Electronic Press Kit

The cool one, written by WIFI Gold

Kurt Cobain said one thing: the only tie-dye shirt he would wear would be dyed with the blood of Jerry Garcia. And the stoner-doom band Mother Bear sounds exactly like that: something between patchouli and piss, between a burnt-out tube in the guitar amp and a kicked-over acrylic bong.

The riffs are as bone-dry as the permanent cardboard mouth of a pimply teenager. Kevin’s bass sound is heavier than the burden of being bullied in school for reading fantasy books. Singer Jonas sounds as if he's gulping down a little bit of the previous night's Pernod through his oily throat and drummer Florian's snares are reminiscent of the muffled sound you heard the last time your ex-girlfriend threw a heavy glass ashtray at your skull during an argument. With their second album “Orm 2”, the three losers from Dortmund show impressively that you don't have to come from Louisiana, Palm Desert or Dorset to write dull doom songs about fantasy novels and ignore the mold problem in the rehearsal room. The soundtrack for people whose only interpersonal contact consists of regularly shouting at the cashier at the supermarket, for 30-year-olds who still hang out on pissed-up halfpipes and don't pay child support or are simply too shy to admit that they would much rather read Walter Moers than watch mediocre sexploitation films with a half-hard willy.

Get the fuck out of my room mom!

The serious one

Formed in 2017 in Dortmund, Germany, by Florian Grass (drums) and Kevin Krenczer (bass guitar) alongside their former blues and psych band Saint Gallus Convention Tapes and their short-lived noise/drone project Nakapan, the stoner doom band released their demo “Bear Mother” the same year, followed by the single “PKB-7”. After a short hiatus, Jonas Wenz, bass player in the hardcore band Second Sight, joined the cathartic doom duo on guitar and vocals, leading the the sloth of bears to switching their sound to a more song-oriented, psychedelic sound. United in their worship of the muggroom, their love for loud amps, as well as the creed of “slow music for slow minds”, Mother Bear truly does their namesake justice. After their debut album “Zamonian Occultism”, a collaborative split-EP with Rhode Island-based folk singer Allysen Calelry, life gigs with EyeHateGod, Eremit or Monastr as well as non-genre acts like Giant Crow, they will release their second longplayer “Orm 2” (hopefully) in 2026.

1. Allysen Callery – Witch's Hand (03:07) 
2. Mother Bear – Beautiful Teeth (Allysen Callery Cover) (07:21) 
3. Allysen Callery – I'm Not Scared of the Dark (04:02) 
4. Allysen Callery feat. Mother Bear – Death Skull (04:13) 
5. Mother Bear feat. Allysen Callery – Consuming Rite (09:04) 
6. Allysen Callery - Rat 03:08

Credits:
Guitar & Vocals: Jonas Wenz 
Bass: Kevin Krenczer 
Drums: Florian Grass 
Written by Mother Bear / Allysen Callery
Recorded & produced by Florian Grass
Mastered by Bernhard Rupprecht
Design & Layout by Florian Grass

A1. Smeik (08:03)
A2. Anagrom Ataf (07:51)
A3. Sultan Abu (05:19)
B1. Blue Bears & Silver Spliffs (06:15)
B2. Zamonian Occultism (03:45)
B3. The Wizaaard (10:08)

Credits
Guitar & Vocals: Jonas Wenz
Bass: Kevin Krenczer
Drums: Florian Grass
Written by Mother Bear
Recorded, produced & mastered by Arno Augustin
Cover Artwork by Sarah Gräfingholt
Design & Layout by Florian Grass