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Urlo’s (Ufomammut) solo project The Mon releases second single and video »Mayhem« from first album »Songs Of Abandon« of two-album series!

The Mon, solo project by Ufomammut vocalist/bassist Urlo, premiere the second single and video »Mayhem« taken from the new album »Songs Of Abandon«, the first of two-album series »Embrace The Abandon«.

»Songs Of Abandon« is scheduled for release on November 7th, 2025 via Supernatural Cat.

Tracklist:
01. Smiling Dog
02. Two Stones
03. The Hidden Ghost
04. Hourglass
05. The Moon & The Devil
06. Mayhem
07. Little Bird
08. The Fluorescent Sand
09. Beautiful Star
10. Your Eyes

Courtesy of Audible Music:

»Embrace The Abandon« is the new project by THE MON, the solo vision of Urlo, vocalist/bassist of the long-running Italian heavy-psychedelic trio Ufomammut, as well as the co-founder of the internationally renowned poster art collective Malleus Rock Art Lab and of the independent label Supernatural Cat.

THE MON’s »Embrace The Abandon« is structured in two complementary chapters – »Songs Of Abandon« and »Songs Of Embrace« – the project depicting a journey of duality: loss and surrender on one side, acceptance and rebirth on the other. The first offering was the single and video Your Eyes, which closes »Songs Of Abandon«, and today, THE MON shares another new single »Mayhem« alongside an animated video, created by Malleus Rock Art Lab.

Urlo states on the song: “»Mayhem« is a furious piece, voice and guitar joined together to scream what our world has become: a great chaos in which every day we sink deeper and deeper. The lyrics tell of what happens around us: the sky turning more and more into hell, those who should guide us blinded by power, holding the lightning bolts that will lead us to destruction, without realizing that it will also be their fate.The chaos surrounding us is a light that explodes, a star shining in the hands of those who cannot see anything but the vortex of chaos itself.


Photo by Francesca De Franceschi Manzoni

Today more than ever we cannot remain silent: we need to shout against the evil that devours us, against the indifference that is dragging us toward the abyss. »Mayhem« is not just a song, it is a necessary cry, rage turning into resistance, the voice that breaks the silence before it is too late.”

Stream THE MON’s new single »Mayhem« HERE.

Watch the video for »Mayhem« HERE.

Where Ufomammut projects massive, otherworldly soundscapes, THE MON offers a more vulnerable and introspective experience. The music moves through shadowy electronic landscapes, ambient textures, and hypnotic dark folk, always guided by an emotional core that searches for meaning, balance, and transformation.

The name THE MON evokes several layers of meaning: a contraction of “demon,” “monk,” and the Japanese word 門 (mon, meaning “gate”), a symbolic passage toward altered states of consciousness and inner truth. This duality of light and dark, sacred and profane, runs through the entire project.

The first chapter of THE MON’s »Embrace The Abandon« is »Songs Of Abandon«, perhaps the most intimate and vulnerable work Urlo has ever created. Born in a moment of solitude and personal darkness, the album originated from a radical exercise: writing one song a day, for nine consecutive days, using only acoustic guitar and voice. Later, these sketches were shaped into fully realized tracks, with lyrics and subtle layers of sound – not to overwhelm, but to underline the fragile, raw atmosphere that pervades them. The result is a stripped-down, emotionally charged collection that embodies an inner search: the power of music as a tool to face abandonment, to dig into oneself, and ultimately to glimpse the possibility of an embrace.

»Songs Of Abandon« was written, performed, recorded, mixed, and mastered by Urlo at The Howl, Italy, between 2023 and 2025, and as with all Supernatural Cat releases, completed with artwork by the Malleus Rock Art Collective.

With »Embrace The Abandon«, THE MON reaffirms itself as one of the most personal and uncompromising projects. It is a body of work that fuses vulnerability and strength, speaking directly to the listener with sincerity, leading them through shadow towards light. An intimate yet powerful sound experience, intertwining the minimalism of acoustic folk with the dark, visionary tension that has always defined Urlo’s artistic path.

The second chapter, »Songs Of Embrace«, is an instrumental counterpart – darker, ambient, and ritualistic – and it will be unveiled in the Spring of 2026.

»Songs Of Abandon« will be released digitally, on CD, and on vinyl – with both a standard LP pressing and a limited pressing of 100 copies – on November 7th. Those who preorder the limited edition of »Songs Of Abandon« will have early access to an advance preorder of »Songs Of Embrace« as well. Find preorders at the Supernatural Cat webshop HERE.

Bojan Bidovc // music enthusiast, promoter, misanthrop and sometimes a journalist as well

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