French dark/progressive/doom metal band Monolithe has released a new single, "On The Run To Nowhere". The track is taken from the upcoming album entitled Black Hole District, which will be released via Hammerheart Records on 15 November. Monolithe's "On the Run To Nowhere" is a synth-driven, progressive doom metal journey through a dystopian city where a fugitive android races against a crumbling world.
The album Black Hole District is a story in a tech-noir style, inspired by Blade Runner, but also Dark City, Matrix, Ghost in The Shell, as well as "hard boiled" literature. The narrator lives in a decaying city, in a dystopian future. The moon has left its orbit and is coming dangerously close to Earth, causing increasingly violent cataclysms (earthquakes, tsunamis, etc.). Humans now live at night because it is too hot during the daytime. This narrator is disturbed by recurring dreams in which a woman with long black hair speaks to him. However, he doesn't remember who she is. He decides to investigate to find her. He ends up reaching a forbidden part of the city, called "Black Hole District". He enters a building which is actually an android factory. He then realizes that the faces of the inert and aligned androids being manufactured are all the same... And identical to his own. His break-in causes an alarm during which he, through the confusion, sees the woman of his dreams among the employees. He flees and tries to leave the city, pursued by a militia charged with "removing" him; Because androids that have become "sentient" and can think for themselves are considered defective and dangerous. As he reaches the city limits, he gets fatally shot. At the same time, the city begins to disintegrate, due to the Moon's increasing proximity.
Black Hole District is part of the band's evolutionary logic since their beginnings: progression in continuity. If Monolithe's musical style remains identifiable, new influences and musical desires enrich each new album. Listen now to the epic "On The Run To Nowhere" and stay tuned for more. Link
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