Release
date: June
08th
2018.
Label: Burning
Wax Productions.
Format: CD/DD/Vinyl
Black
And Supersonic
– Tracklisting
1.
You're Gone
2.
Ultraviolet In The Clear Sky
3.
Satan Monday Bureau
4.
Interlude with Synths and Clean Guitars
5.
Here Comes The Hero
6.
Silly Gods
7.
So Fresh!
8.
Low
9.
Above The Doubts
10.
Empire Of Dirt
Members
Andrea
Marzoli - Vocals & Guitar
Riccardo
Cocetti - Drums
Max
Codeluppi - Lead Guitar
Enrico
Busi - Bass
Review
Black
And Supersonic is the new album from Monolith Grows!. A band that are
not afraid to rely on familiar sounds but injecting it with a more
cosmic spaced out feel. Lead vocalist Andrea is inspired by singers
from the Grunge Scene whilst the band play a heavy blend of Grunge,
Psych, Doom, Stoner and Spaced Out Rock.
Opening
track - You're Gone - starts very slowly but soon builds up to a
commanding heavy rhythm with the excellent vocals creating a heavy
grunge/stoner hybrid sound. The song does have an alternative rock
feel at times but the band manages to keep the whole mood firmly
within the Hard Rock/Stoner Rock spectrum.
Second
track - Ultraviolet In The Clear Sky - sounds eerie familiar to the
later sounds of Soundgarden. Though it's still a very good song in
its own right. The song has some very cool quiet ambient sounds
merged with the heavy psychedelic grunge riffs. The pounding drums
are the best part of this song.
Third
track - Satan Monday Bureau - has a more manic punk based energy and
this allows Monolith Grows! to become more confident with their
musical surroundings. This song features Joe Mora from House Of
Broken Promises. The album also becomes decidedly sinister and
doomier. This is where the album and the band start to stand on their
own convictions. The whole flow and feel of the album has a classic
rock approach but merged with a few modern day influences. I cannot
fault the albums production as Black And Supersonic sounds
brilliantly heavy throughout.
Other
good songs to check out on the album are: Interlude With Synths And
Clean Guitars, Here Comes The Hero, Silly Gods, Low and Empire Of
Dirt. The use of different psychedelic sounds is what made me enjoy
the album the most. As Monolith Grows! are not afraid to experiment
with their sound.
Monolith
Grows! show a true talent for writing detailed lyrics that matches
the some of the finely played progressive riffs heard through the
album. Maybe Monolith Grows! is a very hard band to define as they
veer off into so many different musical directions. Though that’s
one of the albums strengths. As most of the songs on the album have
their own distinctive sound.
Black
And Supersonic is a hugely entertaining and constantly engaging album
that should see Monolith Grows! reputation grow steadily within the
Doom/Stoner Rock community.
Words
by Steve Howe
Thanks
to Claire at Purple Sage PR for the promo. Black And Supersonic will
be available to buy on CD/DD/Vinyl via Burning Wax Productions from
June 8th 2018.
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