Well, our so called promising vocalist has abruptly thrown in the towel after only two practices. Despite writing strong vocals to one song, he decided he couldn’t write to our music due to the odd time and experimental elements, even suggested we simplify things and make it more vocal friendly. Fair enough I guess but doing that would defeat the purpose of what we are about, so he obviously missed the point. Mothra thrives on experimentation and progressive songwritng. Pushing new ideas and creating challenging yet natural music for us and whoever wants to listen is what we are about. A shame because we felt he had the dynamics as a singer we were looking for. Next please.
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Mothra band tshirts almost sold out
Thanks to all who attended last night at the Galatos Basement. It was a great turnout in the end. We will no doubt have some more gigs lined up in the near future!
Our first run of tees are getting scarce, so get in touch if you want one. Mothra
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(Auckland progressive metal) Mothra Galatos basement show coming up.
We are playing the Galatos Basement Saturday Feb 5th with Osmium and Made in China (from the deep South of NZ), aswell as the awesome Arc of Ascent, who are opening for the Melvins, High on Fire, and Kylesa @ Whammy Bar very soon.
Only $10 on the door. We now have a vocalist working with us and he might even knock out a debut song, maybe. We will be on first at 9.30 pm, with merch! See you there.
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First run of Mothra tees now in stock! (Auckland progessive rock/metal)
It took a while but our first ever run of tshirts are now in stock. This is the Mothra ‘bug tee’. They are premium quality 100% cotton tshirts, professionally screen printed front and back. These tees are very limited and come with a high quality A5 vinyl sticker. They are $35 NZ each.
Sizes M, L, and XL are available in AAA skate style tees, or slightly finer cotton and slightly slimmer cut staple tees.
If you want to buy one and support Mothra please send payment of $35 NZ via paypal to mothrasound@gmail.com and we will dispatch the next day. Add $5 for postage within NZ, or $13.50 worldwide. Or come grab one from us at our shows.
Cheers, Mothra.
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2011 underway for Mothra (Auckland Progressive rock/metal)
It was good to slam out the set again the other night and get 2011 underway. A very limited first run of T shirts will be available very soon. We also have a very promising vocalist coming to practice this week, the guy has some serious chops, so hopefully it works out. We’ve trialed alot of singers over the last 2 years, this guy could be our man. Click tracks and E.P preparation is coming along slowly but surely, but with the vocal potential now on the cards things might take on a whole new form.
More shows will be announced shortly.
Peace.
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Mothra’s first show of 2011 (Auckland Progressive rock/metal)
Greetings, we’ll be playing at the Thirsty Dog on Auckland’s Krd on Jan 15 with our pals Big Punch and also Thrash City Victims. We’ll have brand new tees for sale and stickers too. Choice!
$10 on the door.
9.oo – Thrash City Victims
10.00 – Big Punch
11.00 – Mothra
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Mothra E.P progress (Auckland progressive rock/metal)
We are making good headway on the click tracks for the up coming E.P. 
The tempos need to be spot on so this man is ultra-comfortable when he lays his chops down.
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Mothra T-shirts
Unfortunately our print guy is a bit flat out for the christmas rush, but rest assured, the first batch of black tees with this red image will be ready after new years and available at gigs or directly from here.
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2010 : Auckland progressive metal, a productive year
It’s been a productive year for Mothra in 2010. We have played a whole heap of shows around Auckland, refined our music to a whole new level, and are thoroughly looking foward to
our upcoming E.P release. We have trialed a number of vocalists but no one has quite fit what we are looking for in terms of range and dynamics etc, but that’s ok. We enjoy playing our songs as they are and alot of people have said they don’t want to hear vocals over them. It is by no means easy music to write to, but finding the right vocalist for atleast some of the material is always on the cards. The E.P will be instrumental, but who knows maybe we will have some vocals further down the track. Go to the live footage page to check some tracks out if you haven’t already. Tee shirts and a new batch of stickers will be ready before christmas. Here is a new track from Hugh’s sideproject Scapeghost that may cross over into the Mothra live performance at some stage. Final Detachment
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Recording
We are preparing to record our debut E.P. From a pool of 20 songs written and rehearsed over the last 2 years we will probably choose 5. So a full length is also more or less written. At this stage we are getting the click track tempos sorted. Drum recording will commence mid Jan 2011 most likely at York St Studios Auckland.
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