Video Premiere: The Mon ‘Ritual Of Night Violence’ – From ‘Songs Of Embrace’ That Drops 6th March

Today The Shaman is thrilled to premiere the new video from The Mon, the deeply personal solo project of Urlo, known for his role as vocalist and bassist of Italian heavy-psychedelic titans Ufomammut. The track Ritual Of Night Violence is drawn from the forthcoming album Songs Of Embrace, the second and concluding chapter of the Embrace The Abandon two-album series. Where that first instalment stripped things back to raw vulnerability, this companion piece plunges into murkier, more ritualistic waters – and this movement sits right at the heart of that descent.

The accompanying video, conceived and filmed by Urlo and Die-Go, then edited by Malleus Rock Art Lab, is a genuinely unsettling piece of visual work that’s difficult to articulate in words. It’s creepy, disorienting, and the kind of imagery that burrows under your skin and lingers long after the screen goes dark. It’s a perfect marriage of sound and vision, mirroring the track’s suffocating layers of synthesisers and its slow, hypnotic pull into nocturnal isolation. This isn’t a video you simply watch; it’s one you endure.

About the composition, Urlo reveals…

‘Ritual Of Night Violenceis one of the most central tracks on Songs Of Embrace. It unfolds as a ritual, a passage in which anger is not released outward, but gathered, contained, and slowly transformed. Built on dense layers of synthesizers, the track moves through one of the darkest moments of our journey: a nocturnal space of isolation, where images accumulate inside the mind without leaving room to breathe: A continuous, silent violence is exercised on perception itself, until the boundary between dream and reality becomes indistinguishable, as if existing in a state of permanent darkness.

Here, violence is not an act but a condition, something that circulates, inhabits bodies, and persists even after the one who carries it has disappeared. The only possible form of salvation turns inward. A minimal, fragile sound, like that of a buried music box, capable of reactivating memory and interrupting the cycle. Not an escape, but an awakening, the first step toward finding the strength to remain, to resist, and to rise again.’

Now hit play below and surrender to the suffocating darkness that is Ritual Of Night Violence…

More On The Mon & ‘Songs Of Embrace’

Embrace The Abandon is the two-album series by The Mon, the solo vision of Urlo, vocalist and 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.

Where Ufomammutproject massive, otherworldly and heavy soundscapes, The Mon offers a more vulnerable and introspective experience. As the music progresses, it 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 Monevokes 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 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.

Following the November 2025 release of the sombre, acoustic guitar-driven Songs Of Abandon – perhaps the most intimate and vulnerable work Urlo has ever created – its companion album, Songs Of Embrace, is now ready to be heard. Songs Of Embrace is an instrumental counterpart – darker, ambient, and ritualistic – expands the emotional landscape of the series, rather than closing it.

While the first part explored abandonment and loss, this one focuses on presence, proximity, and the physical act of staying. It is the answering breath, the inner voice. The album avoids resolution and comfort, embracing slowness, repetition, and bodily tension. It is not just music, it is a stream of consciousness, an inner search, a way of inhabiting what weighs without letting go.

While Songs Of Abandon is a collection of songs, nine tracks written in nine days, Songs Of Embrace is a continuous musical flow. It is a movement that changes, grows, erupts, slows down, settles, and rises again. Like the sea, it’s calm and still one moment, then moved by a simple breath of wind, suddenly breaking into a storm. The pieces are deeply interconnected, like embraces: some bring comfort, others carry pain; Compositions meant to be listened to in one continuous breath, allowing yourself to be held, rocked, and sometimes pushed away, just like in an embrace.

Songs Of Embrace Tracklist:
01. Invocation Of The Abyss
02. Three Nails, One Heart
03. Incantation
04. The Sigil
05. A Pearlescent Pulse Of Light
06. Ritual Of Night Violence
07. Sovereign Of Silence
08. Embers Of Calendula
09. Echoes Of The Drowned
10. Embrace The Abandon

Written, performed, produced, recorded, mixed, and mastered by Urloat The Howl, Italy.

Songs Of Embrace, the second part of the Embrace The Abandon two-album series, releases on the 6th March through Supernatural Cat. Pre-orders are available now on various vinyl pressings and bundles on the label’s webstore, and for digital downloads, head over to Bandcamp.

Label: Supernatural Cat
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