Monotonix- Monotonix

Artist: Monotonix
Album: Monotonix
Year Released: 2007
Country: Israel
Label: Drag City Records
Genre(s): rock, experimental, psychedelic

Monotonix are the greatest rock band of all time. This bassless trio is rock at its finest, and every note on this record proves that statement. I've never seen them live, but the stories I have heard about it are INSANE. Apparently they played a show last year outside a coffee shop in the biggest intersection of Tel-Aviv. Get this: near the end of the show, they took their PA, guitar amp, and set of drums into the middle of the intersection and played a song, with the singer reportedly jumping on top of cars and singing. Fuck what any other band may claim; Monotonix is by far the heaviest, most intense group I have ever heard. Here's to many, many more albums.

Link: http://lix.in/06e2860d

Atlantis- Carpe Omnium

Artist: Atlantis
Album: Carpe Omnium (purchase)
Year Released: 2007
Country: Netherlands
Label: Field
Genre(s): Post-rock, psychedelic, industrial

Atlantis is a band that is not as well-known as they should be, as they unfortunately share their name with a bunch of other shitfest bands. HOWEVER, here at Lumberjacks Anonymous, we post music that sucks less than other music, which is why I'm posting Carpe Omnium. This album has great soundscapes, many of them uncharacteristically dark for traditional post-rock. They have an industrial element that evokes post-apocalyptic images (for me at least). Think the future scenes from The Terminator. Yeah. Awesome, right? Get it.

Link: http://lix.in/17ddeca4