One of the best live band currently touring !
.."Not Yet" to be released on January 25th, 2011...
Two 7-inches from the sessions, recorded by Steve Albini, came out in 2010 on special limited edition vinyl with artwork hand-drawn by Haggai
........ "Fun Fun Fun/Try Try Try" (Vinyl Only) - June 2010
...... Sold Out.........."Never Died Before/Lazy Boy" - April 2010.... .. ........Order / Download.. / ..iTunes............
"If there was a spectrum on which every shade of chaos was ranked hierarchically, you would have to peg a Monotonix show somewhere to the left of total, complete and utter mayhem. Maybe you could call it demented pandemonium. Supposedly they are banned from half the live venues in Israel, at one place because a couple became so aroused that the man started to give his girlfriend oral sex. At a Tennessee show on their current tour, a man is said to have purposely set himself on fire. I saw them first in an enclosed-on-three-sides backyard at a funky east Austin venue called the Austin Typewriter Museum. You could smell the band before you could see ‘em – as soon as their van doors opened a wave of body odor permeated the entire yard. The drummer, a dead ringer for Borat with a gold dookie chain around his neck, proceeded to set up his badly battered, minimal kit in the dusty ground in front of the stage. Yonatan Gat, the guitarist, looks like Bob Dylan circa the Newport Folk Festival, plugged in his Fender (literally held together with electrical tape) to an amp, which was also on the ground in front of the stage. And that was it for set-up. And then it gets weird. There are absolutely no barriers between crowd and band. Singer Ami Shalev climbs whatever structures or other high vantage points are in the vicinity – could be a building or a tree, whatever – and hollers words in either English or Hebrew or maybe just primal screams. Or maybe he’s rolling around in the dirt, keeping time on the bass drum with his forehead. Or maybe he’s flying around in the crowd, knocking beers over or head-butting more garbage cans or blowing snot out of his nose. And the thing about it is, the pandemonium never ceases, never so much as lets up for a second, throughout. Often the show closes with the crowd spontaneously picking up the bass drum, with the drummer perched on top of it, still banging away on his remaining kit, and carrying him over their heads to the van. These guys did six of these shows in one day on Saturday. They have to be simultaneously the most physically fit and mentally deranged band I have ever seen, and already I have seen them three times. these shows are something beyond chaos. In fact, they are the perfect band for our time, the soundtrack and visual representation of a world that seems to be slipping out of control."
- ..John Lomax, Houston Press.. ....
-.... .. "Most exciting live band in rock'n'roll" - ..Spin......
- "Unlike anything you've ever witnessed." - ..Washington Post......
- "Unforgettable and thrilling chaos." - ..Now Toronto...... "You hit my girlfriend in the head with a trash can, and as much as i love her, you were still the best fucking band i've seen in ages. don't stay away from raleigh long, ok?" - .."Siobhan", Raliegh NC........
They recently did 2 shows with Faith no More in LA and Chile!
GOUDRON is a french noise core duo, with guys from Elysium, with guitar metal riffs, technical drum parts, think to Keelhaul or Botch for the music.
www.myspace.com/goudron666
"Goudron : ce groupe a, à priori, tout pour me plaire, vu le culte que je vous à cette substance. J’aime en recouvrir mes poumons quotidiennement et je ne m’imagine pas vivre dans un lieu où je ne pourrai pas au moins passer une demi-heure à la sentir sous mes pompes. M’en tartiner un peu les oreilles semble être alors la continuité la plus logique.
Mais la première chose à laquelle je pense en écoutant ce disque, ce n’est pas une belle clope bien roulée en train de se consumer en passant par mes lèvres, c’est à Keelhaul. Ecrasement de façade similaire, riffs torturés du même acabit et même capacité à faire rebondir ensemble des riffs qui semblent incompatibles. Et en concert, c’est exactement le même sentiment qui m’a sauté à la gueule. Mais là où Keelhaul sature réellement l’espace, goudron n’hésite pas à caler quelques riffs plus directs entre deux parties en 6,5/4, cela ajouté à la formule duo, permet de respirer un peu plus d’air enfumé... à la manière d’un Craw ?
Si Bil* avait eu ce disque, j’ai peu de doute sur le fait qu’il ait commencé sa chronique par YEAH, FUCK YEAH, YEAH, FUCK, continué en jurant comme un damné en utilisant des phrases du genre “fucking tight“ durant 4 paragraphes de 30 lignes pour finir par vous inciter à tout de suite faire fondre votre compte bancaire pour vous procurer ce disque, tellement je l’imagine se régaler à se torturer la nuque sur les riffs labyrinthiques pondus par le duo. En ce qui me concerne le métal mathématique version Bac +8, c’est pas trop mon créneau (j’ai eu un Bac L et j’ai fini en fac de lettres, si ça t’intéresse) mais force est de constater que des disques et des groupes de cet acabit dans le genre sont loin d’être légion (et je ne limiterai pas ça à une foutue zone géographique). Les défauts ? La prod’ aurait peut-être mérité un son encore plus ample en version mammouth, mais en pondant ça en deux jours, les studios Amanita ont tout de même fait un super boulot.
Le vrai défaut, ce sera cette pochette dont il faudra absolument faire abstraction, sa laideur étant inversement proportionnelle à la qualité de ce disque.
Bohumil S. Thompson."
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