Diskograafia / Discography

After Infinite Years, 2024

After Infinite Years album cover

Recorded: Endrik Salak and Magnus Kokk at Heliruum
Produced and mixed: Magnus Kokk
Mastered: Are Kangus
Lyrics: Mehis Meos and Anton Klaussen
Art conception: Mehis Meos
Album art, logos and layout: Raul Kulles

This EP is dedicated to
our lost but never forgotten friend
and band member Mihkel Orek

1. Before the Dawn

(instrumental)

2. After Infinite Years

From nowhere he came
To turn the page
From love and care, the bloodlust was made
Lips sewn shut, but can't tell you why

Maybe someday you'll understand
Secret city of flames shouts his name
Was built with stone but soon to be ash
Creator of life cries before

After infinite years of sorrow

Cry!

Lie, close your eyes and think
Find, in sea of heads you sink
Cry, tears will never dry
Die, in your endless dream

Die!

Leave this place
Take what you hold dear
Leave this place
Make your own new home

Climb so high to claim your dreams
Made it to the top, how hollow it feels

Now fall down, go back to reality
Accept your faith, what's left of the sanity
Sold your head, for price of agony
Suffer for eternity, mistakes of nobody
Take a last look and close the door
Mourn it's death some more and more
You have burned your world and memories
Flashback of life leaves echo to remember

Bring back the life

Roots of light, destroyed by endless time

Lie, close your eyes and think
Find, in sea of heads you sink
Cry, tears will never dry
Die, in your endless dream
Learned all the hate, bringing the piece together
Now it's too late, facing your doom forever

Leave this place
Take what you hold dear
Leave this place
Fly away for forever

From nowhere he came
To turn the page
From love and care, the bloodlust was made
Lips sewn shut, secrets of the art

Maybe now you'll understand
Secret city of dust howled his name
Was built with stone but now to be ash
Creator of life cries before

After Infinite years of sorrow

3. Slaying the Air

Through fog I come, blinded by ozone
Searching for the light, hiding in disguise
Lost in my mind, the peace I will never find
Pressing on forward, lost in this cycle forever

I can feel the devastation in the air
My camouflage loses its power

The clear image unstable, I crab the cloak
And hide within, all I want is just peace and quiet
To have my own place to be
Everything that promised to me, were a fuckin' lie

Die, I’m sending you back to hell
Die, I've done it all again

Give it back to me
Give me power that I own
Those things that belong to me
Or I am going to take your last drop of blood
From flesh to bones
From bone to ash
From ash to air
I'm slaying the air

Slaying the air
Forced to fight
Slaying the air
Lost in the dark

I’m slaying the air, the better life
Drop of blood lost in the night
Fight and fight until it dies

It takes some time, to overcome our greatest fears
Cry of the wicked hurts my ears
Found the right spot, the ghost is there
Getting now close, the end is near

Can you bear my thoughts?
Can you shield my wound?
Can you ease my pain?
Can you take my life?

Yes that you can

Die, Die!

4. War of Eternity

Unleash the chaos
Raise the siren to alarm us
It’s time to fight
Until we die
Don't believe what you see
Hear what you want to hear
Countdown of our time
Raise your fist to the sky

Can you see it’s the war of eternity!

Burn down your hopes
Discard all your thoughts
What's right or wrong
There's no answer to it all
Protect what’s yours
Hide the world from those
Who feel the pain of our foes
It’s their burning ground

Fight until your last drop of blood!

Take your first shot
Destroy all they've got
Protect what's yours
Make it up for time lost
Strike the enemy's heart
Let it drain in mud
Sacrifice their lives
For belief not on your mind

Do not stop until you have no breath in you!

Cut down their heads
Slice at their legs
Puncture through the artery
But that's not enough butchery
Prisoners of war align
Torture them alive
What's yours is mine
Enjoy the ride of your life

We serve the light to live in the dark!

Gather all your power
Feed on your hate
Down they fall
Like crust down the hall

Take your last shot
Aim with eyes shut
Protect what's yours
Take your last shot

Through thorns and mud
I could have never known
At the precipice of dawn
My mouth is filled with tar
Gunpowder at dusk
It feels so unjust
Attack me if you must
Before I crumble

... to dust

Show no hesitation
Gather all your hate
We got the war to win
For our patronage of sin

Strike the enemy's heart
Let it drain in mud
Sacrifice their lives
For belief not on your mind
Don't believe what you see
Hear what you want to hear
Countdown of our time
Raise your fist to the sky

Fight until your last drop of blood!

Alert and on your toes
Discard all your thoughts
What's right or wrong
There's no rules in war
Protect what’s yours
Bullets in the rain
Protect what's yours
By inflicting more pain

Can you see it’s the war of eternity!

