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Prolific Super Metal Force MONSTERWORKS will release new album Malignment October 2 on Eat Lead and Die Music. Opening track "Impending Doom" is streaming now below:
After over a decade producing material based on various existential themes, Malignment returns MONSTERWORKS to the storyline created for the metal space adventure concept albums Spacial Operations (2007) and Singularity (2009). Malignment serves as both a prequel and sequel where the strikeship Magma Maiden, having disappeared with her pilot Nate during the Blastnet offensive (a major event in the Singularity album), crash lands in the Eritrean mountains of a near-future Earth. Nate is mortally wounded and his only hope of survival is to be fused with the ship’s A.I.. The procedure is successful but permanently affects the young man’s perception of reality. Now alone and with no means of return to his friends and family, two hundred years before his own birth, Nate must find a way to subsist in the world; while attempting to keep his origins, technology and capabilities hidden.
Vocalist/Guitarist Jon says: "This album will seem like a long time coming, since the band had been releasing something every year like clockwork for quite a while. We missed 2019 - sorry! Or did we? Anyway, it feels good to be back, and to take the Spacial Operations story further and to a conclusion of sorts."
Malignment was recorded over a two-year period in various studios and bunkers; finally pieced together, mixed and mastered by Damian Herring (Horrendous, Blood Incantation) May-July 2020 (subterraneanwatchtower).
Front cover artwork excellently imagined by All4Band.com.
Available as a 24-bit download and gatefold CD (mini-LP format) with 8-page lyric booklet from monsterworks.bandcamp.com/album/malignment. While waiting for release day, check out Spacial Operations and Singularity on Bandcamp to get up to light speed with the story (yeah, good luck with working that out!).
Track Listing:
1 Impending Doom
2 Pre-Emptive Strike
3 Harness the Engine
4 Post Everything
5 Ice and Awe
6 Contemplating Godhood
7 Eye of Darkness
8 Golden Age
Pre-order:
monsterworks.bandcamp.com/album/malignment
Influences:
Judas Priest, Iron Maiden, Black Sabbath, AC/DC, Pantera
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Jon - Guitars/Vocals
Hugo - Bass
James - Drums
Marcus - Guitars
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The musical beginnings of Monsterworks took form in the early 1990s from the distorted dreams of Jon and Jared, two high school buddies with a mutual love of a vast array of metal. Then at University Jon met Ian who had a likewise broad metal mind. Eventually these three kindred spirits would all meet in a community-run studio in Palmerston North, New Zealand, to record a first track penned by Ian called “Cascading Past”, later re-recorded for the first album.
The music evolved over time with a major leap occuring in 2003 when Jon and Ian restarted the band in London, UK. Initially quite thrash inspired with a progressive edge, the sound changed over the decade to incorporate orchestral elements and layered guitar arrangements; reaching a pinnacle of preposterousness with Singularity, released in 2009. After that, with a new lead guitarist in tow, the band stripped it back to basics (relatively speaking) and continues its quest for the perfect blend of classic heavy metal, prog, thrash, black, atmospheric and whatever else feels right in the moment.
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Dimensional Urgency - 2000
Rogue - 2002
M-Theory - 2003
The Precautionary Principle - 2006
Spacial Operations - 2007
Singularity - 2009
The God Album - 2011
Album of Man - 2013
Earth - 2013
Universe - 2014
Overhaul - 2014
The Existential Codex - 2015
Black Swan Annihilation - 2016
Alternātum - 2017
Scale and Probability - 2018
Malignment - 2020
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Thrash/Death/Heavy Metal
United-Kingdom
