UK metallers MONSTERWORKS are going to release their forthcoming album “Earth” on August 20th. The album will be available as a special edition numbered digipak CD signed by the band, with lyric booklet and two bonus tracks.

Vocalist/Guitarist Jon had this to say about the concepts surrounding the album,

“I am intrigued by evolution, not just of biological organisms but also how the physical world changes over time, so it was not that much of a stretch to consider doing an album themed around the life-cycle of Earth; beginning with its origin ‘From Dust and Gravity’ where a clumping together of rock and minerals left over from a supernova explosion formed a globe orbiting an infant star. Each track progresses chronologically, from an early period called the ‘Late Heavy Bombardment’ which is thought to have delivered water and seeded chemical elements that developed into life and what was to be our ‘Last Universal Ancestor.’ Then we move onto a time where cyanobacteria started to photosynthesize and a process of ‘Oxygenation’ paved the way for more complex animals to evolve, ‘Powered by Fate’ as it were. Explosions of life, even when resulting in huge animals like dinosaurs, were often ‘Bookended by Extinction’ events that wiped the slate almost entirely clean until our chance came in the present ‘Aeon of Man.’ 

Earth honors the seemingly miraculous yet naturally occurring planet on which we live. The title track is the only song that gets a little preachy about our responsibility as custodians of the environment; the rest is just a tale of the sequence of events that got us this far. So take from it philosophically what you will, MONSTERWORKS primarily aims to produce metal which blurs the boundaries between preposterousness and the familiar while hopefully initiating a little independent thought along the way.”

Earth track list:

From Dust and Gravity

Late Heavy Bombardment

Last Universal Ancestor

Oxygenation

Powered by Fate

Bookended By Extinction

Aeon of Man