[Cover photo credit to Giuseppe Aufiero]

Instrumental Psych Rock band Monkey3 have announced a “cosmic” new album for 2024: Welcome To The Machine, which is set for release on February 23, 2024 via Napalm Records. Monkey3 has also revealed first album single and video, “Rackman”.

Welcome To The Machine will mark the band’s seventh album to date and they promise it to be their “most epic, dark and captivating record”. It will also continue to explore their place in the modern Stoner and Psychedelic Rock scene.

Since Welcome To The Machine is a “reflection on the future of humanity through the duality of man and machine,“ they comment on the new single:

Are human beings becoming machines or machines becoming human beings?

Welcome To The Machine‘s musical themes are inspired by movies such as 2001: A Space Odyssey, The Matrix, Sunshine, Solaris and 1984, while “unveiling an intense mankind vs. machines story.”

The album was recorded and mixed by Raphaël Bovey at Blend Studio and MyRoom Studio, and was mastered by Lad Agabekov at Caduceus Studios in Switzerland. The cover artwork was created by Sebastian Jerke.