Monkey Hole

Monkey Hole has its first piece of work Psychophonies From a Violent Party to its name. This was recorded at the end of 2003 in the Valencian RPM studios by the hand of Roger Garc?a and self-edited in 2004. This first recording brought immediate success from critics and public alike and its renown began to spread. Several of the themes belonging to that first recording formed part of compilations such as LPH & FRIENDS, in association with Zero Records and El Diablo(distribution) or RECORDINGS FOR A DEAD HERO.

In the same way, the theme "Nightmare in the doll?s house" was included in the soundtrack of the film Kombate Brutal (Brutal Combat) which was screened during the Sitges festival in the same year of 2004. It was, however, in winning the Digital Emission contest, which was awarded with their participation at Festimad 04 along with greats such as Kom, Pixies, Blood Brothers, The (International) Noise Conspiracy, Standstill, Terroristars,., when Monkey Hole really took a step forward in their path towards getting established in the state metal scene. After the performance at Festimad 04, very good reviews were received and propositions to carry out concerts in various parts of the country began to arrive. At the end of 2004 Monkey Hole crossed the Spanish border with the help of their best distributor Internet, receiving news from the other side of the big puddle. Three webzines: Pivotalrage-U.S.A (www.pivotalrage.com), Hellcast-Chile (www.hellcast.com) and Musicextreme-Argentina (www.musicextreme.com) had done respective reviews of the EP, speaking very highly of the band and thus confirming that Monkey Hole is a group that can compete at international level without any fear. In 2005 the concerts continued as well as the inclusion of the band in two new compilations, this time through the Mad Taste II compilation carried out by the same organisation of Festimad together with the Factory Author stamp, as well as the Z-Z Rocks Vol.1 made by the webzine Zona Zero (www.zona-zero.net). It is precisely this latter media that does a ranking with votes from the public in order to evaluate which groups have had more impact in different categories and Monkey Hole managed to get 2nd place in the categories of Best national model and National revelation group. Two new contests include the band among the award winners: at Garrofa Rock-Castillo of Pe?iscola where they ended up in second place and received economic compensation for that and also the Demo 05 contest of the Rockzone magazine, through which they ended up playing a part in one of the concerts given for the celebration of the aforementioned magazines first year of existence. Without any doubt the band finds itself at a great moment and this only justifies the confidence that many people have had in it, for example Fuckin Bastardz Incorporated, the official group sponsors. The year 2006 has been chosen to record what will be their first album and, for this reason, composition is the main objective. Even so, the band is headlining the Lebrancho Rock 06 festival of Fuerteventura(Canary Islands) and has been confirmed for the next Eastpack Brutal Noise festival of Barcelona, which includes prestigious European bands such as Caliban, Born from pain and Gojira. Finally, in May 2006, they entered the RPM studios of Valencia under the orders of Roger Garc?a and carried out the recording and mixing of 12 songs that make up the new album Termites dont respect the temple of God. The record was mastered in the Cutting Room of Solna (Sweden) studios by the hand of Bj?rn Engelmann (Rammstein, Meshuggah, In Flames, The Hives, Soilwork, Backyard Babies,...).