MONOLITHE - Black Hole District 2-LP (Transparent Blue Vinyl) (Pre-order)

Ships around 10th of November 2024

Comes as a beautiful gatefold 2-LP limited to 100 copies on transparent blue vinyl with added cover artwork limited to this edition.

Parisian Progressive Doom Metal outfit Monolithe returns with “Black Hole District”, a tech noir styled story!

Album concept: Black Hole District is a story in a Tech-Noir style, inspired by Blade Runner, but also Dark City, Matrix, Ghost in The Shell, as well as “hard boiled” literature. The narrator lives in a decaying city, in a dystopian future.

The moon has left its orbit and is coming dangerously close to Earth, causing increasingly violent cataclysms (earthquakes, tsunamis, etc.).

Humans now live at night because it is too hot during daytime.

The Music: Black Hole District is part of the band’s evolutionary logic since their beginnings: progression in continuity.

If Monolithe’s musical style remains identifiable, new influences and musical desires enrich each new album.

This is the case with BHD, which drew on the aesthetics of the 1970s and 1980s, especially in terms of synthesizers, in particular with the use of the famous CS-80 synth popularized by Vangelis, and the appeal of soundtracks of science fiction films.

The album is also designed as a movie would be, with a scenario, an atmosphere, a central character whose train of thoughts is provided to the listener through
narrations in a “hard boiled” detective style.

Eager to offer original music, Monolithe does not hesitate to break the rules of its primary genre, Doom Metal, while preserving its substantial marrow and roots.

• “Black Hole District” is the band’s 10th full-length album
• Monolithe has played major festivals (Hellfest, Brutal Assault, Metaldays and more) and headlined niche festivals such as Dutch Doom Days
• Monolithe toured in Europe, in Japan and even played two shows in Dubai

For fans of: Ahab, Isole, Shape of Despair, Tool