Monarch!

Extreme doomsters’ pieces are anything but quiet

Turbulent times produce turbulent music, and the last decade of decadence and destruction has certainly visited upon us some of the most crushing, despondent and downright despairing über-doom since Khanate first strangled our will to live and pounded our senses into dust. Sludge and drone have slowly but surely permeated doom in its entirety, and in the painful process become the mediums of the moment. And when France—a nation more usually associated with culture and civility—is getting in on the game, you know that drone has truly ascended the throne. Hailing from the Basque Country in the far south of France, Monarch! ply a very un-Gallic mass of filth-ridden distortion and feedback pierced by agonizing howls and tortured screams, the latter from the mouth of vocalist Emilie Bresson, a creature seemingly too delicate to emit such fearful noises.

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