Norwegian prog/post-metal collective Monograf announce new album and share new single

If Scandinavian noir had a post-apocalyptic soundtrack, it would sound like MONOGRAF. The Norwegian collective announced their second full-length album, Occultation, due out on November 14 via Overhead Productions and unveiled its opening track “The Prophet”.

Due later this year, Occultation finds MONOGRAF conjuring a soundscape that threads the brooding intensity of Saor and Godspeed You! Black Emperor with the haunting melancholy of Scandinavian folk instruments like the nykkelharpa and fiddle. The result is music as vast and desolate as the Nordic landscape itself, dark, cinematic, and hauntingly beautiful.

At the center of MONOGRAF is composer Erik Aanonsen, whose unique background spans the black metal underground (as a former member of Antestor), collaborations with acclaimed folk singer Pål Moddi, and a degree in film scoring. His breadth of vision shapes a sound that straddles heaviness, melancholy, and cinematic drama.

Mixed by Rhys Marsh at Autumnsongs Recording Studio and mastered by Jeff Mortimer at JM Studios in London, Occultation resonates with stark clarity and gravity. On stage, MONOGRAF have already proven their intensity with performances at Brainstorm Festival (NL) and as support for Faroese doom collective Hamferd and more live shows are to come.

With Occultation, MONOGRAF reflect the darkness of our times. A sound neither strictly post-rock, metal, nor folk, but something unsettlingly alive in the space between.