„The Monsters" were formed in 1986 in small-town Bern, capital of Switzerland. Their sound is a fuzzedout mix between 60ies garage punk, wild teenage trash rockabilly and primitive rock'n'roll. Its 187% no MTV and top 100 shit! The actual lineup is guitar, bass and Minimal Drum. Besides the countless shows in Switzerland „The Monsters" played extensive tours through Europe including Germany, France, Holland, Belgium, Italy, Austria, England, Denmark and Spain. In 2003 the band toured Argentina, Brasil and New York. The Monsters are a kickass live band who will burn every stage down. Over the years „The Monsters" recorded 6 albums, several singles and ep's and appeared on countless compilations. The record „Youth Against Nature" was recored in the now famous Toe Rag Studios (London) by Liam Watson (after our recorings he had a huge hit with the White Stripes) and Robert Butler (Miracle Workers). „I See Dead People" came with a 1000-piece puzzle, booklet, sticker and button etc The Monsters appear on Voodoo rhythm Records, Switzerland. The label is famous for it's taste and style, as it is for the beautiful artwork. Voodoo rhytm is run by Beat-Man, who (by accident...) is also the singer and guitar player of The Monsters. Beat-Man played - and still plays - in other projects called Lightning Beat-Man, Reverend Beat-Man, Die Zorros and some more. As a one-man-band he toured all of Europe, played venues such as Jazz Festival Montreux, Frat Shack, Dour Festival, Eurocene and Las Vegas Grind (USA) on the same bill with acts like Dick Dale, Public Enemy, Ramones, Prince, Ramstein, Bob Log III and more. 'N'ROLL TRASH... GO SEE THEM LIVE ON STAGE.... THEY BLEW YOUR BRAIN AWAY WITH LOTS OF CHAINSAW MASSACRE GARAGE PUNK AND PRIMITIVE ROCK'N'ROLL TRASH
LIVE 2024: March 2. Geneva, La Graviere CH (with Powerplant) March 8. Basel , Kaschemme CH March 9 . Stuttgart, Goldmarks DE (with Urban Junior) March 28 Zürich, Zukunft CH April 25 - Mexico City, Gato calavera MEX April 26 - Izcalli, El Taller MEX April 27 - Mexico City, la Mezcali MEX April 28 - Tijuana, Black Box MEX April 30 - Los Angeles, Zebulon CA USA May 1 - Las vegas, The Usual Place NV USA May 2 - Palmdale, Transplants Brewing Co CA USA May 3 - Santa Cruz, The Crepe Place CA USA May 4 - San Francisco, Thee Parkside CA USA May 5 - Reno, The Cellar NV USA May 7 - Eugene, The Big Dirty OR USA May 8 - Portland, Mano Oculta OR USA May 9 - Olympia, The Crypt WA USA May 10 - Yakima, Bearded Monkey WA USA May 11 - Seattle, Clock-Out Lounge WA USA
LINE UP 2018 - NOW Beat-Man -Guitars/Vocals Janosh -Bass Swan Lee -Drum Pumi - the knobs 2000-2018 Beat-Man -Guitars/Vocals Janosh -Bass Di Putto -1Drum Swan Lee -2Drum Pumi - the knobs 1995-1999 Beat-Man -Guitars/Vocals Janosh -Bass Di Putto -1Drum Swan Lee -2Drum 1991-1994 Beat-Man -Guitars/Vocals Yves -Guitars Janosh - Bass Di Putto -Drums 1988-1990 Beat-Man -Guitars/Vocals Yves -Guitar Tiger -Stand up Bass Janosh -Stand up Bass Peppe -Drums 1987 Beat-Man -Guitars/Vocals Yves -Guitar Raff -Bass Peppe -Drums 1986 Beat-Man -Guitars/Vocals Yves -Guitar Oli -Stand up Drums
