MOLYBARON

International alt-metallers set to win fans across genres

DANNII LEIVERS

RED FANG: JAMES REXROAD/PRESS PUT MOLYBARON ON any bill and they’ll conquer the room. It’s a skill the effervescent French/Irish alt-metallers have honed following years of ill-fitting line-ups, but the real test came when they were booked to support NYC’s doom-mongers A Pale Horse Named Death on their 2019 European tour. “Our music couldn’t be more different,” says Dublin-born vocalist and guitarist Gary Kelly, who formed the band in 2016. “We’d start off with our song Lucifer, and we noticed everyone standing with their arms folded. But by the second song you start to see the heads go and by the fifth song everyone was with us.” Combining SOAD’s hairpin turns and Muse-esque histrionics with the heart of Alter Bridge and Mastodon’s barbarian strength, Molybaron’s hooky sound is ripe for…

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Metal Hammer UK (Digital) - 1 Issue, August 2021

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