French cosmic doom masters MONOLITHE have announced that they have completed work on their upcoming new album, Monolithe IV.

The band's composer, Sylvain Begot, comments: "We feel that this new single song album, clocking at 57 minutes, contains very, very strong material and we can't wait to let it be heard. People who enjoyed our previous endeavors will be blown away, both music-wise and sound-wise."

Originally released a decade ago, the debut album from Monolithe is being reissued by Debemur Morti Productions. This new edition of Monolithe I, recorded, mixed and mastered in March 2003 at RR Studio by Marc Canlers and Sylvain Bégot, will be released as a noble digipack CD and will include additional liner notes as well as complete new artwork courtesy of Norwegian artist Robert Høyem from At The Ends. The front cover can be seen here.

Band lineup on Monolithe I:

Richard Loudin: Vocals

Sylvain Bégot: Lead & Rhythm Guitars, Keyboards, Devices

Benoît Blin: Rhythm Guitars

Nicolas Chevrollier: Lead Guitars

Marc Canlers: Bass

This enhanced and remastered version will be available by the end of August.

Furthermore, Debemur Morti Productions will reissue the entire Monolithe back catalogue: Monolithe I, Monolithe II and Monolithe Zero (which will feature Interlude Premier and Interlude Second as well as bonus material). These reissues will come as classy digipack CDs, will include additional liner notes and complete new artwork courtesy of Norwegian artist Robert Høyem from At The Ends. Robert is already known for crafting the cover of Monolithe's third opus, Monolithe III.

Monolithe III is streaming in its entirety on the label's Bandcamp page here and is currently available worldwide in digipack CD through your best local purveyor or through the label's webshop.