Full Length Album Releases: - 2021 you’re class i’m trash (voodoo rhythm, Slovenly, Soound of subterania) – 2016 M (Voodoo Rhythm records , Sounds of Subbterania) – 2011 Pop up Yours( voodoo rhythm records, Sounds of Subbterania) – 2006 Garage Punk Switzerland 1986-2006 (voodoo rhythm records VR1237) – 2005 Hide and seek (sazanami label Japan, off the Hip ,Australia) – 2002 I see dead people (voodoo rhythm records, Sounds of Subbterania – 1999 Birds eat Martians (Voodooo rhythm records) – 2010 Youth Against Nature (record junkie, Voodoo rhythm records) – 1995 Jungle Noise (Jungle Noise, voodoo rhythm) – 1992 The Hunch (Record Junkie, crazy love, rumble records, voodoo rhythm) – 1989 Masks (Record Junkie, voodoo rhythm)
TRACKLIST
1. intro 2. pony tail 3. chicken baby 4. get on the right track baby 5. I'm always wrong 6. wild wild lover 7. I got the brain up my ass 8. dead end street 9. you don't have to do it 10. down the road 11. black 12. we are middle class 13. speed racer 14. I wanna be dead 15. birds eat Martians 16. walking through a cemetery
Wild primitive teenage rock'n'roll mixed up with chainsaw massacre garage punk and Trash! It was the 5'th album Full fist in your face music and lyrics recorded by Kat-a-log who also recorded the '95 album 'Jungle Noise' the whole drum set was Build in Metal Plates and the Guitar was Recorded in Public Garage Complex, the Recordings are Very Raw and sharp as a knife with a Ultra Mean Trash Factor The Monsters are Beat-Man,Janosh and Di Putto a classic Trio Sound- Guitar Bass and Drums", as you like it! There are two cover versions on this fine slab-o-wax . "Wild wild lover" by Benny Joy and "Get on the right track" by Joe Clay. Full-delay-Vox far-out-fucked-up-rockabilly-trash in the typical Monsters fashion. Cover artwork by Dirk Bonsma.
CD1 01. Intro (Radio Barks,japan)1:29 02. THE LOVE I NEVER HAD (LIVE ? (Sedel Luzern,2003)2:42 03. BABY I LOVE YOU (1987, recorded in the rehurcal room)2:20 04. BOSS (Wild at heart,Berlin 2004)2:09 05. I GOT THE BAIN UP MY ASS (Reitschule bern 2001 )2:40 06. DON'T BURN THE WITCH (1987, RECORDED IN A UNKNOWN STUDIO WITH TIGER)1:26 07. Seven (Cbgbs New York 2003)3:42 08. I KISS YOU DEAD (Kofmehl, solothurn 2002)2:39 09. DEAD END STREET (Bocephus,Buenos aires 2003)4:10 10. 7 GATES OF HELL (1992 REHURCAL ROOM)2:05 11. Burn my mind (Reitschule Bern 95)2:33 12. HOLD ME HUG ME (RADIO LORA, 1992)2:07 13. Dead song for bela (übungsraum 86)1:09 14. Psyco Trip (übungsraum 86)2:17 15. BLUES FOR JOE (Recording session 2005)2:46 16. Monster Rock (Radio lora 92)2:38 17. I KISS YOU DEAD (Brasserie Lorraine ,Bern 2003)2:39 18. LEAVE ME ALONE (Kiff Aarau 2002)2:08 19. FUCK MY BRAIN BUDDH BUDDAH (Hafenklang Hamburg 2002)1:08 20. ZÜRI BRÖNNT (Speyer 2003)0:26 21. NEVER COME BACK (Sedel, Luzern 2003)4:18 22. HI HEELS (Remise , Wil)5:56 23. LONESOME TOWN (Bogen 13 Züri 2003)3:45 24. OH WRONG (Bogen 13 Züri 2003)5:01
CD2 1. OUT OF MY LIVE (1992, REHURCAL ROOM)2:22 2. Rosemary mc coy (übungsraum 87)2:24 3. Nightmares (übungsraum 87)1:56 4. SEARCHING (Hirscheneck, Basel 2004)4:41 5. TEENAGE WEREWOLF (1986 HUUS)2:17 6. Searching (friSon 89)2:59 7. WILD THING (1987 UNKNOWN STUDIO)2:13 8. WHATCHA GONNA DO ( Recording Session 2005)2:40 9. VOODOO LOVE ( 1992, WEIRD DEMO)3:22 10. ZÜRI BRÖNNT (LIVE Sedel LUZERN 2004)0:38 11. ZÜRI BRÖNNT (Kofmehl Solodurn 2004)1:18 12. Black (Monofaktur München2004)1:43 13. I WANNA BE LIKE I WANNA BE (Recording session 2005)2:34 14. WHATCHA GONNA DO (Kofmehl solodurn2004)3:13 15. WEISHEIT0:24 16. WEISHEIT0:05 17. WEISHEIT0:40 18. WEISHEIT :07 19. SCHRAUBENZIEHER 0:23 20. FUCK MY BRAIN (Bogen 13 Züri 2003) 2:23 21. Dead end street (cbgbs 2003) 4:10 22. High heels (cbgbs2003) 9:01
