Okay, so I hit play on this expecting another nu-metal revival cash-grab, and honestly, Monnekÿn caught me off guard. “Speak With My Ghost” opens their EP The Hundredth Night like a door creaking somewhere in a house you thought was empty. Seven musicians, French, clearly raised on Korn tapes and Deftones records with a Dr. Dre beat tucked in their back pocket, and somehow it all gels into something that feels lived-in rather than borrowed. The drums hit with this slow, suffocating weight — like someone pressing a hand down on your chest — and the two vocalists play tug-of-war between a scream that tears the paint off the walls and a croon that sounds genuinely wrecked.
What sticks with me, days later, is how the song sits in its own discomfort instead of trying to wriggle out of it. Grief and those looping, obsessive thoughts you can’t shake — that’s the emotional core here, and the arrangement mirrors it: tension coils, snaps, then folds right back on itself, so you end up circling the same feeling the narrator is stuck in. Recorded out in Seine-et-Marne with Cédric Guesdon and Joey Livreau, mixed by Niko HK, the whole thing sounds massive and a little unhinged, scratches and samples curling through the riffs like static. With “SPEAK WITH MY GHOST” dropping July 3rd, Monnekÿn just planted a flag, and it’s a dark, cinematic one worth paying attention to.
