30,000 MONKIES ANNOUNCE THE RELEASE OF THE NEW LP – HONESTY INTEGRITY FRIENDSHIP PASSION |
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| “The four songs on the half-hour release offer pummel, abrasion, and chug.” – The Obelisk |
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| Belgian experimental metal band, 30,000 Monkies have consistently been unleashing cathartic noise avalanches in live venues across Europe. Consouling Sounds is happy to announce the upcoming LP from Beringen-based collective – HONESTY INTEGRITY FRIENDSHIP PASSION. Commenting on the nature or writing and concepts, Michiel De Naegel admits: “It might seem like a pre-planned concept album, but it really isn’t. The title comes from Lil B’s lecture that took place in New York city in 2012” – while the rap-artist was referring to a positivistic idea, talking about kindness, Lil B had summed up the concept with four words only: honesty, integrity, friendship and passion. |
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| Guitarist/vocalist, Ruben Savelkoul explains the value of the words saying: “This sequence of words has been living in our minds since then. We kept thinking about doing something with it and finally decided to write the music to fit these words. In the end we wrote a song for each individual word, sonically and thematically inspired by it”. |
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| Both members stress – despite the emotional quality of Lil B’s worldview, the songs are not necessarily representations of it. On HONESTY INTEGRITY FRIENDSHIP PASSION, 30,000 Monkies celebrates some core human values the only way they know how: with a banquet of festive sludge metal,droning guitars and an ambient palate cleanser. |
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- “The Belgian four-piece have outdone themselves with some seriously sludgy, belligerent doom that occasionally borders on the sadistic in its tension” – CRACK Magazine
- “This shit is weird as fuck. Punchy, experimental, blackened, noisy, etc. It’s the experimentation here which makes the sale” – Metal Hammer
- “Band’s sludgy stoner/noise rock is catchy, hard hitting and pretty damn interesting” – Invisible Oranges
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| Download press-shots of 30,000 Monkies here. |
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| For the past years, 30,000 Monkies have been stalwarts of the Belgian noise rock scene. ‘Somewhere Over The Painbow’ to ‘Are Forever’, is stuffed with pounds of suave sludge and riffs that sound like a zillion champagne corks popping all at once. HONESTY INTEGRITY FRIENDSHIP PASSION continues the tradition of making every next release better and better. Loud and luxurious, sticking out like a stockbroker in corpse paint, it became the newest mark in the history of 30,000 Monkies (who send you their greetings from a top the twisted metallic throne of Rock). |
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