THE MONSTERS
"GARAGE PUNK FROM BERN ,SWITZERLAND 1986-06" LP: VR1237 (EAN CODE:7640111767251) CD: VRCD37 (EAN CODE:7640111767282)
20 YEARS 'THE MONSTERS' a 2 CD and 2 LP set of rare unreleased stuff, live recordings (not shitty ones..loud n powerful) from all over the world, South America USA , Japan europe and and and, Demo Recordings for the Early Albums, Rehurcal Room recordings wierd Tape recordings very First Rehurcal and New Recordings from the Never Ever Session in 2005 the whole thing comes in 2CD's LP's because it was so much material to chose from and i think we did a very intressting compilation, Shure the Monsters Live is much better than the records but i think we found songs from all the recordings that comes very near, Guitars are mostly out of tuning and as loud as it's get, solos are uncontroled and with different lenght in every show as well the lyrics are different in ever show.you here the Clone Drum set how it sounds live and with many many fotos trou the 20 jears of beeing the monsters in the Booklet and Liner notes all the members of the band wrote something down to the recordings and to the show where it was, to the people who organicing the shows, and little background storrys... this is not just another Live Album this is more like a encyclopedia of the Underground Work the monsters did in Switzerland and all over the world, 20 jears of playing all over the world and meeting people building up the Whole Voodoo Rhythm family, the monsters record themself , they do all the artwork the organice the tours and and and all them self and trou the years there's not one second mainstream influence in the music it's RAW RAW ROCK'N'ROLL MUSIC , and true to the bone
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The Monsters were formed in Bern, Switzerland back in 1986. It was the Time where Mainstream Music totally Took over everything, Punk Rock was Over and Dead, the Kids in Bern Shaving and Coloring their Hair and Build'm to a Quiss or Mohawk, they Sit Around in Pups and in Front of the Supermarkd Drinking Beer and listening to Rockabilly and Garage Punk from a Ghetto-Blaster and Pogo in the Streest, meating in Record Shops and listening to the newest Trash From London.. so did The Monsters.. pissed of about the Youth Politic movement in the Contry and pissed off about the Music Programm in the Radios.. Yves had a Sex Pistols record and Beat-Man a Gene Vincent one.. Yves learnd the Jop as Chemical loboprant and Beat-Man was a Electrician... in 1986 they went to HUUS ,a squated Rehurcal and Party Room.. of the Radiations and they did the Fist Recordings together with Oli the Radiations Drummer, Peppi from the Record Junkie Record Shop where the Cats Hangout sed one Day You Guys need a Pedal to the Metal Drummer after that Peppi was the Drummer, after searching for a Bass Player they Found Janosh from Aarau he had a Quiff and a Stand up bass that was good enough for the music they wanted to play , after 2 Albums and several Singles pepi left the Band and Tibu joined the Crew couse in the ad they where asking for a drummer who had a own drum kid and who drinks beer... tibu was perfect for that.. Swan lee came in the mid-90s to the band couse of Tibu's jop he was not able to come on tour anymore.. but