LIMITED EDITION VINYL RELEASE! Swedish trio Monolord drop a limited 10'' EP, 2 new tracks; picking up where their 2015 album Vaenir left off. They kicked of their first ever North American headlining tour this week, two months across the US, with support from Beastmaker (Rise Above Records) and Sweat Lodge (Brutal Panda). Metal Sucks hailed Monolord's Vaenir as, "far and away one of my favorite doom releases of 2015 so far, possibly even of the past few years. There's just something about the way these guys construct riffs that sets them apart from the pack, and the production style they've chosen -- clear and concise, but still massively powerful and raw in tone -- perfectly underscores what they're doing." Noisey calls it, "a sludge-doom offering with guitars like chainsaws, bringing to mind Matt Pike's epic tone on The Art of Self-Defense. The massive, ten-ton brick of a record relies on a blues groove though, and not long-stroke, droning nonsense. Heavily treated melodic vocals bring to mind Ozzy during 'Planet Caravan,' and add to the mysticism and darkness surrounding the release. This is one massive record
