The Monolith Deathcult marches again.
Created in 2002 under the name of Monolith, the Dutch band offers today V3 – Vernedering: Connect the Goddamn Dots, its eighth album (including one under its former name), that will end the tryptic began in 2017. Robin Kok (vocals/bass, Witchcult 71), Carsten Altena (guitar/keyboards, ex-Izegrim) and Michiel Dekker (guitar/samples, Witchcult 71) come to finish the job.
Helped by Frank Schilperoort (Shining, The Scarlet Claw, ex-Grand Supreme Blood Court), their live drummer, the band begins with Infowars, a short introduction that literally makes fun of them. But once the sample is over, Connect the Goddamn Dots comes to crush us according to the rules. A raw groove melts to an impressive Death Metal with ravaging Industrial influences, then the singer’s wild roars come to create a brutal contrast with Electro elements. Whether it is on rhythm or leads, everything is done to bring some futuristic blackness to this unstoppable war machine that continues its way with Gone Sour, Doomed. Speed dubbed by a great fix of technicality as well as this mix between brutality and modernity turns to be very effective, while offering a majesting and hooking sound, like on the impressive Vernedering. The band’s furor takes shape as fast riffs, but also an oppressive warlike ambience, while musicians crush us with a thick rhythmic.
Blood Libels comes to ease the game with a new sample criticizing the band. A dissonant rhythmic full of epic leads and majestic samples comes to create a seizing contrast with the usual brutality, that comes back after the worrying introduction of The White Silence. The sound is crushing and dark, letting place to some cybernetic voices and samples before screams surface again. Bass plays an important role in this composition, that leads us to the heady They Drew First Blood. Whether the introduction is extremely catchy, violence will quickly come back to the band’s thick riffs, surmounted by astonishing orchestrations. The ambience brutally changes, offering a raw groove, then the album ends with L’Ouverture de Morose, a long track that offers a very seizing and airy instrumental, then a final sample letting us think to a radio show, that accompanied us all along this hymn to destruction.
The band’s style is unique, and it allows The Monolith Deathcult to crush everything they want on their path. V3 – Vernedering: Connect the Goddamn Dots is a seizing, strange and unhealthy album, but it is also a super powerful and majestic one, with some parts of pure violence.
90/100