5. A Flick of Spark

Modest, yet plentiful, was once their home
Sharing, and spilling blood, among their own
Greed has devastated their form of soul
Tool for solution, a child now knows

Times enjoyed, the purest
Indelible care now waned out cold
Confusion grasped the moment
For chaos and guile to take control

First I must be silent says
Feeble mind with ill intent
Love is longing for absence
It sings thoughts beyond repent

Devious force drives the boy
Crawling on all-fours, filled with joy
Gentle shade covers his ploy
But there are no shadows in the void

They are fighting again
Objects looking for a place to land

River of fuel has no end
Searching for hollows, it flows and bends
To stop it I can use lighter in my hand
A flick of spark, for peace this will do

Wringing out life just gives me the chills
Flame and ash, my right hand and will
Log of flesh, heat melts your skin

Fire and screams, music to my ears
Taste of your torture lasts for years
The flames are kind for withering disease

Bullets or knife are too fast to kill
I chose a flick of spark to alight the sins
Darkness of misdeeds was wiped with ease

Modest, yet plentiful, was once their home
Sharing, and spilling blood, among their own
More soon to be spilled in another town
He will continue this until he is truly alone

Eternal Walk, 2016

Eternal Walk album cover

Recorded and mixed: Joonas Murand
at Estonian Academy of Music and Theatre, Heliruum
Mastered: Siim Mäesalu
Lyrics: Mehis Meos and Anton Klaussen
Artwork: Kairi Matt

1. The Eternal Walk

I'm searching for an answer, deep inside my mind
Don't know what to expect, am I dreaming in hell?

Looking in
My past and sins
Dream within
It would be better to be unseen

I'm walking on the endless road, to seek some answers
What I've been looking for
Taking down obstacles where I used to fall
Why I don't know

Risking with my own life
Crossing the line
Falling in from high
Why i even try

Hearing things
Deep within
In my head
I have sinned

This is the eternal road where I used to walk
In my deepest dreams
Punished by my own mistakes
Left behind the past of my own sins
Now I'm free and forgiven
Things just got better before I realized it
It's the end of my journey
The end of my eternal walk

2. Time Trap

Space in form across the wall
Canyon of clock, step forth and open doors
Look into the malevolent abyss, under the waves of time
Where drowned are you, last from your kind
Disappear from the very god, misplaced from the rest

I'm your fate
I'm your pain, you die in vain
I'm your fate
Entrapped in clay, flaws of me got your best

At bay, forced to stay
Condemned

And grey vicious beast, always meant to be second best
Look into the malevolent abyss, under the waves of time
Where drowned are you, last from your kind
Disappear from the unseen, few seconds to enslave

I'm your fate
I'm your dolor, that you despise
I'm your pain, and more
Entrapped in clay, from decay comes your test

Why you didn't listen to me
What I said before, everything begun
Now we are trapped in time
We are prisoners of the time trap

I'm your fate
I'm your pain that you desire
I'm your fate and more
Entrapped in clay, life is burning away

Now we are locked in past
There is no way to get out of this
Look into the malevolent abyss, under the waves of time
Where drowned are you, last from your kind
Disappear from the unseen, few minutes 'til death

Why you didn't listen to me
What I said before, everything begun
Now we are trapped in time
We are prisoners of the time trap

3. Counter-Thunder of the Past Conqueror

The azure, awake
Show me, my way
The flash, dismaying
The fear, sustained

The power is obtained by

Earth bleeder
Light stealer
Truth revealer
Echoes from the grave

Beyond the skies my heart gets filled
Although the skies are gray
The sun calls out my name
While I keep dancing on empty streets

My hands cutting the air once more
And direction of wind changes
Now I rezone again what's mine
With dark thunder by my side

I've forgotten my past for now
But I go on searching
Because of my reflection
It spells and strikes decay

As long as my body can reach the storm
The remains of the Moon are blown away
When Earth cracks in half and shows my eye
The collapsing of the stars will free my mind

As long as my body can reach the storm
The remains of the Moon are blown away
The Ruler's screech breaks a hole in the sky
Breath of the sinner and wrath combined

I play with your soul, and burn down your home
Not much of me is known, due to I was never born
I play with your soul, and burn down your home
If desired to leave this world, I sure can help

I can help, can help, can help
For you to die and fade
The merciless fate
Obliged to pay, burn in dark flames
I can help you to die if that's what you desire
Thunder bites your life, starting your demise
Light of yesterday, swept away by gray
Blood of gods now rain and one heart bears the pain

As long as my body can reach the storm
The remains of the Moon are blown away
When Earth cracks in half and shows my eye
The collapsing of the stars will free my mind

As long as my body can reach the storm
The remains of the Moon are blown away
The Ruler's screech breaks a hole in the sky
Breath of the sinner and wrath combined

