Label: Broken Record Music Club

Released 11/14/2025

Monarch is a local rock band from Bloomington, Illinois, that unapologetically takes charge with their music. The band consists of lead vocalist and guitarist Blain Martin, drummer Mark Riesenberg and bassist Sam McCullers. Their sophomore album promises varying types of heavy music and political, frustrated themes of coming into one’s own. The trio titled their new album “BRICK!,” and the music sure hits you like one. Every song is unique to the band, with a sense of whiplash from crazy transitions from nu metal to shoegaze-type sounds. Before all the grimy and ominous descriptors of this album, it was born to be heard live.

Track listing:

1. Nicotine
2. Get Up!
3. Claybrain
4. Drought
5. Nightshift
6. Tally Hall ft. Bigelow T
7. Hue
8. Killswitch
9. Rabies
10. PRDS
11. Inciteful Violence ft. MacLeto
12. Collide
13. Data Track