Monolord release ‘It’s Neverending’ featuring vocals from Jörgen Sandström (Grave, ex-Entombed)

MONOLORD shared a final preview of their forthcoming album Neverending (May 29, Relapse Records) with the release of “It’s Neverending,” featuring guest vocalist Jörgen Sandström of Grave, formerly of Entombed.

“I did the growling on the demo, but it took me forever to record,” vocalist/guitarist Thomas Jäger explains. “It was more like to illustrate the idea. But Jörgen’s voice is so powerful, and his performance on the song is really great.” The finished track is a deathly-doom epic. “When we got the vocals finally in place, I remember I just burst into laughter,” bassist Mika Häkki adds. “That was just my sincere reaction to how happy that end result made me. Jörgen must have opened some new portal of some kind with those screams!”

To create Neverending, Monolord decamped to Ashland, Oregon to record with legendary producer/engineer Sylvia Massy (Tool, System of a Down, Johnny Cash). The collaboration began when Massy asked vocalist/guitarist Thomas Jäger to send everything the band had ever written. “She asked me to send her everything we had—not just songs written for the album, but every stray riff and idea,” he says. “I even sent her stuff I’d written ten years ago. She listened to all of it and sent us a list of what she wanted to work on.” The band rehearsed 12 songs, recorded 11, and ultimately selected eight for Neverending. The result captures a focused but expansive version of Monolord’s sound.

The band announced the new album with a video for “You Bastard,” which captured moments from their studio sessions with Massy. Revolver said the four-plus minute track is “glorious” and Consequence, who named it their “heavy song of the week,” described it as “a hefty and quite melodic piece of doom metal,” while simultaneously declaring Monolord the “Swedish titans of doom.” They offered a second preview with the recently released song “Oozing Wound,” which MetalSucks noted is “a major change for the band, as it’s the first time they’ve tuned wayyy down for maximum heavy.” 

Album pre-orders, including multiple limited-edition vinyl variants, CD and cassette, as well as digital pre-saves, are available here. 

Neverending tracklisting:

1. Iodine
2. You Bastard
3. Inside A Collider
4. Crystal Bridge
5. Oozing Wound
6. The Masque
7. Invisible
8. It’s Neverending *

*Features vocals by Jörgen Sandström (ex-Entombed, also of Grave and Firespawn)

European tour dates:
May 28  Malmö, SE  Plan B
May 29  Stockholm, SE  Slaktkyrkan
May 30  Gothenburg, SE  Monument
July 30  Ghimbav, RO  Rockstadt Extreme Festival
August 7  Kortrijk, BE  Alcatraz Festival
October 6  Hamburg, DE  Bahnhof Pauli
October 7  Haarlem, NL  Patronaat
October 8  Eindhoven, NL  Effenaar
October 9  Sint-Niklaas, BE  De Casino
October 10  Paris, FR  La Maroquinerie
October 11  Nantes, FR  Le Ferrailleur
October 12  Toulouse, FR  Le Rex
October 13  Lyon, FR  Jack Jack
October 14  Aarau, CH  KIFF
October 15  Munich, DE  Backstage
October 16  Osnabrück, DE  Bastard Club
October 17  Cologne, DE  Gebäude 9
November 4  Copenhagen, DK  Stengade
November 5  Berlin, DE  Columbia Theater
November 6  Dresden, DE  Beatpol
November 7  Warsaw, PL  Hydrozagadka
November 8  Krakow, PL Hype Park
November 9  Brno, CZ  Kabinet Múz
November 10  Budapest, HU  Dürer Kert
November 11  Vienna, AT  Arena
November 12  Zagreb, HR  Vintage Industrial Bar
November 13  Milan, IT  Legend
November 14  Bologna, IT  FreakOut
November 15  Karlsruhe, DE  P8

Per Wiberg (ex-Opeth, Spiritual Beggars etc.) will join the band on guitar as a fourth member on stage live.

Few modern doom bands balance sheer weight and melody like Monolord. Formed in Gothenburg in 2013, the band—guitarist/vocalist Thomas Jäger, drummer Esben Willems, and bassist Mika Häkki—quickly rose to the forefront of modern doom with a run of globally praised albums and relentless touring across Europe, North America, South America, and major festivals like Hellfest, Desertfest, Psycho Las Vegas and Roadburn.

Their records, Empress Rising (2014), Vænir (2015), Rust (2017), No Comfort (2019), and Your Time To Shine (2021), cemented their reputation for blending crushing fuzz with melodic undercurrents and immersive repetition. Now one of heavy music’s most consistent and beloved bands, Monolord are gearing up for their next chapter with Neverending—produced by legendary engineer Sylvia Massy and released via Relapse Records.