MONARCH Sabbat Noir LP

MONARCH Sabbat Noir LP

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(Heathen Skulls)
*** This is a new and unplayed item, direct from the CRUCIAL BLAST shop. ***

DESCRIPTION FROM CRUCIAL BLAST:
lso available in a super limited (only 400 pressed) vinyl edition, packaged in a similar reflective stock as the cd digipack version...
The newest album from France's drone-sludge masters Monarch is presented here as a single unbroken track on the cd version of Sabbat Noir, and it's a massive yawning abyss of low end dread and slow motion heaviness that seems to drift even further into stasis than even their last release Mer Morte, which was itself pretty unyeilding. This thirty minute track is the band's most formless and abstracted slab of glacial black crush so far, and fans of their last few forays into extreme tarpit ambience will love it. Plus, Sabbat Noir is notable for being the band's first recording with their new drummer in tow, Robert Macmanus, who some of you might know from his work in Grey Daturas.
We got to see Monarch perform this track in it's entireity when they played in Baltimore on their recent East Coast tour with Bloody Panda, and man, were we flattened. The half hour wave of lugubrious amplifier sludge that they carved out seemed to suck all of the oxygen out of the room, and stop time dead in it's tracks. On disc, "Sabbat Noir" sounds even more spacious. The band kicks it off with a thick, whorling cloud of thrumming low end purr and cymbal hiss that stretches out in all directions, the heavy, throbbing rumble of distorted bass surging slowly underneath, the feedback growling steadily as it oozes out of the overdriven speakers and off of the molten guitars, a dense, seething dronescape of subterranean rumbling. Then, a few minutes in, the drums and guitars come together and cave in suddenly with a single massive chord that drives down through the oceanic amp hum and hiss, and just hangs there, the crushing fragments of doom-riffage hovering over the widely spaced apart bomb-blasts of the drums, drifting like black aural tar and seemingly devoid of forward momentum. It's almost totally ambient over the first half, the band surging back up through the droning guitars and sudden percussive eruptions, tense chords held and suspended in mid-motion. It's a while before Emilie finally comes in with her spectral vocals, her eerie cry drifting in over the massive drone, her voices transformed into a strange choral wordless keening through a bank of effects pedals and signal fuckery that shoots her delicate moans and ghastly screams high above the monstrous droning sludge, and at times her layered vocals makes this sound weirdly Arvo Part-ish. About halfway through, the band lurches into a semblance of a saurian groove with this huge stumbling doom riff and pounding drums that only lasts for a minute before the sound goes toppling over the edge into a sprawl of spare, sparse black drift. This stretch of rumbling drone goes on for a while, and builds slowly into something more forceful and intense, the guitars re-emerging as a massive angular riff, the vocals rising closer to the surface, until this finally congeals into a crushing doom dirge that crawls ever so slowly, monolithic and massive and utterly wracked with misery and wretchedness, gradually winding down and casting off it's form until the band finally melts back into a cloud of shapeless, lightless amp drift.
As they did with Mer Morte, Monarch capture the sound of entropy here, the decay of time, wrapping you in layers of otherworldly ghost-like vocals, cthonic ambience, and low end crush that coagulates like black blood. Any fans of their previous releases are going to dig this, and the visual presentation for Sabbat Noir is one their best yet, the disc packaged in a high-gloss jacket with abstract, shadowy cover art that reveals Emilie's face on the back, streaked with black paint. Released in a limited edition of five hundred copies. © CRUCIAL BLAST
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