Monolord - Rust (2017) - Third album, third blast

For the ingenuous readers here`s a warning: the time for you to know this Swedish band has passed a long time ago, seriously, without further delays look for any album of them. You actually could start with Rust, the third full-length, I guarantee you'll get more from song than she does from you.

It would do no good to make the finest album cover of the year if the song did not match in quality, but, thanks God, Monolord took care of every aspect in "Rust". How to think bad of an album that opens with a punch in the face like Where Death Meets The Sea. With a burst riff attached to terrifying percussion the music creates textured consistency and alternates calmer moments with the thunderous footprint of doom. Thomas Jäger's vocals propel the sound to the psychedelic-stoner side, especially with this stripped-down style of production. On some tracks the waves are slow but full of power, bulky, as in the song Dear Lucifer and the fabulous instrumental Wormland. A hint of keyboard shows up in the song Rust, but only to create a retro atmosphere that falls to the weight of the doom that emerges. To close the album nothing better than the submergible 15 minutes of At Niceae.

Monolord created not a heavy album, but a vibrant energy under the thud of doom to pulsate in the bones of the listener. The melodic vocal adds a narcotic effect creating the uniqueness we long for when we hear a new album. I do not remember hearing anything better than that in 2017.

TrackList
1.Where Death Meets the Sea 05:46
2.Dear Lucifer 08:41
3.Rust 05:39
4.Wormland 06:05
5.Forgotten Lands 12:44
6.At Niceae 15:35

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