FNMC: MONOLITH

In the organizer's words:

Founded in 2010, MONOLITH quickly played clubs nationwide with a four-track demo in their luggage, including supporting Kadavar. Four years later, they released their internationally acclaimed first longplayer "Dystopia". Small and large fanzines as well as worldwide online reviews attested the band a more than successful debut. Further concerts followed, which also took the band to other European countries.

The second album "Mountain" was released in 2016, again followed by extensive feedback from home and abroad as well as a tour including festival gigs. The band has remained true to itself: charismatic vocals, raw guitars, crunchy bass, powerful drums. The sound is based on the hard rock of the 1960s/70s. Every song is recorded live in the studio, with only guitar solos and vocals recorded as overdubs.

This was also the case in 2023, when Monolith recorded their third and latest longplayer in three days at the renowned "Studio Nord" in Bremen. On "Horizon", the band once again shows other facets: while "Dystopia" was still quite classic stoner doom rock and "Mountain" was already an audible stylistic development, "Horizon" offers an even broader spectrum of musical influences. In addition to the familiar elements of retro hard rock, doom and stoner, the psychedelic component is more pronounced than ever before. The songwriting is also more complex and at the same time more "airy". A "British flavor" is unmistakable and the band surprises with a ballad.

The theme this time is the last expedition of the polar explorer John Franklin in the mid-19th century, which ended tragically with the death of all participants in the Arctic. The lyrics refer freely associated to the existential experiences of the travelers: their thirst for adventure, but also the dying; the suffering; the hope of still escaping the ice desert; the final resignation to surrender to fate...here & now LIVE at Friday Night Music Club #FNMC