Monotone Monk are a solo project from Spain that plays a mixture of dark ambient, drone, post industrial and ritual and this is a review of his 2024 album "Withering Of Reality's Presence" which was released by Ominous Sounds.
Dark ambient synths start off the album along with some drones a few seconds later and a great portion of the tracks are also very long and epic in length. At times the music also captures the atmosphere of a horror movie soundtrack and on some of the tracks the recording goes into more of a ritualistic direction.
A lot of the tracks also stick to more of an instrumental direction while the album also has its experimental moments. Industrial style beats are also added into certain sections of the recording, when voices are added into the background they also enhance the occult atmosphere o the music as well as some of music also bringing in the more evil and atmospheric side of black metal without the heavier sections.
Monotone Monk plays a musical style that takes dark ambient, drone, experimental, post industrial and ritual and mixes them together to create a sound of his own. The production sounds very dark while the song themes are rooted in esotericism and desolation with some inspiration from the writings of Julius Evola and the paintings of Ferri.
In my opinion Montone Monk is a very great sounding mixture of dark ambient, drone, experimental, post industrial and ritual and if you are a fan of those musical genres, you should check out this solo project. RECOMMENDED TRACKS INCLUDE "Traversing Sensory Deserts" "Mirrors And Nooses" and "Flesh Departure". 8 out of 10.
https://ominousounds.bandcamp.com/album/withering-of-realitys-presence
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