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MONOLITH: Four Songs From Forthcoming Album Available For Streaming

November 3, 2009

Ontario, Canada, MONOLITH has posted four songs from its forthcoming debut album on the band's MySpace page. The CD, which is scheduled for a January 2010 release via Bombworks Records, was recorded at Batcave Studios with Adam Wathan and was mixed and mastered with Jordan Valeriote at Sundown Studio.

The track listing is as follows:

01. A Faithful Few (3:14)
02. Call Of Wisdom (3:23)
03. Across The Baltic (4:55)
04. Chokehold (3:29)
05. Break The Cycle (4:12)
06. Golgotha (5:34)
07. Second Birth (4:42)
08. Ultimatum (4:04)
09. Reject The Counterfeit (3:14)
10. Eternal Throne (5:33)
11. More Than Conquerors (3:54)
12. Monolith (5:06)

According to a press release, MONOLITH plays "a unique brand of orchestrally driven extreme metal that blends crushing metal riffs and brutal vocals with killer melodies, soaring clean vocals, and a heavy dose of synths and orchestral instrumentation."

Two of the band members, Colin Parrish (guitar, vocals) and Colin Nafziger (drums, vocals) were formerly members of Canadian band ASHER, who self-released a full-length called "Harmonious Thought" in 2006 that crossed extreme metal music with melodic power pop female vocals, with some death metal vocals scattered throughout. Imagine EVANESCENCE and FLYLEAF colliding with DIMMU BORGIR and KITTIE.

After the demise of ASHER, the two Colins went on to join forces with Simba Gallant to form MONOLITH, which stays solidly in the extreme metal realm (DIMMU BORGIR still comes to mind) but blends many other influences, providing for a very different and refreshing metal listening experience.

The band takes its name from the mysterious rectangular object in the Arthur C. Clarke classic sci-fi novel "2001", and much like the many surprises the monolith contained within, the band MONOLITH is ready to shock the metal scene with an impressive debut that is different, catchy, memorable, melodic, and brutal all at the same time.

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