MOS GENERATOR
If there's such a thing as fusing some soul into a doom palette, MOS GENERATOR has achieved that. Seldom will you hear an unambiguous merge between the two outside of BLACK SABBATH's "Sabotage". Mos Generator have tapped into a loud vibe featuring sinister and coarse nuances yet with something revealing far more heart. — Ray Van Horn Jr., Blabbermouth
Mos Generator formed during the winter of 2000 in Port Orchard, Washington from the ashes of a ten‑year off & on collaboration between its three members, all long‑time veterans of road and studio. The need to strip down to the basics of hard rock was apparent from the start and remains the foundation for all the band’s recent material. Over 26 years the band has released 10 full‑length studio albums, three retrospective albums, three live albums and a plethora of split 7" and 12" singles on labels including Listenable, Roadburn, Heavy Psych Sounds, Glory or Death, Cleopatra, Small Stone, Ripple, Nasoni, Lay Bare, Hevi Sike, H42, Argonauta, Savant Guarde and Kozmik Artifactz.
Touring has been as vital to Mos Generator’s profile as making records. They’ve shared stages across Europe and North America with heavy rock luminaries and undertaken extensive tours with Saint Vitus, FU Manchu, Elder, Spirit Caravan and Atomic Bitchwax. Festival appearances — including two sets at Hellfest in France — helped expand their fan base and cemented their reputation for unfiltered, heavy‑hearted rock.
After 26 years of making music, Mos Generator show no signs of slowing down. “It’s as pure an example of heavy rock as I’ve heard.”
— JJ Koczan, The Obelisk
Interview with Mos Generator’s Tony Reed for their
“Live at Roadburn” release on Savant Guarde Records
The Plundering of the Vaults series came about with the intention of allowing fans to enjoy material from the band that is not widely available, thus creating compilation albums that work sonically and aesthetically like any studio album, and with Reed producing the material specifically for Cassette, and with National Audio Company supplying the tape, we have an Audiophile work of excellence that showcases some of the bands best material. Plundering Vol.2 compiles more of the groups rarest songs, and alternate takes compiled for the first time ever in album form. Plundering Vol. 1 was released to a limited run of only 100 copies on Cassette only, and sonically performs on par with any of the band studio albums, and as a fan of the group you will be equally impressed with its sequel, Vol. 2. Vol. 2 will be available only on Cassette as well, to which an initial run of 200 copies will be made; please order fast, Vol.1 is already running out and Vol. 2 is speeding off the wall before its arrived. Presale this Beast now.
Previously Unreleased Collected Material of Rarities and 7' / 12' only songs from Mos Generator's deep archives. Prepared and curated by Tony Reed for the first installment of a new series "The Plundering of the Vaults'.
Live at Roadburn Festival Tilburg Holland, April 19th 2008.
2xLP limited edition
Each copy of this limited run of 250 copies only, will include 2 LPS, one black, and one clear.