothy Leary. “I envision this as a death metal album born from the mystical confines of an alchemist’s laboratory. The music acts as potent potions, inducing hallucinogenic journeys that unlock the secrets of the universe.”
With “Beyond The Chemical Doorway,” Davy explores Gnosticism -- an occult teaching based on Gnosis, a state of transcendence achieved through intuitive, unconventional means -- by way of Hieronymus Bosch’s art. Elaborates Davy, “On Moon Healer, we unravel the dismal narrative of a close friend consumed by an unwavering pursuit of enlightenment. They achieve this through a compulsive embrace of hallucinogenic drugs. This storyline emerges from the foundation set in our earlier album, Sun Eater, delving deeper into the intricacies brewing within our friend’s psyche.
“When under the influence of these drugs,” he continues, “this individual claimed to encounter entities and find themselves in indescribable worlds that defy rational comprehension. Many who undergo such experiences draw intriguing parallels between diverse facets of Gnostic philosophy, biblical depictions of angels, and the stages of Bardo Thodol delineated in the Tibetan Book Of The Dead. In the album’s opener, ’Beyond The Chemical Doorway,’ our friend vividly voices his hallucinations, recounting the experience of breaching forbidden, gnostic-like realms, with each account culminating in the utter unraveling of his being.”
LYRICS:
Horrors of lower gnostic realms have been crusted shut and are never to be unsealed
A crystallized coating obscures unraveling hells from my occultic eye, forever to be congealed
But this membrane decalcifies, it exposes the organ of souls
It bestows an immense gravity, weaving subatomic black holes
I rot in repetition, an eternal decomposition
This organic antenna mounts as the esoteric crown of my vertebrae
This organ woefully speaks, transmitting my consciousness beyond a chemical doorway
My hallowed eye now weeps of caustic tears which boil through skin, nerves, and cells
My flesh atomizes, broadcasting my being amongst demons within ancient hells
This organic antenna mounts as the esoteric crown of my vertebrae
This organ woefully speaks, transmitting my consciousness beyond a chemical doorway
Doorway!
I rot in repetition, an eternal decomposition
I rot in repetition, for as the skin dissolves I discover my floating vessel glistens
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