Herald Moth - Development of The Album

Development of The Album

On 5 October 2007 Dave McPherson announced on his personal MySpace that in the next few months he will be working on a new album for InMe. From his blog:

“ It is splendid to be home, getting clean clothes and resting the ears and chilling with loved ones. But InMe's next move is already on the cards...more news soon.

I will be using this time off to continue writing InMe's 4th project which is going to be something very different and challenging. The heavy technical stuff is going to be elaborated on as well as the slower songs are going to be thought out very intimately. Obviously these are very early days but one may as well get cracking.”

Dave started playing a new InMe song acoustically in his solo shows together with his solo lead-guitarist Ben Konstantinovic who consequently joined the band in the summer of 2008.

“He will be my lead guitarist from now on...as for InMe... We may be making a few massive changes come summertime.”

On 18 September, Dave revealed through his solo Myspace that the fourth album will be titled Herald Moth. He also released a video blog on YouTube where talking about the fourth opus. On 19 September, Dave revealed that Herald Moth will be recorded at Chapel Studios where Overgrown Eden was recorded with the producer Ewan Davies who produced InMe songs such as "Gelosea", "Inside", "The End", "Your Pain", "Angels with Snipers" and "Every Whisper Aches".

On 24 November the band revealed that their upcoming UK tour with Pendulum had been cancelled due to money problems but would however try and make the Brixton Academy dates possible. The band also revealed that they would be entering the studio to put the finishing touches to upcoming album Herald Moth on 5 January 2009 meaning that the album could be out as early as spring 2009.

On 1 December 2008 a selection of clips from the demos recorded for Herald Moth were uploaded to InMe's Myspace.

On 5 January 2009 InMe started recording Herald Moth with producer Ewan Davies at Chapel Studios in Lincoln. The band made a series of video diaries ("InMedia") of their studio antics. In February 2009 it was confirmed that InMe had finished recording the album and that it was ready for mixing and mastering.

A short UK tour was announced to commence in late April, leading many to believe that this is when the album was to be released around that time. Although the album was not released for another few months, several songs from the album were aired for the first time. These shows were the only shows to involve Ben Konstantinovic in a live setting and were InMe's first shows as a four piece.

On 6 April, InMe uploaded a new track from Herald Moth called "Nova Armada" to their MySpace. It is also rumoured that the album will be released in August. A day later, InMe Confirmed the album's final tracklist. It was also confirmed that the band will be uploading one song a month until the album's release (probably in late August) with a single to be released beforehand. The first of these tracks to be released on Myspace was "Nova Armada" followed by "The Art of Moderation" with "Belief Revival", "I Will Honour You" and "Ferocity in Desire" following on in later months. Following much speculation, the first single was announced as "Single of the Weak" which was released on August 17, a week later than intended, with Greg McPherson confirming this via the band's official forums.

On 29 June 2009, the band released the album's artwork via their MySpace, as well as setting a provisional release date of 31 August. Herald Moth was eventually released on 14 September through Graphite Records. It reached #68 in the UK chart.

The second single from the album, a double A side featuring "All Terrain Vehicle" and "Nova Armada" was released in June 2010 with an accompanying video for "Nova Armada".