Requiem For Hell

by MONO

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J. Wright Reviews This is a pretty interesting one for MONO: less symphonic than many of their albums, and thus carries a heavier tone to it, but still indisputably neoclassical. The title track feels a lot like a sequel to "Com(?)" and is truly a titan of post-rock writing! That song also is the mid-point of the album, with the first two tracks having a subtle tension underneath everything, and the last two tracks feel much calmer, if a bit somber. Requiem for Hell may be MONO's most underrated album so far! Favorite track: Requiem For Hell.

katsumashi genuinely so gorgeous . i think the album cover is a depiction of the empyrean (aka the living place of god) from the divine comedy ? and i have always loved artworks like this that depict the unknowable. it adds SO much to this album. makes me feel like im searching for an audience with the universe itself or something Favorite track: Requiem For Hell.

Jeff Another amazing album. I’m never disappointed with anything they release. Of course I prefer some tracks over others, but I am really impressed with their discography. I love albums that I can listen to all the way through, no skips. This is definitely one. Favorite track: Ely's Heartbeat.

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1.	Death In Rebirth 08:05	buy track
2.	Stellar 04:58	buy track
3.	Requiem For Hell 17:48	buy track
4.	Ely's Heartbeat 08:27	buy track
5.	The Last Scene 06:43	buy track

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MONO are a band driven by intangible conflicts. Their albums have found inspiration in the inescapable coexistence
of love and loss, faith and hopelessness, light and darkness. Fittingly, their new album, Requiem For Hell, incorporates all of those conflicts into the one universal inevitability in life: Birth, and death.

Requiem For Hell finds MONO returning to longtime friend and collaborator, Steve Albini. After MONO and Albini's band, Shellac, toured Japan together last year, they realized how much they missed the (often wordless) creative dialogue they shared during the making of many of their most memorable albums – beginning with Walking Cloud and Deep Red Sky... (2004) and culminating with Hymn To Immortal Wind (2009). The rebirth of the Albini collaboration for Requiem For Hell also coincided with the birth of a close friend's first child, whose actual in utero heartbeat serves as the foundation for the aptly named "Ely's Heartbeat." For MONO, it all felt so right, so inevitable.

Requiem For Hell is undeniably heavier and scarier than most of MONO's output to this point – hear the dizzying 18- minute title track for example – but it also carries some of their most sublime moments. This dichotomy is how one band’s obsession with conflict has manifested itself into one of underground music's simultaneously quietest and loudest catalogs.

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released October 14, 2016

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