after a view Rehurcals with both drummers they desighted to play with Both Drummers and Foundet the Worlds first Clone Drum set In 2006 the Monsters did 6 Albums and a couple of singles on Several Labels.. they caled the Monsters Psychobilly or Crunch-Abilly or Garage Punk.. but what they realy do is TEENAGE CHAINSAW MASSACRE GARAGE TRASH, today toey are wilder and more noisy than ever.. today still a lot of people leave the Room when they play.. couse it's wild it's loud it's noisy and it's totlay Sexy... but if you stay you will come into a Climax you never where bevore in your live This is PUS SWISS UNDERGOUD MUSIC !! not one scond a comercial act ,they don't care if the instruments are not in tune and they don't care if they sing everytime other lyrics to their songs.. the just don't care all the wanna do is Rock and Roll
1. the love I never had 2. fuck my brain 3. I see dead people 4. Sonic Nightmares 5. Acid Dreams 6. Oh Wrong 7. the other man 8. I'm going away girl 9. I kiss you dead 10. Boss 11. .. and then you cry 12. you know why 13. burn in flames 14. digging my grave
THE MONSTERS
"I SEE DEAD PEOPLE" LP: VR1214 (EAN CODE:7640111760160) CD: VRCD14 (EAN CODE:7640111760399)
It's our 6th album now and the first album with the Amazing Clone Drum Set !!!, we started in 1986 the recordings and the songs went trashier and more Fuzz and Feedback every year ..... for this record we bought our own home made studio with mixing desk and a 1.5 inch tape machine and microphones from the trashcan, Pumi our Live Mixer and Janosh recorded it in a week, for the first 1000 copies we did a 1000 piece puzzle and a pox as a sleeve... but that item is sold out already now we present you the official version of this TRASH PICE, when we started making the songs for this record I had no lust to write any lyrics to that so we made up most songs free and I sung what I felt like to sing.. it's anyway all about killing killing some more the falling in love and get killed go to hell and having fun down there... THIS RECORD IS FULL TRASH, I DON'T THINK THAT ANY SERIOUS RADIO STATION GONNA PLAY THIS BUT IF SO... THEN WE HAVE A CHOISE TO GIVE YOU ON YOUR WAY... PLAY LOUD AS POSSIBLE...we recorded is loud as fuck, so the neighbours came over a view times while we recording that record. but even better is if you come to our shows and we blow your brain away in one second !!! LP comes in Black Vinyl with full 4 colour Sleeve and inlay card CD comes in digi pack with the full surrounding MONO sound of today's youth generation Other Full length records by the Monsters: Masks 1989; the Hunch 1992; Jungle Noise 1995;Youth Against Nature 1996; Birds eat Martians LP/CD 1999; I see dead people 2002
TRACKLIST 1. Baby You're My Drug 2. Dig My Hair 3. I Can't Stop 4. Not Enough 5. I Don't Want You Anymore 6. Bongo Fuzz 7. Happy People Make Me Sick 8. Nothing, You Coward 9. Voodoo Rhythm 10. Too Pretty To Be Loved 11. You Will Die 12. Let Me Spend The Night With Your Wife
THE MONSTERS
"M" FORMAT LP+CD: VR12100 (Bar-Code: 7640148982573) incl FREE CD+POSTER FORMAT CD: VRCD100 (Bar-Code: 7640148982627) Original Release Year : 28.10.2016
LOW ON LYRICS AND EVEN LOWER ON POETRY. THERE'S TOO MUCH TALK IN THIS WORLD, BUT THERE'S NEVER ENOUGH ROCK'N'ROLL! THE ALBUM IS EXTREMELY CRUDE AND HAS RAW SOUND OF PURE ROCK'N'ROLL SNOTTY GARAGE PUNK AND TOTAL TRASH !!!
