Motorpsycho - Here Be Monsters Motorpsycho

Here Be Monsters is an album from the tail end of Kenneth Kapstad’s tenure in the band. After working with Thomas Henriksen as mix engineer on Still Life With Eggplant, Behind The Sun, The Motorpnakotic Fragments and En Konsert For Folk Flest, the band was by 2015, ready to try working with him as a producer. Based on music written for the 200 anniversary of the Norsk Teknisk Museum, Here Be Monsters mainly focused on stately, slow and epic music with the external calm and the wonderful 1973 hi-fi estethics of a Dark Side Of A Moon or other albums of that time and ilk, with the usual motorpsychodelic fire just occasionally showing through.

An exercise in measured, contained emotion, it was a huge contrast to earlier explosive efforts by this line-up of the band, and even shortened to a single disc album, it wasn’t an album that exactly ‘rocked out’, but one that showed a different, more tactile side of the band.

The title track was even deemed a step too far into the fog, and was eventually taken off the album and released on it’s own as a stand alone ‘tour special’ LP. With the title track reinstated and for the first time claiming it’s rightful place in the running order, Here Be Monsters the album is finally complete and whole. Now you can join the band as they go all the way up river to the heart of chaos…