Monolith

Created in 2018, Monolith is a one man project from the mind of multi-instrumentalist Nathan Hughes based in Manchester. Drawing on elements from multiple genres across the metal spectrum, infusing electronic elements, he aims to wrap it all up in one big progressive listening experience where no influence or style is off limits.

What started out as a university assignment has now become a full on solo passion project, using experience as a song writer in multiple bands over the past 12 years to create deeply personal music which explores a range of soundscapes and themes.

In 2020, "Sentience" was the debut album which saw the ideas laid down in the EPs taken to the next level. Bigger. Better. More epic.

3 years later, we arrive at Circulus Novem.

Inspired by Dante's Inferno and the Divine Comedy, this album is a soundscape to Dante Alighieri's descent through the nine circles of hell.

9 songs, each representing a different circle through the descent, takes on a more cinematic approach than on previous releases.

Influenced musically by the likes of Mick Gordon and the Doom soundtrack, Buster Odeholm and Humanity's Last Breath, this is without a doubt the heaviest and most ambitious entry to the Monolith library.

For fans of Tesseract, The Contortionist, and Meshuggah