The Monsters were formed in BERN SWITZERLAND 1986 as a Altarnative to the Music in that time Period (Disco,POP,Mainstream Rock) and after the 30 YEARS in Doing Trash and Playing all over the Globe the Monsters went to Toulouse in France to record their Hot as Shit Album 'M' (named after the Fritz Lang Movie from 1931) the Album Starts with a FUZZ TRASH GARAGE Classic , BABY YOU'RE MY DRUG followed up by a HARD CORE BOOGIE Number DIG MY HAIR, and like that the Album Goes On, all Songs have NO or even Less of a HI END POETRY Aspect, there is so much BLA BLA TALK in this world why do the same, so Cutting the Songs on only a couple of Words seems to be the Logical Fact and the Alternative to what's going on on this Planet at the Moment, Let the Action Talk not The Words. the Sound of the Album is very Raw and there's nothing Sweet about it, it's Recorded in a Rotten Old Practice Room in the Bad Parts of Toulouse with Mr Trash itself LoLo Spider of the Infamous DESTINATION LONELY, the Song VOODOO RHYTHM was written as a Tribut to Voodoo Rhythm records the Record label along with the MUDDY ROOTS Festival in Tennessee USA what became a Homebase for the Monsters as well
1. HONEYMOON AT HELL 2. ADDAMS FAMILY 3. TEENAGE WEREWOLF 4. SURFING AT THE T.H.U.N.-SEA 5. REAL MONSTER THEME 6. ROSEMARY MC COY 7. THE DEVIL IN YOUR DREAMS 8. WHISKY SONG 9. SNAKE OUT 10. WILMA 11. I LOVE MY CAR 12. PSYCHO'S WHAT YOU NEED 13. WILD THING
REISSUE OF THEE 1989 - LOST ALBUM PURE TEENAGE PSYCHOBILLY GARAGE TRASH FROM SWITZERLAND
the Monsters where formed in Bern Switzerland back in 1986 , they recorded 'MASKS' as their 1st Album in 1989, a year after they released a EP called 'nightmares'. After many shows in Switzerland they decided to go to Luzern in the Schweinesound studios to record a Full Lenght and spend 3 Days recording it and was 1st LP Released on Bernese Record Label and Shop 'recORD junkie records' in a edition of 666 records, they where sold out pretty fast and never reprinted again, record junkie stoped releaseing records after a couple years of existence , Beat-Man was working at record Junkie in the Shop so when it collapsed he formed Voodoo Rhythm records and after 24 jears of silence and hours in the Cellar digging trou original 2" Master Tapes and transform it into 2013 sound format that Trash Billy Desaster Is Available and Reborn Again, the Lyrics are as Stupid as its get and on the Instruments they Have a Standard of some retarded Cavemen, and i think that makes that Album interesting, teenagers with the Attitude to Go in A Studio and no Borders just the Love of Rockabilly And Garage Punk and that Album was Born, PURE TEENAGE TRASH A BILLY !!!
1. i want you 2. blow um mau mau 3. ce soir 4. when im grown up 5. Cry 6. speedy's coming 7. whatcha gonna do 8. more you talk less i here you 9. baby ok 10. in and out 11. ain't crawling back to you no more 12. drifting away 13. blues for joe 14. into the void
The Monsters "pop up yours" LP+DL: VR1267-1 (EAN CODE: 7640148983273) LP+CD: VR1267 (EAN-CODE: 7640148980043) SOLD OUT CD: VRCD67 (EAN-CODE: 7640148980135)
Chainsaw Massacre Garage Dirty Rock'n'Roll Ultra Trash Punk from Bern Switzerland, incl. Blow Um Mau Mau and disturbing Scorpions cover version of: Speedy's coming
this is their 8th full length Album POP UP YOURS, Recorded in 2011at Outside Inside Studios (Movie Star Junkies, Thurston Moore, Dead Brothers etc) in Italy and mixed in Different Places (blow um mau mau is mixed at star track studios in Switzerland, by Olifr M Guz RIP) on this Recordings the Music is strapped down to the Max, One Guitar ,Bass and TWO DRUMS (CLONE DRUM SET) that's the Monsters in the begin of the 2000, Ultra Simple Lyrics most time just one line for a Song that's enough and with the Power of a Jumbo Jet they get in your ears and destroy your Brain in No Time. 1986 they’ve got inspired by music made in 1956, is 1974 when Blues Punk Was Born, AC/DC, TEN YEARS AFTER, THE RAMONES with a Twist of their own CHAINSAW MASSACRE GARAGE TRASH PUNK the Monsters calls it: RAW RIFF TRASH ROCK we call it TRAAAASSSHH !!! extraordinary SHARP VOCALS super Raw Simple straight Guitar Stupid One Tone stomach crunching Bass and 2 Drummers that brings every Dead Body back to Live I WANT YOU is a love song that is so strait and Loud that it Hurts and comes comes direct to the point, MORE YOU TALK LESS I HERE YOU another ONE RIFF SONG that uses the Refrain trough the whole song, Blow Um Mau Mau is the hit Song on the Album and got a million clicks on those damn digital platforms The only cover version on that album is From Germany’s Kraut rockers turned into Love Shack popers THE SCORPIONS ‚SPEEDY’S COMING‘ from their 1974 album FLY TO THE RAINBOW ... so welcome to the world of the Monsters SIMPLE RAW ONE RIFF TRASH ROCK
