BIOGRAPHY:
Ashes Of Moon was founded by bassist and vocalist Matthias Fibrich and guitarist Michael Sägmüller in winter 2009 at their home town Bruck an der Mur, located at Upper Styria, Austria. The two musicians had been working on another music project till they decided to form their own band. The line-up was completed by two friends and former bandmates of Matthias, Dominique Studer on drums and Christoph Ajd as lead guitarist. First named “Tracked Grader”, the band recorded its first demo tape called “Course Of Truth” in 2010. Shortly afterwards they started to work on new material for the self-produced debut album “Ashes Of Moon”, which could only be released in fall 2012 due several intern delays (e.g. line-up-changes while recording).
In June and October 2012, Mario “Luis” Scheiber and Helmut Winter, both members of “Hellsaw”, one of Austria’s leading black metal bands, joined Ashes Of Moon to replace Christoph Ajd and Dominique Studer. Inspired by new influences and willing to expand the own style, the new formation started to work on new songs at the beginning of 2013. In winter 2013/14, Ashes Of Moon got signed by the Italian record label “WormHoleDeath” (part of the Aural Music Group) and recorded the album “The Darkness Where The Past Lay Sleeping”.

MUSIC:
The Music Ashes Of Moon is inspired by the members taste of music, mainly Scandinavian death, melodic death and black metal, but also classic and modern prog and and post rock. A contrast between hard riffs, aggressive growling and screaming vocals on the one side and catchy melodies, clean and acoustic guitar parts, mixed with prog and post rock elements on the other side, was created. The lyrics mostly deal with sorrowful feelings, love death and various emotions, often described by nature-related metaphors and tales. The band itself would describe its style as some kind of post melodic death metal.