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TEI-090

The Mons
Axes: Bold As Fuck

formats: 12 inch, digital, CD
release date: February 2, 2024
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4-panel digipak, matte finish; duplicated and printed by Sooper Dooper, Madison, WI. Limited to 100 copies.

12″ red vinyl, matte finish; pressed and printed by Mobineko. Limited to 100 copies.

Tracklisting:

  1. Intro
  2. Iommi Campbell / Collective Unconscious
  3. Nobody From Nowhere
  4. Anhedonia Uber Alles
  5. Numb
  6. False Profit
  7. Cynical Apathy
  8. Sweet Meteor
  9. Hard No
  10. Terror Games
  11. Jesc
  12. Anthropocene
  13. Calling Occupants of Interplanetary Assholes
  14. Coffin Nail
  15. Septic System
  16. Outro
  17. Glorious Disaster [CD and Bandcamp Digital Bonus Track]
  18. Follow Your Leader [CD and Bandcamp Digital Bonus Track]
  19. Human Plague [CD and Bandcamp Digital Bonus Track]
  20. Whispercore [CD and Bandcamp Digital Bonus Track]
  21. Man-Made Monster [CD and Bandcamp Digital Bonus Track]
  22. Gotta Get Up [CD and Bandcamp Digital Bonus Track]
  23. Christmas [CD and Bandcamp Digital Bonus Track]
  24. Hymn 43 [CD and Bandcamp Digital Bonus Track]
  25. America [CD and Bandcamp Digital Bonus Track]

Tracks 1-16 Engineered and Mixed by Matthew Barnhart at Electrical Audio, Chicago

Tracks 17-21 Engineered and Mixed by Matthew Barnhart at Electrical Audio, Chicago. [Originally released on the Fastplants/The Mons split – Beercan Records 2021]

Tracks 22-25 Engineered and Mixed by Karl Eifrig at Dirty Basement, Riverside, IL

Mastered by Justin Perkins at Mystery Room Mastering
Illustration by Francisco Ramirez at Bureau of Print Research and Design
Layout by Martin Defatte for Guerrilla Digital

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Reviews

Paul Silver

“

They play a unique style of punk rock that’s part hardcore, part indie, part metal, part catchy pop, and part angular jazz. It all adds up to something you’ve never heard before but need in your life. Lyrics are dark, touching on the hopelessness of life, feelings of failure, the ills of society, and our apathy toward all of it. The songs are short aggressive blasts, wasting no time and cramming loads of musical and lyrical content into less than two minutes per song, on average.

” Paul Silver

Ty Stranglehold

“

The Mons are back with their third full-length record. I’m not the one to say if there’s a specific “Chicago sound” out there, but there are aspects of The Mons’ music that harkens to other denizens of their city. Apocalypse Hoboken similarities notwithstanding (they share members), the tight yet off-kilter riffs often stray into The Jesus Lizard territory. A good place to be if you can pull it off, and The Mons absolutely do. How the hell do songs that are so technical with so many parts get away with being one to two minutes long? It makes no sense, but I love it. Jarring and relentless are two key adjectives here. This is not for casual, background listening. You will be grabbed by the collar and shaken around a bit, and you will love every fucking minute of it. When it comes to doing heavy/fast, these guys are among the best going right now.

” Ty Stranglehold