Here's what I know about Funeral Moth: the trio of Makoto Fujishima (guitar/vocals), Nobuyuki Sentou (bassist/vocals) and Youichirou Azegami (drums) hail from the Kanagawa Prefecture in Japan, members had formerly played in bands like De-nihil, Coffins, Black Flower, and Deathchurch, and their self-titled debut for Weird Truth is a skull-flattening slab of extreme deathdoom served in two doses, the nearly seventeen-minute long "Ignorance" and the shorter but no less miserable "Depressive Dawn Of A Dismal Misty Day", which gets my vote for most understated deathdoom song title ever. Seriously though, as with everything else that we get from Weird Truth, this is top-notch extreme doom, and fans of bands like Thergothon, disEMBOWELMENT, Worship, Evoken, Funeral, Ataraxie, Asunder, Funeralium and Corrupted will love it. Huge dismal riffs move in extreme slow motion, with huge pauses in between chords crashing down and the minimalistic drumming, the beats stretched out into a black void. Add in the little bits of weirdness that appear in these two songs (weird yelping cries, creepy feedback-laden melodies played on a reverb-drenched guitar that sound like they are drifting out of a Japanese graveyard in the middle of the night, the sometimes clunky percussion that rattles around during the quieter moments between riffs, monk-like chanting...), and this becomes a often horrific sounding Japanese version of death/doom. The second track, especially...it's more abstract and ghostly than the first, with a monstrous Thergothon like riff and lumbering drums creeping forth, but surrounding the plodding doom metal are ringing guitar notes and ominous chanting vocals, clinky reverb drenched minor key melodies that sound almost like they are being played on a shamisen (it's just a guitar, though), lengthy passages of muted guitar and whispered vocals and nothing else, adding to that graveyard feel, the atmosphere of crawling through an ancient shadow-filled cemetary plagued by malevolent ghosts, falling into tombs, drinking in grave-earth. Very creepy, and very cool. These two songs are basically Funeral Moth's first demo which have been rerecorded for this release; the disc is limited to 1000 copies, and is packaged inside of a black gatefold jacket with minimal artwork.