Murmur Of Monks is excited to announce its brand new trinity “Ballades Bij Avondgloed”, which will be available on the 4th of January 2023 through murmurofmonks.bandcamp.com. The 3 instrumentals are labelled by Humwawa as ‘a concerto for piano, orchestra and digital sound pollution’. Inspiration for the songs came from one of Belgian’s main classical composers and musicologist Wim Mertens. The ‘Ballades Bij Avondgloed’ release also contains a free bonus trinity ‘Live Ballades’, including 3 non album MOM tracks performed live with The Masked Performance Theatre. This trinity will not be for sale separately, so consider it a New Year’s gift for the loyal MOM supporters! There is also a video available for ‘Avondgloed’, the first song of the upcoming release. “BALLADES BIJ AVONDGLOED” tracklist: 1.Avondgloed 2.Melancholie 3.Passiespel Bonus “LIVE BALLADES” tracklist: 4.Bedroeven (live) 5.Begeesteren (live) 6.Maskeren (live)

To celebrate 40 years of the black metal genre, Murmur Of Monks has recorded its own black metal song called 'Blacktron Metal'. As the title of the song suggests (and in tradition with the blacktron genre) no real instruments were used to create this track. Actually, there aren't any guitar samples in the song too. According to Murmur Of Monks mainman Humwawa the essence of the track was to 'capture the black metal vibe with mere electronics, drum samples and a bunch of evil screams', which is quite different from the traditional way of playing black metal of course. According to Humwawa, the song was written, programmed and recorded in less than one day: "This way I was able to keep all spontaneity and primal aggression into the song, both essential elements for a true black metal feel in my opinion".   "Blacktron Metal" will be available as a digital stream/download through Murmur Of Monks' Bandcamp site (murmurofmonks.bandcamp.com) on Friday November 11th, 2022.

Murmur Of Monks is very excited to announce its upcoming release, the 5-track EP 'Laibachesque'. The EP wil be available as a digital stream/download through murmurofmonks.bandcamp.com on Friday June 10th, 2022. As the title of the EP suggests, the songs are a tribute to Slovenian band LAIBACH and the influence they've had on the sound of MURMUR OF MONKS since the very beginning. The EP contains no covers, only original songs by MURMUR OF MONKS featuring some of the typical LAIBACH elements.  Prior to its release a video for the song 'I Don't Like God, I Like Laibach' will be published. The EP will also be accompanied by full artwork and liner notes from mainman Humwawa, explaining the songs and their relation to Laibach. Full 'Laibachesque' track list: 1. Opus Diaboli 2. Jesus Christ Moviestar 3. Atheist Anthem 4. I Don't Like God, I Like Laibach 5. March For Laibach

Murmur Of Monks is very excited to announce its collaboration with FAKE MOVIE PRODUCTION. Mainman Humwawa has written theme songs for three upcoming FMP movies, starting with the US horror/slasher 'ONE STEP TOO MANY', directed by Frank Emmanuel. The theme song to the movie will be released as part of a new MOM 'Soundtrack Series' on Friday February 11th, 2022 and will be available exclusively at murmurofmonks.bandcamp.com. The song will be accompanied by the official movie intro video, which will be uploaded the same day on MOM's Youtube Channel. In March and April 2022 the next theme songs from the 'Soundtrack Series' will be released for the following movies: 'Fjellmord' - a Norwegian thriller directed by Kjell Horghagen 'Breathtaker' - a British fantasy/thriller directed by Bill Greenway