Funeral Moth was formed by Nobuyuki Sentou(ex-Coffins/ex-Psycho To Black), Makoto Fujishima(ex-deathchurch/nyarlathotep), and Junpei Ishimaru(Morquido) in Autumn 2005. Funeral Moth's debut live was held on May 3rd 2006 and shared the stage with some international bands like StarGazer(Aus), Gallhammer, Intestine Baalism and so on. In November 2006, they recorded 1st demo at Noise Room Studio, at which Nobuyuki recorded many stuffs as Coffins/Psycho To Black member. "The Moth Flying to the Funeral Sky" was released by Makoto's own label Weird Truth Productions in 2006.
In the end of 2007, Junpei left the band due to his busy private life. Soon after he was replaced by Yuichiro Azegami(Brob). With this new lineup, they re-recorded 2 songs on demo and which was released as first self-titled CD EP in June 2008. In June 2008, they shared the stage with German doom cult Worship in Tokyo.
In July 2010, they toured with Australian doom band Mournful Congregation. During this tour, Takafumi Matsubara(ex-Gridlink/ex-Mortalized) played with them as a special guest. After the tour, they started to seek permanent 2nd guitar player and finally in January 2012 Mayo Odium(Dogoh) joined.
In July 2013, Mayo Odium left the band and he's replaced by Tomohiro Kanja(Realm[Negativeaidguerrilla Realm]/Discrete Corporality). In February 2014, their 1st album "dense fog" was released and toured with Worship in Japan again.
In February 2015, they played in Taipei which was first time for them to play outside Japan. In May, self titled EP was re-released as 12" vinyl by Chinese label Psychedelic Lotus Order and 2x 12" vinyl version of dense fog album was released by Spanish Throne Records. In July, they played at Fearest Death Cult in Osaka, which was the last gig for Nobuyuki as a Funeral Moth member. He was replaced by bass player Ryo Amamiya(Presence of Soul) and they started to record 2nd album "transience", which was released in March 2016 from Weird Truth Productions.
In September 2019, they played at mighty Killtown Deathfest, and they released new single "polar" just before KTDF. Unfortunately, Tomohiro left the band after KTDF and they decided to continue as 3 pieace band again.
2020 was the beginning of doom... Covid-19 forced them to fall asleep for a while. During Covid-era, they had arranged old songs for 2 guitars for single guitar, and had written new songs, played gigs in Japan. Now they are preparing for 3rd album.
[ Current Lineup ]
Makoto Fujishima : Guitar/Vocal
Ryo Amamiya - Bass
Yuichiro Azegami : Drums