The Monks: Black Monk Time - Spectrum Culture

The Monks: Black Monk Time - Spectrum Culture

The Monks were a weird band in the ‘60s and they still are today. When looking at a band portrait, it’s easy to wonder what possessed the five-piece group to dress the way they did (black robes, tied ropes around their necks with partially shaved heads) while playing a very loud, novel type of music in the mid-’60s that was often seen as disarming and unsettling. Though the Gelnhausen, West Germany-based band’s sole album, 1966’s Black Monk Time…