Moor announce debut album ‘Heavy Heart’

March 4, 2023 James Weaver

MOOR have announced their debut album!

Titled Heavy Heart, the upcoming album from the German doom metal band is their debut full-length album and is scheduled to be released in May this year, via Blood Blast Distribution/Believe Digital.

The upcoming debut album was written and recorded by the original lineup featuring singer and guitarist Kasalar, guitarists Ben Laging and David Kaiser, bassist Christian Smukal and drummer Chad Popple. All of them have earned their spurs in other bands or projects and have appeared with TEPHRA, SPORT, THE OCEAN, GORGE TRIO or RHA.

Within weeks of recording, two band members were diagnosed with cancer – Ben Laging and Christian Smukal. Tragically in 2022, co-founder and bassist Smukal lost his battle, tearing a huge gap in the band’s structure. Heavy Heart intends to be his farewell letter, his mournful legacy. “For me, it’s a gift to be a part of Christian‘s last recordings,” says guitarist David Kaiser. “The sessions together before we went into the studio were very inspiring.” Kasalar adds, “everything we did during that time, all the strokes of fate we went through together formed this heavy heart, and it will keep beating.”

Alongside the announcement of the debut album, MOOR have released a new music video for a new song lifted from the upcoming debut album; Tears From Acrid Smoke.

Speaking about the new song, vocalist Ercüment Kasalar says, “our first single deals with the feeling of the inner fight that you face when you burn a bridge in your life. Crossing it, getting hit by the acrid smoke of the burning pain but leaving it behind and moving on.”

Watch the official music video for Tears From Acrid Smoke here: