MONO ANNOUNCE NEW ALBUM REQUIEM FOR HELL
NEW FIVE SONG FULL LENGTH DUE OCTOBER 14, 2016 ON TEMPORARY RESIDENCE LTD
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MONO are a band driven by intangible conflicts. Their albums have found inspiration in the inescapable coexistence of love and loss, faith and hopelessness, light and darkness. Fittingly, their new album,Requiem For Hell, incorporates all of those conflicts into the one universal inevitability in life: birth, and death.
Requiem For Hell finds MONO returning to longtime friend and collaborator, Steve Albini. After MONO and Albini's band, Shellac, toured Japan together last year, they realized how much they missed the (often wordless) creative dialogue they shared during the making of many of their most memorable albums - beginning with 2004's Walking Cloud and Deep Red Sky... and culminating with 2009's Hymn To The Immortal Wind. The rebirth of the Albini collaboration for Requiem For Hell also coincided with the birth of a close friend's first child, whose actual in utero heartbeat serves as the foundation for the aptly named "Ely's Heartbeat." For MONO, it all felt so right, so inevitable.
Requiem For Hell is undeniably heavier and scarier than most of MONO's output to this point - hear the dizzying 18-minute title track for example - but it also carries some of their most sublime moments. This dichotomy is how the band's obsession with conflict has manifested itself into one of underground music's simultaneously quietest and loudest catalogs.
REQUIEM FOR HELL Track Listing
1. Death In Rebirth
2. Stellar
3. Requiem For Hell
4. Ely's Heartbeat
5. The Last Scene
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