New Music & Video Release - Moodring shares visualizer for Death Fetish's 'STFA' - 28th March 2026
Photo credit - Olli Appleyard
Artist Name - Moodring
Release Name - Death Fetish
Release Date - 28th March 2026
Genre - Nu Metal, Alt Metal, Alternative
Label - SharpTone Records
“Emotive, dark, resplendent and defiant, it is ‘a living testament to pain and creation.’..loss and acceptance; darkness and light; our life and art’s infinity.” - Spotlight Report, 5/5
“The album is a major moment for the band, showing off their ability to not only write great songs, but also thrive in difficult situations and from those lows create art that will stand proud regardless of time.” - Amnplify
“...a dark, honest, inventive and confounding album about health struggles, facing limitations and death…if you like to think and engage with music and the lyricism around challenges, we will all face, then Death Fetish is the album for you: it’s beautiful, fragile and hardcore.” - No Barriers Au
“Addictive and combustible, Moodring’s death fetish is an album you cannot stop listening too. The uncontrollable urge to press replay, the sonic equivalent to the highs explored on the album.” - HiFi Way
“The record moves through anger, tenderness, confusion, and clarity, sometimes within the same song…the execution is confident, the performances committed, and the moments of vulnerability feel earned.” - Metal On Tap
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 is out now 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.
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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.
DEATH FETISH TRACK LISTING:
01. Half-Life
02. Cannibal
03. Masochist Machine
04. Gunplay (Suicidal 3way)
05. Ketamine
06. Anywhere By Here
07. STFA
08. Oxidiezed
09. Bleed Enough
10. Sickf_ck
11. Die Slow
12. ColdMetalKiss
DEATH FETISH - OUT NOW - https://bfan.link/death-fetish