Saturday, May 2, 2009

Monarch

Here's some piss poor custom van rock from Anytown USA. 1983's As Your Kingdom Falls draws inspiration from such FM greats as The Outlaws and Kansas but, unlike the highly awesome Ashbury, fails to truly rock or create an atmosphere of castles and wizards. This will most likely make you say, "I remember a time when Cosmic Hearse was the best blog on the planet and now the guy just lazily posts records he doesn't even like. I'm heading over to Metal Inquisition to read another hilarious screed on how ugly Dan Lilker is."

10 comments:

Nickthrone said...

thanks Aesop. HELLSHOCK and CRUDE were awesome tonight!

Wheel in the Sky said...

*KEEPS ON TURNING*

Bjørn Disgust said...

Hahaha! Well, at least the cover art is pretty sweet.

god said...

hey dude god here from sluggisha,i love your blog and have downloaded much from you and have had rock jack for a while i got more kids stuff to post too.thanks for following my blog and go get wax warriors my kids first tape it's even funnier,al yankovic parodies etc.you post the coolest shit .thanks,my kids like comments

Roger Camden said...

once you reach the top
the time has come
to alienate your audience

Adrian said...

For a minute I thought this post was going to be about the fantastic French funeral doom metal band Monarch.

Aesop said...

Nope, but they are great.

Philthy said...

That Solomon Kane cover art is pretty fukken rad, however.

kevin said...

sweet jesus, this is so goddamn corny. How can an album with such an awesome cover be so soft?

G.Robertson said...

Monarck was a bit ahead of its time recorded in a basement type studio, a lot could have been done with the music that wasn't. The RUSH inspired group was actually better live then recorded, I know, I sang lead for them. It was a kewl 10 years. We were an outdoor band and loved it that way sadly we went on to top 40 rock to make some more money in the clubs with a band called Phaze II we were very popular in the Atlanta area in the late 80's while everyone was doing that dico crap we were still rocking it out in the night clubs. Original hometown Newnan, Georgia. We had changed up on lead guitarist David Luckie with a guy who was very clever Mike. Hey, That's all we new to call the dude, lol ! He was good with that Strat though. It Was a sad day when we stopped all together just stopped, man. Wasn't kewl at all dude. Thanks for having that album out here, I thought it was pretty damn kewl, just to see it. I can get my hands on only about 10 today but thats the way it goes I guess.Thanks for a place to post !
G.Robertson