Mosfite – The Offering

Finnish Mosfite’s new EP, ”Homini Lupus est” offers a package of metal with echoes of trash as well as progressive metal and even grunge – just like the pre-taste of their recent single “Enemy” promised.

Listen to the EP on music services (Spotify, Apple Music, Tidal, Deezer, YouTube Music etc.): https://push.fm/fl/mosfite-hominilupus

“Enemy” blasts out a very trash-influenced experience, complete with a style-staple guitar into that was left out in the single version, followed by “Brickslayer” moving into a little more traditional melodic metal territory and lyrics talking about a sad fate. The third song, ”Rules of War” switches on to a slower gear, teleporting the listener via the nineties with its grunge-flavors on to future, where AI has stopped the humankind from destroying itself – by destroying it first.

The fourth song, “Tanktop”, gets quite serious with a story about domestic violence, where in the end the victim is forced to act against the terror endured. The song is complex and multi-part in progressive style, with rhythmic tricks and time signature changes, while still retaining the drive of the previous songs.

The EP’s final song, ” 6ft Deep”, is a moody softer tune, which however also gets back to trash-y tempo by the end of it. All in all, the EP offers a versatile and nicely variation-rick package from the Finnish quartet bent to keep things honest and real!

The musical influences of Mosfite stem from New Wave Of British Heavy Metal, thrash metal and progressive rock and metal. They try to stay away from the modern, overproduced lifelessness, aiming to sound honest and big, yet dynamic and alive.

Mosfite was established in 2021. The debut album Mosfite released in 2022.

Antti Heikkinen: vocals and guitar

Petri Hietikko: guitars and backing vocals

Jukka Latikka: bass

Sami Ulvi: drums

Recorded by: Antti Heikkinen

Mixed by: Juho Hämäläinen

Mastered by: Antti Heikkinen

Discography:
Si Vis Pacem (single, 2024)

Open Wide (single, 2023)

She’s a Machine (single, 2023)

Mosfite (album, Aug. 2022)

Garden (single, 2022)

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Mosfite, who craft melodic metal with a progressive twist in Kuopio, Finland, releases a five-song EP Homini Lupus Est in March. As a preview, the first song off the EP, Enemy is now out.

The song contains catchy riffage and rhyming while the lyrics talk about the difficulty of negotiation when facing an attack – how to stand firm when retreat and surrender are out of the question.

– My lyrics typically deal with weltschmerz, juxtapositions and problems. Science fiction, war and the consequences of it, generally the endless stupidity of the humankind is often under the microscope in one way or the other. Joyful themes are far and apart in them, as I gather inspiration mainly from dystopic movies and books, the singer-guitarist Antti ”DeeAa” Heikkinen explains.

Watch the music video: https://youtu.be/Tffrnsce0XI

Listen to the single on music services (Spotify, Apple Music, Tidal, Deezer, YouTube Music etc.): https://push.fm/fl/mosfite-enemy