Mono Inc.: Live (2015) [Blu-ray]

For years our fans have been asking for a live Blu-ray and a live album, yet the answer remained the same: Someday it will happen, but we are not ready yet. We did not hesitate for distrust of our performance or our playing abilities, we simply felt too young and too verdant for this step. A live Blu-ray? Only the big and established bands are releasing Blu-rays – bands, we have always looked up to. No, we felt a far cry from ready!

Recent years have been turbulent. Restless, hungry for success, and also a bit naive, we raced from city to city, from studio to studio, and from interview to interview. You fail to realize how things around you change, when you never stop, even for just a moment, but there was no time for that.

Until that fateful night in Texas in September 2014: the last notes of the new album „Terlingua“ had been recorded, as the four of us sat around the fire, admiring the starry, endless sky and sharing stories from last ten years of MONO INC.

We remembered a gig with a mere two paying guests back in 2009 in a little pub in Brunswig, Germany. We remembered nights we drove non-stop in a van, sharing the cargo hold with our equipment as the budget would not allow for a hotel. We remembered an icy backstage, frozen beer, and the worst chili con carne of our lives, back then in another small club in Osnabruck, Germany – precisely those hardships and challenges every young band has to endure.

But we also remembered our first Top 10 album in the German charts in 2012 and the subsequent tour through larger venues.

In retrospect, the album „After the War“ was likely the so-called breakthrough, as we have proudly witnessed every MONO INC. album since reach the Top 10 and somehow the venues didn’t shrink either.

Slowly, it began to dawn on us, that the statement „we are not ready for a live Blu-ray, yet“ no MONO INC. Fan would believe anymore. And neither did we!
Inspired by this epiphany, we added fuel to the fire again, poured another round of tequila and emailed our label this two-liner:

NOW we are ready! Let’s finally do this “goddamn“ live Blu-ray!

Треклист:
Disc 1: The Movie
01. Arabia
02. This Is The Day
03. Temple Of The Torn
04. On The Bench With Martin
05. Never-Ending Love Song
06. Kein Weg Zu Weit
07. Heile, Heile Segen
08. My Sick Mind TV
09. Katha About The Early Years
10. It Never Rains
11. Symphony Of Pain
12. Gothic Queen
13. Martin Backstage
14. Chasing Cars
15. An Klaren Tagen
16. In My Heart
17. Katha's Life On Tour
18. Drum Battle (Part I)
19. Drum Battle (Part II)
20. Carl's Mood Room
21. Forgiven
22. Revenge
23. Showering With Manuel
24. After The War
25. Mondschein
26. Get Some Sleep
27. Tag X
28. Voices Of Doom

Disc 2: The Show
01. Arabia
02. This Is The Day
03. Temple Of The Torn
04. Never-Ending Love Song
05. Kein Weg Zu Weit
06. Heile, Heile Segen
07. My Sick Mind TV
08. It Never Rains
09. Symphony Of Pain
10. Gothic Queen
11. Chasing Cars
12. An Klaren Tagen
13. In My Heart
14. Drum Battle (Part I)
15. Drum Battle (Part II)
16. Forgiven
17. Revenge
18. After The War
19. Mondschein
20. Get Some Sleep
21. Tag X
22. Voices Of Doom