Track Listings (3) - Disc #1| All Artists: Monarch! Title: Dead Men Tell No Tales Members Wishing: 0 Total Copies: 0 Label: Crucial Blast Original Release Date: 1/1/2007 Re-Release Date: 3/13/2007 Genres: Alternative Rock, Special Interest, Rock, Metal Styles: Experimental Music, Death Metal Number of Discs: 2 SwapaCD Credits: 2 UPCs: 790168554124, 0790168554124 |
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Hailing from the picturesque Northern Basque Country of France, MONARCH! unleash a slow motion avalanche of impossibly glacial, blackened sludge and hypnotic feedback, each epic tarpit riff stretched out eternally over ... more » |
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Album Description Hailing from the picturesque Northern Basque Country of France, MONARCH! unleash a slow motion avalanche of impossibly glacial, blackened sludge and hypnotic feedback, each epic tarpit riff stretched out eternally over ultra-lumbering drums and rumbling speaker cabinets. Over these yawning expanses of black void appear the demonic, throat-shredding shrieks and ghostly singing of Emilie. Beyond heavy. Mega-crawling ambient doom/drone/sludge in the tradition of Melvins, Corrupted, Noothgrush, and Black Sabbath. This double CD set contains both MONARCH!'s new LP Die Tonight, and the out-of-print Speak Of The Sea LP, both released in limited vinyl editions as European imports, with additional unreleased songs exclusive to this release. Dead Men Tell No Tales is presented in an offset-printed, 4 panel case printed by Stumptown Printers, with all new original artwork in the band's unique Sanrio-influenced style. Similar CDs
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CD ReviewsSky-crushing blood-letting music B. Parker | oh | 10/25/2008 (5 out of 5 stars) "A friend at a record store lent me a copy of this (with the verbal warning "this is dark *%#@, dude"), and I was so enthralled, on my next visit I bought my own copy. One of the best moments of musical discovery for me, ever. It even surprised me to find out they were a French group. But hey, if anyone knows despair, it's them right?
In the last few years I've really started digging darker, more densely textured HEAVY stuff to listen to: Melvins, Boris, Khanate, Sunn O))), Sleep, etc. I think I can honestly say MONARCH! blows a lot of them away. You have this howling sludge riffage, constantly creating tension that is released by the astounding screams of lead singer Emelie. I would put her up against any death or sludge metal howler out there. Just devastating, intense. The whole thing sounds like the audio recording of a gang rape-dismemberement. It doesn't let you come up for air, it just keeps hammering away at you, for pretty long periods of time (especially on Disc 2). The thickness and density of the feedback on this is just amazing. Lyrics are provided, but if you're wading through this insanely harrowing, feedback-drenched tarpit riffage, you don't need to know what she's screaming about. In this and many other respects, Emelie and this music reminds me of Eyehategod. If you say that you worship at the altar of HEAVY, you must own this. Press "Play," light a candle, and start planning out your killing spree. " |
