We caught up with the brilliant and insightful Moon Mane a few weeks ago and have shared our conversation below.

Moon Mane , thanks for taking the time to share your stories with us today What was it like going from idea to execution? Can you share some of the backstory and some of the major steps or milestones?

So, there were four punks from Little Rock Arkansas. They had little in common besides their abilities to play music and their disdain for authority. A crisp Easter night drove our four boys out into the dark seeking a little fresh air. Each was savagely stabbed to death and dragged away to an unmarked basement somewhere south of the Interstate. There, in the waning glow of candlelight, a ritual so foul it has no name was woven by the shadowy assailant. After the fell ceremony resolved, the four lifeless bodies on the ground rose to their feet. They were the first of Zombie Jesus’s dark harvest. These scions of unlife were filled to the bone with the gamma radiation released from the annihilation of all matter and the denouement of all soul energy the first Moon of the Purple Planet. So anointed, our four mountebanks began to play the song of His design and were harbingers of the coming of the Second Christ. He will reap the earth one soul at a time. Biding his antimatter and spinning ever-faster in the accretion of green wisps of unhallowed lunar control. His will break the lunar crust. His will release the leviathan that dwells in the subconscious of every system. He is the dark gestalt that makes life more than the sum of its parts. His will be done.
“The first birth celebrates life. The second birth mocks it.”
As the neonates finished their first practice, Zombie Jesus was pleased and left this realm as it took a great toll on his astral projector.
MOONMANE was born.
We are the Avatars of the greatest Zoltanian emanations. ZOON, scion and King of the Diamond moon for which he is named. Magmanar champion of the molten moon of Ignan. Francois DuBois, chief cleric of the sunken moon of Gondwana. Bobert, leader of the NAACP a moon of great importance to the imminentization of the eschaton.
That night, these four possessed victims went to bed, and they floundered in their search for rest. Instead, unquiet dreams of a woman shrouded in blue finery haunted their dreams.
“These are not your stars”
She whispered to their sleeping psyches. As each man awoke, he vowed to find her. There was little time to prepare. They rendezvoused at the same room they had practiced in. They loaded up the van. They went out to meet the Lady In Blue and to fulfill their destinies. No one has seen them since. Some say they were crazy. Others say they were just onto the secret truth of life that is only visible from under the ice.

Moon Mane , love having you share your insights with us. Before we ask you more questions, maybe you can take a moment to introduce yourself to our readers who might have missed our earlier conversations?

MOONMANE is a punk band of extraterrestrial inspiration. Theirs is a story of fantasy/sci-fi eschatology. The four heroes of the Zoltanian Membrane express the will and desires of our dark patron into the material plane. From the first excursion in the Van, they knew that America needed to know about the existential threat to all life on earth. It is no coincidence that MOONMANE was born in Arkansas at the foothills of the Ouachita Mountains in the outer eddies of that range’s crystal vortex. METATRON has been alerted to the existence of a profane emergence that threatens to tear the very psychosphere that took millions of years to develop. “History shows again and again how nature points out the folly of man”
The Lady In Blue summoned the four hierarchs of the Conflux and through treacherous deception lured them into a hole in the sky. A leap of faith landed them in the prison containing the elder Chaos entity whose name must never be spoken. Untying the Salient Knot, our heroes freed the Old Flame to reunite with the Lady On Blue. They join forced and empower the wretched people of the real world and turn the tide of the War in Heaven.
The well of epiphany burst forth with such vigor that the Manes could channel Chaos into more effective communication of His way and His shadow.

No longer do the downtrodden feel the weight of law breaking their bones and quashing their liberty. Gone are the days of compliant, thoughtless masses submitting to the pontiffs of an unfair system. MOONMANE is the purest shot of liberty, equality, and brotherhood. The work of casting off The Yoke is not easy, but with vigilance and Direct Action, they are the best shot humanity has. Cabalisation and infighting will not stop the march of consciousness into the long cold midnight of dissolution. Music is unique in the galaxy, as it cannot exist without an atmosphere to perpetuate the sonic vibrations of the soul. The event horizons present at every MOONMANE show are forever inundated with images and feelings that a person can change their stars. MOONMANE is a band of revolutionaries and they will not be satisfied until the last king is strangled with the entrails of the last priest. Little Rock protects its treasures and history buries them deep. With the power of the Shroud of Touring, the message has turned from generative spark to national conflagration. The common people will stoke the flames of change and the warmongers are publicly disemboweled.
One man has been given horrible visions of the perfected fireball earth. He is Dr. Forty-Seven. He alone has laid traps for MOONMANE in the labyrinthine passages of St. Joseph, Missouri. Every show they play above the darkness of that vadose zone draws the ancient soul energy of mental prescience closer and closer to the surface world. Weaving a complex pattern that zigzags across leylines and through social structures, their magic takes hold. With a snip of the string of fate, all minds know the one truth. Death is coming.

Can you share a story from your journey that illustrates your resilience?

As revolution gripped the lower echelons of society, MOONMANE’s influence grew far and wide. They were known for the nightscapes conjured into the mind’s eye of any listener. One need only to witness the blessed perfection of Ignan riffs and Lunar breakdowns to understand the gnashing of teeth. Bobulite is produced in the pineal gland of anyone who buys a tape or CD or shirt and finds themselves at home with no memory of how they got there or what had filled the void in their soul. Dentists, lawyers, cops, and politicians all reacted violently with hatred and invective towards the new meta. Anyone with nothing to lose was enraptured. Here is a guidepost by which to align a new astrological calendar. It is impossible to ignore an inspired reckoning. People will kill for that kind of light. The light that illuminates shadows hidden to the uninitiated. The wisps of Zoltane are growing. Already they are longer than the arms of the law. Soon they will break the lunar crust. Soon there will be a leveling of all playing fields for anyone with skin in the game. Robber Kings all, Anathema for Greed, Karzoug’s Bane, Los Lunaticos, Breakers of Fetters, Lions of RAXXARRAH. These are a few of the names that have been bestowed upon the unlife conglomeration that dwells in the hollows of Correct Society.

Any insights you can share with us about how you built up your social media presence?

When the four Lunar Lads were co-opted for their higher purpose, their minds were not sequestered away into a corner of obsequious obscurity. No, this possession was no Yeerk host-parasite relationship. Instead, the first mind remained and the champion within was superimposed onto it. Mutualism dominates the interior of the body-mind-soul triad and the musician becomes aware of the machine within which there are others. Each person protrudes grotesquely into the digital world half-formed and blind with skin pulled tight to cover the personal blemishes and boils. “One likes to believe in the freedom of Music, but glittering prizes and endless compromises shatter the illusion of integrity” MOONMANE has restored faith in the efficacy of the mind, the ownership of the body and the inscrutable nature of the soul. Of course, being composed of four men in the twenty-first century, MOONMANE is on social media. They’re prompt with replies that at first seem unhinged, and later are confirmed to be so. There is no filter. There is no compromise. MOONMANE is here to spread truth.

Contact Info:

• Instagram: MoonMane420
• Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/MoonManeLittleRock?mibextid=ZbWKwL
• Youtube: MOON Mane
• Other: https://open.spotify.com/artist/3QWrvs5ZdIto9Ae5DYRpj1?si=bHgeaHsPRh-K626fv4CYBQ&dd=1 https://moonmane420.bandcamp.com/album/demo-2019

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