With just four days left until release, Möngöl Hörde have unveiled another track from their debut album. You can take a listen below.
A blistering mix of hardcore punk and metal with a hint of mathrock guitar work thrown in, the album is an uncompromising and intense experience. It hits the shelves on 26/05/14.
During the relentless touring for his huge selling album ‘England Keep My Bones’ – gigs that saw support slots with Billy Bragg and successful festival appearances alongside sold-out headline shows – singer-songwriter Frank Turner made an unexpected move. He teamed up with his old mate Ben Dawson and formed Möngöl Hörde, a hardcore band channelling a lot of the spirit of their previous band Million Dead. The band played a low key gig in a Camden pub before appearing at the Reading and Leeds Festivals, before Turner resumed his solo work, releasing the commercially successful ‘Tape Deck Heart’. Little more was heard from the Hörde until a couple of years later, when they announced the release of a debut album, little over a week before it was due to hit the shelves – a lightning-fast, almost guerilla like promotion very in keeping with the sharp and uncompromising sound from the band themselves.
In the summer of 2012 folk/punk’s favourite son Frank Turner unveiled a new hardcore punk side project Möngöl Hörde, reuniting the singer songwriter with his old Million Dead bandmate Ben Dawson.
Hardcore punk legends Madball are set to play a handful of westcoast US dates, beginning in February. The confirmed dates and locations are below. The band currently have no scheduled plans to visit Europe.
After a handful of EP releases, OFF!’s debut album (released in the summer of 2012) was the year’s best punk record. Possibly even the best punk record of the previous decade. The combined talents of ex-Black Flag/Circle Jerks frontman Keith Morris and Redd Kross man Steve McDonald was always likely to result in something fairly explosive, but OFF! really pushes their ferocity to brilliant extremes.