The Monsters Announce “Road To Muddy Roots” US Tour

Two years have passed since The Monsters traveled through Mexico up through the West Coast, and come September, the storied Bernese punk freaks return to America to take their ballistic live show for a run of dates across the East Coast en route to their third appearance at Tennessee’s Muddy Roots Festival. This short tour marks The Monsters‘ erasing a 14-year-long absence from the Atlantic Seaboard, beginning in New York’s Queens borough and concluding in Atlanta’s Little Five Points neighborhood, before flying to Spain to sonically pummel the Funtastic Dracula Carnival crowd in Benidorm.

Cited pioneers among the slew of Switzerland’s music fringe, The Monsters are justifiably well deserving to be included in this category due to their creation of an off-branch rock genre they dub trash rock, a subgenre that’s influenced a whole new generation of underground punk groups since forming in 1986. This genre is a strange mix of rockabilly grooves fused with chainsaw-fury speed punk, and The Monsters have only become faster, funnier, and more furious with age, with the proof on their recent album, You’re Class, I’m Trash, that is available via Voodoo Rhythm Records, Slovenly Recordings, and Sounds of Subterrania. The Monsters also have a new full length in the pipeline, watch this space for more details.