monotheism - Mantra (2025)

Three masked individuals from a far away country of South Korea bring another near-divine (and very short) album to my speakers. 7 years (!) after their last EP (also mentioned in here), they come back with this trance-inducing, spiritual and mind-blowingly noisy release that is entitled Mantra but also IS a mantra at the same time.

"We play the resonance of the divine. Three waves become one mantra", they state and they follow by explaining the role of each of the three tracks on the EP. The noisy guitar sounds first let us connect with the divine resonance, then find the origins of all sounds and finally get lost within the sound itself. The aggressive-sounding guitars are most certainly NOT what one would imagine when reading a description like this, but I can assure you that the flow is there and it can take anyone with it towards the sonic awakening.

Mantra costs 5 USD.

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Country: South Korea

Genre: noisssssy post-rock

Monotheism - Reveal (2019)

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Monotheism - Reveal (2019) EN

It's not MONO although geographically and musically speaking it's not far. Monotheism is a trio hailing from South Korea that play exceptionally guitar and impressive post-rock. As they do on the album released in the final days of the last year and called Reveal.

Their music is supposed to "expresses a special mood which indicates one’s spiritual existence in between light and darkness". To do that, the musicians use mostly whining, and wheezing guitars generating an exceptionally raw noise. Especially in Infinite Wave but to be honest each of their tracks is a huge dose of adrenaline in the post-rock but also heavy-metal/doom-metal/psychedelic style. It sounds probably the best in There Was Nothing in Heaven, perhaps because it has the most post-rock-like composition that keeps the track together. In any case - huge plus.

Reveal costs 7.50 USD.

Check: There Was Nothing in Heaven

Country: South Korea 

Genre: raw guitar post-rock

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Monotheism - Reveal (2019) PL

To nie MONO, chociaż i geograficznie i muzycznie nie tak daleko. Monotheism to trio z Korei Południowej grające nadzwyczaj gitarowy i efektownych post-rock. Tak jak na wydanej w ostatnich dniach zeszłego roku płycie Reveal.

Ich muzyka ma za zadanie "oddać konkretny nastrój wskazujący na duchową egzystencję człowieka pomiędzy światłem a ciemnością". W tym celu muzycy posługują się głównie zawodzącymi, rzężącymi i generującymi bardzo surowy hałas gitarami.  Zwłaszcza w Infinite Wave, ale tak naprawdę każdy ich kawałek to potężna doza adrenaliny w post-rockowym, ale też heavy-metalowym/doom-metalowym/psychodelicznym stylu. Najlepiej ta mieszanina brzmi w There Was Nothing in Heaven, ale może dlatego, ze ten kawałek ma najbardziej post-rockową, spajającą go w całość kompozycję. W każdym razie - na duży plus.

Reveal kosztuje 28 złotych (7,50 USD).

Sprawdź: There Was Nothing in Heaven

Kraj: Korea Południowa

Szufladka: raw guitar post-rock

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