Monarch!

Hailing from the picturesque Northern Basque Country of France, MONARCH! unleash a slow motion avalanche of impossibly glacial, blackened sludge and hypnotic feedback, each song a series of epic tarpit riffage stretched out eternally over lumbering drums and the cavernous rumble of speaker cabinets. Over these yawning expanses of black void appears the demonic, throat-shredding shrieks and ghostly singing of Emilie, whose petite appearance belies one of the harshest throats in the underground Doom spectrum. Beyond heavy. MONARCH!'s mega-crawling ambient doom/drone/sludge follows in the grand tradition of fellow tarpit adventurers Melvins, Corrupted, Noothgrush, and Black Sabbath, and accompany their music with an iconoclastic design style that decorates their material with deceptively cute imagery drawing from the collective influence of Sanrio, Japanese animation, European graffiti, weirdo hardcore, and skateboard culture.


Discography:

2004: 'Advance Tape' (Tape) None
2005: 'Monarch' (2CD) Solitude
2006: 'Elysiüm Monarch Split' (Split CD) Throne/Amanita
2006: 'Speak Of The Sea' (LP)
2007: 'Dead Men Tell No Tales' (2CD) Crucial Blast
2007: 'Die Tonight' (LP) Throne Records