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These Monsters

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About These Monsters

These Monsters are a rock band from Leeds in the UK first formed in 2005.

With vintage amplifiers, big drums and high energy performances These Monsters deliver a huge sound. Characterised by a juggernaut of energy, aggression and vaulting creative ambition; a continually evolving musical and artistic development has led the band from expansive walls of noise through to prog worship all the way back to straight up rock and roll.

monsters have drunk all the rider at festivals like Reading & Leeds, Exit, Incubate, Brainwash, In The City, The Great Escape, at All Tomorrows Parties concerts in London and at shows with Russian Circles, Foals, Coheed and Cambria, These Arms Are Snakes, Oceansize, 65 Days of Static, Jeniferever, Dinosaur Pile-Up, iLikeTrains, Pulled Apart By Horses, Mono, Envy, Health, Unsane and The Fall.

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Reviews

"Creating frequently cacophonous and consistently transfixing songs, they rock like proper nutjobs in a manner that's wilfully experimental but never pretentious. Their growing reputation for putting on one hell of a live show is richly deserved."
- Rock Sound Magazine

"An entity of unmatchable interest These Monsters deliver where not many artists of this ilk can The fire they breath is sure to burn a beautifully sordid image into your musical landscape."
- Drowned in Sound

"This is big bad rock music at its most unapologetic."
- Artrocker Magazine

"'Call Me Dragon' is an interestingly dark affair, with hefty riffs, powerhouse drumming and an all round cohesiveness that many modern prog and psych influenced bands fall short of."
- Contact Music

"These Monsters have a very distinct contemporary sound whilst flourishing in classic influences."
- Collective-Zine

"This is very much avant-rock done absolutely right."
- The Fly Magazine

"Sweaty, phenomenally loud and utterly uncontrollable."
- Clash Music

General Info

  • Genre: Big Beat / Punk / Rock

    Location Leeds, London and South East, Un

    Profile Views: 349782

    Last Login: 4/12/2012

    Member Since 6/3/2005

    Website thesemonsters.com

    Record Label Brew / Function / Zankyo (Japan)

    Type of Label Unsigned

  • Bio

  • Members

    Ian Thirkill, Samuel Pryor, Tommy Davidson

  • Influences

    Jesus Lizard, Shellac, High On Fire, Fugazi, Cutting Pink With Knives, Converge, Young Widows, Nirvana, Queens of the Stone Age, King Crimson

  • Sounds Like

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Releases

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22/03/2010
BRW010 These Monsters - 'Call Me Dragon' Album
CD: buynow MP3:These Monsters - Itunes VINYL: buynow


08/09/2010
ZNR092 These Monsters - '…Are Ruining Our Children’s Lives' EP
- Japanese Re-Release with Exclusive Bonus Tracks live at The Packhorse
buynow


26/07/2010
SD087 Various Artists / Breaking Rocks
In Aid of http://www.jailguitardoors.co.uk
- These Monsters, Billy Bragg, The Neat, Baddies, Televised Crime Wave, The ABC Club, The Kabeedies etc etc
These Monsters - Itunes


28/07/2008
CNM005 Various - The First Brainwash Compilation
- These Monsters, Youthmovies, Dinosaur Pile-Up, Pulled Apart By Horses, Vessels, Jonquil, Humanfly, We vs Death etc etc
buynow


07/04/2008
OTB009 ’On The Bone’ compilation II
- These Monsters, Grammatics, This Et Al, That Fucking Tank, Napoleon IIIrd, The Twilight Sad, DInosaur Pile-Up, Pulled Apart By Horses, etc etc
buynow


10/12/2007
BRW001 Brew Vol.1 CD
- These Monsters, Chickenhawk, Bilge Pump, Cowtown, Humanfly, Vessels, The Plight etc etc
buynow


09/10/2006
CNM002 These Monsters - 'To Swin Back & Forth / Mort Pour Rien' Single
- Limited to 500 Screen Printed Digi Packs
SOLD OUT


17/07/2006
CNM001 These Monsters - '…Are Ruining Our Children’s Lives' EP
- Limited to 500 White Vinyl / 200 Handmade Screen Printed Digi Packs
SOLD OUT

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