Monks
Musician and rock connoisseur Julian Cope has called The Monks’ album Black Monk Time (1966) “one of the most chilling electrifying freakouts of all time.” The band’s improbable story resembles fiction, but it’s all amazing fact.
Formed by former American servicemen in Cold War Germany, the quintet cut their teeth in the same Hamburg “beat clubs” that spawned The Beatles. These self-styled “anti-Beatles” sported an austere look – tonsured heads, black garb, knotted rope ties – and flashed an... Read More
- Genre:
- Rock, Hard Rock, Proto-Punk, Garage Rock
- City Of Origin:
- Stuttgart, Germany
- Formed Date:
- 1964
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