Iron Monkey announced new album ‘Spleen & Goad’ and shared ‘Misanthropizer’ music video

UK sludge trio IRON MONKEY return with their highly anticipated new album, Spleen & Goad, out April 5 on Relapse Records.

Watch IRON MONKEY‘s official video for their new song “Misanthropizer” on YouTube HERE and listen all streaming services HERE.

Pre-Order Spleen & Goad on LP/CD/Digital via Relapse.com HERE.

On Spleen & Goad, the legendary band are as uncompromising as ever, churning out some of the most gritty sounding sludge doom in their 25 + year history. Dubbed a “doom sludge vanguard” by The Sludgelord, IRON MONKEY live up to their legacy, absolutely pummeling through each of the 9 tracks on their new album.

From the two-ton, heavier-than-anything-else riff opening “Concrete Shock“, IRON MONKEY show no signs of easing up; fuzzed out guitars crash against pulse-pounding drums, set against vicious, misanthropic snarls and barks. Elsewhere, tracks like the aptly titled “Rat Flag” kicks the band into high gear with palpable fury and malaise.

Recorded in their native Nottingham, Spleen & Goad was mastered stateside by Brad Boatright at Audiosiege.

SPLEEN & GOAD TRACKLIST:

1. Misanthropizer
2. Concrete Shock
3. C.S.P.
4. Off Switch
5. Rat Flag
6. Lead Transfusion
7. Exlexed
8. The Gurges
9. O.D. Rose

Iron Monkey was formed in the year 1994AD in the city of Nottingham, England. The original members were J.P. Morrow, J. Rushby, D. Dalziel, S. Watson and J. Greaves. Iron Monkey released 6 tracks of raw sludge-core via the label Union Mill that were later re-released on Earache Records. During this period S. Watson was replaced by D. Berry.

1998 saw the release of the album Our Problem, widely regarded as a masterpiece of negative rock. This was succeeded by a split ep on Man’s Ruin Records with Church Of Misery from Japan. Iron Monkey destroyed itself sometime in 1999. Vocalist J. Morrow died from heart failure in June 2002. Rest In Noise..

The band reformed in the winter of 2016 with original members J. Rushby and S. Watson with the addition of the then Chaos UK drummer Brigga. As of 2023 Iron Monkey are back with a new line featuring founding member J. Rushby, D. Berry from the Our Problem sessions and ex-Widows drummer Z. Big