Monkeys on Mars: Mars Red Sky and Monkey 3 Announce New Collaboration
Mars Red Sky aren’t strangers to collaborating with other artists and even full bands. Their 2023 album, Dawn of the Dusk (review here), followed through on a collab with Queen of the Meadow that began on the aptly-named Mars Red Sky & Queen of the Meadow EP (review here), and of course they paired for an EP with Year of No Light (discussed here) way back in 2012, so joining forces isn’t unprecedented. Doing so with an outfit like long-running progressive heavy instrumentalists Monkey3, however, is.
Thus Monkeys on Mars. Think of the textures! Think of the keyboards communing with vocal melodies. Think of two bands who both know so well what they’re about bringing together ideas and seeing what sticks. Think of them doing it live.
I’ve heard none of this at this point, but yeah, sign me up for that EP out Oct. 17. Will hope to have more to come on this one before then. For now, this came from socials:
Hey there,
Stoked and proud to introduce you to special project MONKEYS ON MARS, a sonic journey with our long time friends monkey3 ! It fuses our two universes. This project will perform gigs and festivals thanks to Doomstar Bookings and 3C. We will also release a fully collaborative EP on October 17th 2025 via Mrs Red Sound with support from Napalm Records. We are working on the songs together, not each one their side. It’s an exciting stuff that we are dying to reveal!!
The best The Doom Dad wrote this to describe MONKEYS ON MARS:
“Imagine a uchony in which January 31st 1961 space mission didn’t quite go according to the plan. Ham, the chimpanzee, drifted through Space and found shelter on Mars – soon joined by other monkeys. The homonids colony thus created, developed its own civilisation, freeing itself from the very rules of gravity. The music created by Monkeys on Mars sounds like the soundtrack to this strange story.”
Photo credit Cedric Mathias.
MONKEY3 is:
Walter – Drums
Jalil – Bass
Boris – Guitars
dB – Keys and Sounds
MARS RED SKY are:
Julien Pras : guitar, vocals
Jimmy Kinast : bass, vocals
Mathieu “Matgaz” Gazeau : drums, vocals
https://www.facebook.com/monkey3band/
https://www.instagram.com/monkey3band
https://monkey-3.bandcamp.com/
https://monkey3official.com/
http://www.facebook.com/marsredskyband/
https://marsredsky.bigcartel.com/
http://www.marsredsky.net
https://mrsredsound.com/
