WDR Rockpalast YouTube channel published the official livestream for Monolord live at Freak Valley Festival 2024. Watch the full performance through the YouTube player below:
Guitar riffs that weigh tons, the courage to be monotonous and a sound that, with trance-like vocals, mostly aims in one direction: deep into the pit of your stomach. For Monolord, hecticness is not a relevant category. The band from Sweden has an eternity for their journey towards infinity with their doom metal.
The discovery of slowness is not an issue for this band. Because they have long since perfected the project of “slowing down”. Founded in 2013 in Gothenburg, Monolord have completely lost all sense of calm in their version of doom metal. Hecticness is not a relevant category for the Swedish trio. On the other hand, guitar riffs that weigh tons and the courage to embrace monotony are important to them.
When Monolord travel towards infinity with their sound, the trance-like vocals of Thomas V. Jäger usually aim deep into the pit of your stomach. And with a smasher like “Empress Rising”, the trio celebrates a completely different kind of tension arc. It doesn’t happen all that often, but it does happen: that you hear a riff for 13 minutes. Over and over again, over and over again. The doom nobility doesn’t live exclusively in Gothenburg. But thanks to Monolord, they have an important branch there.
Lineup:
Thomas Jäger / Guitars and Vocals
Esben Willems / Drums
Mika Häkki / /Bass