Manuel Möbs of Our Mirage

January 30, 2026·25 min·2 clips

Manuel Möbs discusses Armarage's new album Fractured Minds and how the band survived COVID lockdowns.

The host starts with the basics. Manuel says he is doing good but busy, and the small talk keeps the interview relaxed before the music-history thread takes over. His instrument story is pretty practical. He moved from piano into bass with enough theory and timing already in his hands that the switch did not throw him too hard. Bass suited the job. When he was singing too, he could strip back the flashier parts, keep the metric and timing steady, and still serve the song. Then the Our Mirage story lands. Timo first planned Nightfall as a solo single, but the music video needed an actor and Manuel wound up in it. Dreambound changed the size of the thing. Once the video went up and started catching attention, Timo realized the project probably could not stay tiny. He called Manuel and Daniel. Daniel already had history with Timo from another band, so the core came together fast after that first single. The label piece came next, with Manuel remembering Arising Empire stepping in through the early video momentum. COVID stays in the background. The cold open frames Our Mirage as a band that kept putting out music through lockdowns, so the new album feels more like a continuation than a comeback. Fractured Minds is the reference point. The episode gets into musical shifts, the band's relationship with Arising Empire, and how they keep moving after a hard stretch. By the end, Manuel is talking about a tour selling out, big summer festivals, and whatever follows Fractured Minds. He does not give away the next album or tour plans, but the direction is obvious enough: work the record, keep changing, keep going.

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A band-focused metalcore conversation about growth, arrangement, and what comes next.

Manuel and Armarage keep this one tightly on the band’s own path, and that works. The conversation tracks the move from piano to bass, then from a solo idea to a fuller band, while also making the case that musical understanding carries across instruments.

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For a patient metalcore origin story centered on Armarage's new album, Fractured Minds.

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