Moodring symbolizes transformation.
The musical entity's name hints at volatility — color, emotion, and temperature in flux. Nowhere is that more evident than in "death fetish", a defining album for a haunting and defiant new chapter. For founder and frontman Hunter Young, this is more than a record.
It's survival, reflection, and metamorphosis. It is art made from the raw materials of pain, purpose, and persistence.
The album, steeped in nu metal, alt, and industrial influences, arrives today, March 27, via SharpTone Records. Get it here.
The moment is big for Moodring, whose sole goal was being as real as it gets. That might cause some discomfort, sure, but it's also the raw material for an incredibly genuine record.
"I just want to make authentic records," says Young. "I don't care about trends. I’m a producer, so I know when something’s fake. I know when the drums are programmed, when the vocals are tuned to death. I didn’t want to put out an album about the most human experience —losing control of your body and mind — and have it be fake. We did the whole thing with real amps, drums, and takes. I just wanted to make a dark, honest record, and if people don’t like it, I don’t really care. I had to do it for myself.”
The band has also dropped the visualizer for "STFA." Watch + listen below!
The Moodring origin story puts the timber and tone of the music in clear view.
Young conceived Moodring alone, in his bedroom, an exercise in catharsis through art. The resulting debut EP, 2021's "Showmetherealyou", resonated with a surprising number of diverse listeners. That connection inspired Moodring to evolve into a creative outlet that transcended its simple origins. Both sensual and suffocating, the "Stargazer" album followed in 2022. In a glowing review, Kerrang! praised the full-length as "hefty from the get-go" and likened it to "a cool wave of water lapping over you." The album's "vivacious" vocal work and vibe made new Moodring fans around the world.
The following year's EP, "Your Light Fades Away", expanded the palette further, fusing ferocity, shimmering melody, and nü-metal groove into something equally cinematic and claustrophobic. The "black-velvet nu-metal melodies and bleak-booming breakdowns" (Revolver) of 2025's "half-life" were, sadly, inspired by a life-changing medical diagnosis that left Young unable to tour with Moodring or his accomplished deathcore outfit, SharpTone Records labelmates PSYCHO-FRAME.
Unable to tour and unwilling to compromise, Young focused on writing and recording new music. "death fetish" is the sound of transcendence—an artist refusing to disappear, even as the light fades.
For all its darkness, "death fetish" is not a surrender. It's a reclamation. It’s Young taking back control of his narrative — body failing, mind racing, still creating, still here. "I just wanted to make a dark, honest record," he says. "And if people don't like it, I don't really care. I had to do it for myself."
Moodring, once a more traditional "band," now exists as something far more elusive and infinite: A vessel for transformation, a mirror for mortality, and a living testament to pain and creation.
Get the album:
https://bfan.link/death-fetish
"death fetish" traklisting:
1. Half-Life
2. Cannibal
3. Masochist Machine
4. Gunplay (Suicidal 3way)
5. Ketamine
6. Anywhere But Here
7. STFA
8. Oxidiezed
9. Bleed Enough
10. Sickf_ck
11. Die Slow
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