4. Fall Flat Success

Dear god, can you hear me cry?
Bless me, with the endless night

I judge, as I see fit
It's time, to accept what's mine

Hunt me, it will hunt me, until I break
It sees me, and feels my every breath
Entangled by the heart, end the flow
Forgetting all the things I used to do
Whispers from inside will devour
Crawlers from the night eat my soul

Defeated, I lay
Naked in misery
Sun shines on decay
Eyes dream in black of night

My gift, to see through the eyes
Will fade, and again I roll the dice
I judge, as I see fit
It's time, to take eternal walk

Hunt me, it will hunt me, until I break
It sees me, and feels my every breath
Entangled by the heart, end the flow
Forgetting all the things I used to do
Whispers from inside will devour
Crawlers from the night eat my soul

I hoped you, would stay
Sing me sweet memories
All songs now, I have
Are rotting in my head

Defeated, I lay
Naked in misery
Sun shines on decay
Eyes dream in black of night

5. Stories From No One

This ends, before anything starts
My smile, frowned upon like core of the dark
Sold, to nothingness the bearer of my deeds
Hold, my secrets so deep to better be untold

I have no stories only hatred to receive
My wish polluted and mind has been deceived
My heart long dead, but soul wanders alive
In my madness to abyss I assuredly dive

Dive down, to the night
Dive down, to the night

My gift brings pain not joy
To nothingness the bearer of my deeds
I’m alone, no smile to show, nowhere to turn
My gift brings pain not joy

I have no stories only hatred to receive
My body’s beaten and mind has been deceived
My heart long gone and soul fades away
In my madness to abyss I assuredly dive

Dive down and suffocate

I have no stories, only hatred
My wish forgotten, only hatred
I have no stories, only madness

I have no stories, only hatred
My wish forgotten, only hatred
I have no stories, only madness
My will is broken, hatred

Not, in, this, life, I can be more precise

Blood moon, the monster

We are gone together
And the echo is silent
Ravage and pillage
The burden I am forced to bear

Not, in, life, or death, I can love my curse

Biograafia / Biography

Nuclear Monarch started out as a hobby band by two friends Jaak (bass) and Mehis (drums) who not long before had just started playing their instruments. They decided to move forward to create a death/black metal band with influences from industrial music. Soon they found Karl (synth) and the trio started rehearsing with different guitarists and vocalists they knew among their friends. Unfortunately no one suitable enough was found. Due to frequent changes in the band and lack of motivation, serious songwriting only began in the wake of 2010. By that time, Nuclear Monarch was already a six-piece band with new members Marko (guitar), Richard (guitar) and Anton (vocals), who backed everything up with his powerful growls. For a while, the newly-formed band rehearsed in Telliskivi rooms and by autumn they had moved to Mustjõe Proovikas to write new material of which some songs are still played even today.

The first demo was recorded at the end of the same year in Sound Fortress OÜ studio. After some time Richard was replaced by Magnus and the band was ready for further action.

Anton (vocals), Jaak (bass), Magnus (guitar), Marko (guitar), Karl (synth) and Mehis (drums) with all their different musical tastes continued to shape Nuclear Monarch into a death-doom metal act with massive riffs, crushing melodies and songs of both fast and slow tempos. After a few years Marko decided to devote himself to the service of Estonian Navy, which left little time for band activities since newfound duties included time abroad months at a time and thus was replaced by Marten, who took over his position as a guitarist. By the year 2015 Nuclear Monarch recorded their first EP titled "Eternal Walk" including 5 songs, all of which having a slightly different approach to their shaped death/doom metal genre, containing slow doom metal pieces and also fast paced industrial metal riffs.

During 2018 Karl and Marten also had to leave for different reasons. Search for new members began again. Only after a short time the new synth player to replace Karl, Dmitri was found and from there on the band decided to continue as a 5-member group until a new potential member for the second guitar shows up.

Meanwhile the band found a new rehearsal room which provided more opportunities for active rehearsal and recording.

Later the same year Jaak changed his lifestyle and quit the band of his own accord, leaving the void of bass open for options. A new candidate Mihkel was found among friends and he gladly joined the band to support their heavy music with his handling of the low notes.

2020 was a sad end of the year when the band learned that Mihkel had left this world. It was a heavy blow for both their hearts and their music. His legacy is recorded in a future release. For a time the band was modest with their activities due to the loss of a member and the rising pandemic. This period was mostly filled with production and studio work. By 2022 the old members Marko and Marten were back in the band and after a friendly reunion Nuclear Monarch was once again ready for action.

Nuclear Monarch’s musical influences range from Rammstein to Depressed Mode. The band has performed live mainly in Tallinn (Estonia) and Riga (Latvia) among other towns in Estonia.

At present time 2023 a new self-produced EP has been in the works since late 2019 and should finally get released this year.