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Mono announce new album, trailer inside

18/7/2016

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THE METAL DECK, playing card games from hell...
Great new for all fans of Japanese post-rock legends Mono. The quartet has just revealed a trailer for their new album, along with a bunch of album details. Unlike their previous album, The Last Dawn / Rays of Darkness- which re-visited much of their earlier sound - MONO once again introduce strings, showing further dynamics and a wider range of colour in their sounds.  "Requiem For Hell" will be out on October 14, 2016 via Pelagic Records in Europe.

Written entirely by guitarist Takaakira ‘Taka’ Goto, the five songs that comprise Requiem For Hell perfectly portray the signature orchestration- like range and dynamics of MONO. Goto comments on the new record: “This album is a series of songs from a flood of inspirations in 2015. After writing song after song and giving them titles, we stumbled upon Dante’s Divine Comedy and the story struck a chord with us. Divine Comedy’s story about travelling down to Hell, through to purgatory, then from Heaven to reality, turned out to be the same theme. This is when we decided to use Gustave Dóre’s illustration from Divine Comedy’s last scene as the main cover."

The 2xLP vinyl version of Requiem For Hell shows an engraving, a curled up human foetus.

"Our long-time friend Jeremy (the owner of our American label Temporary Residence) recently had his first-born, named Ely", comments Goto. "Jeremy had been sending us photos and her heartbeats from long before she was born. When Ely was born, we decided to dedicate one of our songs to her, with hopes of her listening to it when she is grown up, and decided to use her heartbeats as an intro on Ely’s Heartbeat" Goto explains.

The album was produced, recorded and mixed by Steve Albini at Electrical Audio in Chicago, and mastered by Bob Weston. Albini has worked with band three times previously, and just last year, his band Shellac embarked upon their first tour of Japan in 23 years, co-headlining with MONO.

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Tracklist
1.    Death In Rebirth
2.    Stellar
3.    Requiem For Hell
4.    Ely’s Heartbeat
5.    The Last Scene

Pre-order:
CD: http://goo.gl/xaSFVh
LP: http://goo.gl/Ysfnki
LP + T-Shirt bundle: http://pelagic-records.com/?p=8756

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