Monks: The Transatlantic Feedback (2007)

First avant-garde beat band in pop history

The monks were 5 American GIs in cold war Germany who billed themselves as the anti-Beatles; they were heavy on feedback, nihilism and electrical banjo. They had strange haircuts, dressed in black, mocked the military and rocked harder than any of their mid-sixties counterparts while managing to basically invent industrial, kraut rock, heavy metal, punk and techno music.

• Release Date: 2007-10-04
• Runtime: 1h 40min
• Production Company: Play Loud! Productions
• Production Country: Germany
• Directors: Dietmar Post, Lucia Palacios.