Featuring ex-members of Torche and Royal Thunder, MOON DESTROYS shifts from shimmering post-rock to driving riff-doom and back to shoegazy psychedelia

Formed by Juan Montoya (ex-Torche) and drummer Evan Diprima (ex-Royal Thunder), MOON DESTROYS released their first EP 'Maiden Voyage' in 2020. The 5-song debut featured contributions from Troy Sanders (Mastodon) and Bryan Richie (The Sword), and laid an early foundation which came fully into focus when vocalist/guitarist Charlie Suárez (MonstrO) and bassist Arnold Nese completed the band in 2024.

April 2025 found MOON DESTROYS thrust into the limelight, securing support slots on tour with Elder that month and Dozer during the summer, and the band self-released debut full-length 'She Walks By Moonlight' in limited form just in time to have something new to sell on the road. Instantly, the new record showed their rapid evolution beyond the members' connections to their former bands.

Gritty and distorted yet hazy and hypnotic, 'She Walks By Moonlight' shifts from shimmering post-rock to driving riff-doom and back to shoegazy psychedelia. It's a cinematic and otherworldly journey from a band who breeze easily into the environs of Floor, Mother Love Bone, The Jesus and Mary Chain, Russian Circles and Ride, ultimately collapsing all efforts at categorization into an effervescent, compulsive, sparkling haze.

Blues Funeral proudly presents the proper worldwide release of 'She Walks By Moonlight' in anticipation of more touring and a new album to follow in 2026.

Track Listing

• She Walks By Moonlight
• The Nearness of June
• Only
• Set Them Free
• A Song for Jade
• Losing Sleep
• Echoes (The Empress)
• Metallic Memories
• Sway

Additional Details

Label: Blues Funeral Recordings

Genre: Metal

Language: English

Run Time: 32:17 mins

Region: 0

Release Date: 10/17/25

UPC: 760137194224