The Atlas Moth release Coma Noir today via Prosthetic Records

Chicago experimental metallers, THE ATLAS MOTH, today release their new album worldwide via Prosthetic Records. Coma Noir has already picked up regional, national and international acclaim; To celebrate the album release, the band will hit the road tomorrow on a North American tour with Royal Thunder and Mirrors For Psychic Warfare; dates are below.

In addition to delivering an audio pummeling, THE ATLAS MOTH also have their sights set on other senses too as they have partnered up with Dark Matter Coffee to create the Coffee Noir brew. The coffee - which has accompanying tasting notes listing nougat, peach and amaretto - will be sold with a limited edition cassette version of Coma Noir; these bundles will be available on the impending tour dates, or direct from darkmattercoffee.com.

Coma Noir - their fourth album - marks a few firsts for the band; it’s the first release for LA indie metal, Prosthetic Records, it’s the first to feature Mike Miczek (Broken Hope) on drums, and it’s the first time the band worked with an outside producer. On previous releases, the band’s guitarist/vocalist, Andrew Ragin handled production duties. This time around, longtime friend, Sanford Parker (Eyehategod, Voivod) stepped in to steer the Coma Noir ship. An outside voice, one that the band was comfortable with, was key to channeling all the different elements the band brings to the table and keeping everything cohesive and concise. The record was later mixed by Lasse Lammert.

As the title suggests, the writing process was influenced by film noir, mixed with a love for the story telling found in graphic novels. Although it stops short of being a concept album, the threads of the initially planned narrative weave throughout the album's nine songs, a vehicle for real life experiences and emotions. Lyrically and thematically it stays loose, but clues are littered throughout; is the private detective hot on the heels of an evil cult anything more than a shadow or a figment of our imaginations? Coma Noir is the only way to unravel it all.

THE ATLAS MOTH w/ Royal Thunder & Mirrors For Psychic Warfare

• 2/10 Chicago, IL @ The Empty Bottle
• 2/11 Pontiac, MI @ The Pike Room
• 2/12 Toronto, ONT @ Hard Luck
• 2/13 Montreal, QUE @ Bar Le Ritz
• 2/14 Allston, MA @ Great Scott
• 2/15 Hamden, CT @ Ballroom at the Outer Space
• 2/16 Brooklyn, NY @Saint Vitus
• 2/17 Philadelphia, PA @ Voltage Lounge
• 2/18 Washington, DC @ DC9
• 2/20 Chapel Hill, NC @ Local 506
• 2/21 Columbia, SC @ New Brookland Tavern
• 2/22 Atlanta, GA @ 529
• 5/29-6/02 Seattle, WA @ Northwest Terror Fest

About The Atlas Moth

Formed in 2007, the band came up during an outpouring of heavy Chicago bands. Their self-released EP, Pray For Tides, was thick with sludgy licks and was a welcome addition to the city’s burgeoning output. They released a full length in conjunction with on Candlelight Records, toured with Helmet and Crowbar and then signed to Profound Lore and released what many called 2011’s album of the year, An Ache of the Distance. The band promoted that record worldwide, playing with Gojira, Devin Townsend, Intronaut and many others before releasing the aforementionedThe Old Believer. The roadwork put in for that release included dates with Between The Buried and Me, Scale The Summit, The Ocean and others.

The album will be available on all digital platforms, digipack CD and three limited edition LP variants. A run of clear with black spatter will be limited to 366 copies and only available in retail outlets worldwide. A clear with white splatter edition of 200 copies were pressed and only available in the Prosthetic US and European webshops. A deluxe version including an investigative case file envelopment containing confidential lyric sheets, photographic evidence, mysterious clues and mor, created by Ryan Oliver, is now completely sold out of the 100 copies, making this first pressing totaling 666 copies worldwide.