Sub Templum Explained

Sub Templum
Type:studio
Artist:Moss
Cover:Sub Templum.jpg
Released:May 26, 2008
Recorded:in 3 days in 2008; Foel Studios, Wales
Genre:Doom metal
Length:74:04
Label:Rise Above/Candlelight
Producer:Jus Oborn, Moss
Prev Title:Chthonic Rites
Prev Year:2005
Next Title:Tombs of the Blind Drugged
Next Year:2009

Sub Templum is an album by British doom metal band Moss. Released in 2008, it is their first for Rise Above Records (owned by former Napalm Death and Cathedral vocalist Lee Dorrian) and second overall. It was produced by Electric Wizard guitarist/vocalist Jus Oborn, and it features 4 songs, two of which are over 20 minutes in length (with the longest, "Gate III" being 35:31).

This album saw Moss move away from the partly improvised flow of first album Cthonic Rites and towards more structured pieces, which became even more evident on 2009's following EP Tombs of the Blind Drugged. For his review, allmusic's Greg Prato gave the record 2 stars, saying that "the Moss gentlemen seem to be more interested in seeing how much air they can push out of their maxed-to-ten amplifiers than in songcraft."

Track listing

Liner notes

In the liner notes for the album the band give a list of 'visual stimuli', which consists some of what the band watched during the recording process. The list is:

Personnel

Production